LogFAQs > #965050796

I think some people care if there is a random female, trans, Indian or Spanish NPC in a game. And then there is another set of people who pretend to care and are very loud about it.

But by and large it's a laughable #1 goal for a video game company and is being focused on entirely to try and win points back from people who think Blizzard is a company plagued by socially archiac management. Further, the people who don't care I imagine don't care at all, generally, because to them they're playing games not thinking about that at all and wouldn't care if the characters were all genderless and raceless triangles and squares if said triangles and squares were cool character designs.

I wouldn't say SEP is picking on Maria per se. SEP just has a way of not being able to see the forest for the trees when it comes to arguments. Probably doesn't even realize that the stuff Tom and GMUN are going into ("this is important to me because ___") are in fact very different points than "you used we instead of I omg!!!" No one gives a shit about whether "we" encompasses literally every gamer because that clearly wasn't the point, and trying to point out "heh I won!" when this is pointed out was hilariously oblivious. The point was that many many people do not care about this at all (even if it's not 100% of gamers, doesn't matter, it can be significantly less than 100% to be a valid discussion point) and it's a dumb #1 priority for game design because of that.