Current Events > MS urges devs not to create female characters w/exaggerated body proportions

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A game doesn't include women with exaggerated proportions.

Gamers: that's outrageous! There are real women who look like that! Why are you discriminating against them?

A game includes women who are plain, average looking, and/or muscular (like Abby, who was based on an actual person).

Gamers: get that shit out of my videogames! This is supposed to be fantasy, not real life!

Microsoft:
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Microsoft:
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Only an incel would be bothered by these guidelines.

Imagine being a real life woman and being told that you aren't a realistic woman by these gaming companies.

even non-incels are bothered

Press X to doubt.

Microsoft:
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People who have sex also like to see attractive people in videogames.

Not everyones idea of attractive people is grotesquely large breasts.

That's stupid. Shut up M$, just because you're micro and soft doesn't mean I can't be macro and hard.

There's volumes of literature and research about the unreasonable (and often unhealthy) standards and expectations models and modeling set for media consumers.

Stellar Blade might use a real woman, but she's not exactly a realistic woman to portray, and that's probably why it's caught so much flak.

There's nothing terribly untoward in Microsoft's guidelines, in that light.

Horizon FW is full of fatties and they made Aloy ugly.

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Get fucked Microsoft. I'm so glad your gaming division is utterly tanking. Normally more competition is a good thing, but you've been a cancer on console gaming for two decades now, always the tip of the spear on nearly every horrible change to console gaming.

Also gotta love how no one ever complains about all the dudes who could only look so insanely jacked as they do in games if they were downing tons of steroids daily, but a regular healthy woman w/ nice T&A is "unrealistic" and gets a legion of critics.

Also gotta love how no one ever complains about all the dudes who could only look so insanely jacked as they do in games if they were downing tons of steroids daily, but a regular healthy woman w/ nice T&A is "unrealistic" and gets a legion of critics.

They want more female gamers, and this is what they think will draw them in.

So when gamers say they don't want to play a certain kind of game they're being attempted to be shut down, de-platformed and slandered as extremists that's were the shit hits the fan.

i have news for anyone who thinks female gamers don't like big tits and anime and vtubers and all that

It's so hard to have discussions on things like this because so many gamers see all these things in absolute terms.

If you say we should try to have more female characters that aren't sexualized people go "Oh, so female game characters can NEVER be SEXY?"

If you say it's unrealistic to have games filled with female characters who all have tiny waists and giant boobs so maybe let's more variety of body types people go "Oh so if a REAL LIFE WOMAN has big boobs that means SHE'S NOT REALISTIC?"

If you say we should avoid female characters with no agency who serve only as damsels in distress for the male protagonist to save, people say "Oh so NO MAN can ever help ANY WOMAN or it's sexist?"

No one is expecting all games to follow all of the "rules" 100%. No one is saying games will be forced to follow them. There are no negative consequences for not following them. Are they even rules? More like suggestions. Seems to me like they're saying, hey, here are a bunch of guidelines, and maybe when you're making your games try to move a little bit in this direction? Thanks, we appreciate it.

It's like people are intentionally missing the point and reducing everything to the stupidest terms possible just so we can't have real discussions. It's exhausting.

Get fucked Microsoft. I'm so glad your gaming division is utterly tanking. Normally more competition is a good thing, but you've been a cancer on console gaming for two decades now, always the tip of the spear on nearly every horrible change to console gaming.

Also gotta love how no one ever complains about all the dudes who could only look so insanely jacked as they do in games if they were downing tons of steroids daily, but a regular healthy woman w/ nice T&A is "unrealistic" and gets a legion of critics.

Most people do tho >_> That's like saying "Not everyone's idea of a good desert is chocolate cake"

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What's the betting that all the men all look like male models while rocking brickhouse abs and biceps the size of their head?

But a woman with large tits is harmful to body identity.

That first things also harmful to body identity. Welcome to feminism 101. Turns out we care about men and harmful stereotypes about them, too.

Thing is men dont cry about it. I've never liked when people get offended on someone else's behalf when that group isn't even bothered by it.

And that's even giving the benefit of the doubt cause I only see it brought up as a counter argument to this.

My ex hated chocolate. And personally, Im more of a butt/hips/thighs/face person. You dont need big boobs to be attractive.

Microsoft:
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You're on the losing side

You're on the losing side

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Correct ideas always have to struggle against the wrong ones at the start.

:p

Your idea isnt correct tho. Prove to us that butts are better