Poll of the Day > Will the pleas for diversity in cast and content in gaming be ignored in 2022?

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Wii_U
01/07/22 12:31:27 PM
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https://www.destructoid.com/what-women-in-gaming-should-expect-2022/amp/
companies would be foolish to ignore that a little over half the population are female and most people are not cishet white men.

not hating cishet white men as I am one but the days of domination as an audience being catered to should be over. Everyone deserves to be appealed to.

I think 2022 is optimistic as far as diversity goes
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CoorsLight
01/07/22 1:05:18 PM
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Yawn
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teddy241
01/07/22 1:11:33 PM
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i think we are seeing a slight swing in the power pendulum. i also think you'll find a new america some day where we rewrite the books
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jiffdiff
01/07/22 3:07:13 PM
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Every race, gender and sexual identity should be assigned values in a random number generator weighted to their prevalence in the population, devs of every game should then run this when creating their characters and then we can have a fair distribution and people can stop talking about this.

Sure we'll get some weird stuff like trans black muslim KKK grand wizards in RDR3, but that's the price of fairness.
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Unbridled9
01/15/22 11:54:43 AM
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It's an irrelevant question.

Games take time to develop. Even if every game that started development in 2022 decided to fully kick the concept of diversity to the curb we wouldn't see anything about it until late 2023-early 2024. So we're basically looking at 2020 polities or so for these games meaning we'll likely see stuff still being diverse for another year or two simply because there won't have been time to change.

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Blightzkrieg
01/15/22 12:41:49 PM
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Unbridled9 posted...
It's an irrelevant question.

Games take time to develop. Even if every game that started development in 2022 decided to fully kick the concept of diversity to the curb we wouldn't see anything about it until late 2023-early 2024. So we're basically looking at 2020 polities or so for these games meaning we'll likely see stuff still being diverse for another year or two simply because there won't have been time to change.
Can't they just palette swap all the white characters to black, like Olimar in Smash Bros.

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lihlih
01/15/22 1:36:55 PM
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Games are already becoming more diverse though.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfRCAXgcd0

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joemodda
01/15/22 1:41:13 PM
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I literally could not care less about diversity in video games

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11110111011
01/15/22 1:56:09 PM
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joemodda posted...
I literally could not care less about diversity in video games

This.
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EvilMegas
01/15/22 2:03:28 PM
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What? People don't want to see white dudes with buzzcuts in games anymore?

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Unbridled9
01/15/22 3:12:17 PM
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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.

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