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Blightzkrieg posted...

Can't they just palette swap all the white characters to black, like Olimar in Smash Bros.

That only works if a game is designed a certain way. No one cares (from a design perspective I mean) if you add in a palette swap of a character in a game like LoL or even another character who is a PoC. However in a bigger budget game it requires a lot of model rework if your game wasn't already designed to have customizable characters at the least. Also potentially voice acting re-casts (you can't just change a boy to a girl and keep a male VA without at least some line changes), script altercations, re-recording lines, and other things like that. The assets generated likely can't be re-used at all and are, effectively, wasted money. A palette swap is one thing, especially if it leaves the 'base' character unchanged and everyone knows it's a costume. Actually CHANGING a character, though, takes a lot of work.