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Having women in the game is fine (e.g. Kat in Reach was well written). I've written women into my own games. The issue is artificial writing and lack of awareness.
It's clear that the devs needed to force more diversity into the story, so they made the new main character a girl, as if everything MUST be 50/50, evenly distributed against all logic.
Then they use the excuse of "lore" to make a poorly written character that immediately berates the player, even though it's contextually ridiculous.
The end result is a cliche girl boss telling the player how terrible they are, in a game where your (primarily) male audience is already very skeptical of forced social politics. But the devs/leads never stopped and said "Hmm, maybe the end result here is not achieving our goals of winning back our primary demographic."
It's tone deaf on top of being poorly executed. And this hurts branding, it hurts sales, and will destroy a studio's reputation (whatever's left of it anyway)
As someone who'd worked in gamedev a LONG time, let me explain the conversation that the devs (probably) had when writing this character:
"Let's add some character development."
"Cool yea, that's what smart writers do!"
"Yea! Maybe one of the marines you save is an ODST and, check this out, according to ChatGPT they don't like Spartans, so let's have them hate the Master Chief at the start but then the player EARNS their respect!!"
"OMG that's so great!! That's character development. But wait, how do we also add diversity!"
"Ok check this out! Let's make the ODST a woman!"
"OMG that's perfect!"
"But what if the Halo fans don't like this?"
"Who cares, they'll buy whatever slop we sell them."
"Yay! More money for us and our amazing ideas!"
"What a great day of work. Oh no, it's 4:30pm, I need to be at the No Kings protest!"
"Ok have fun! See you tomorrow!"
The Halo devs have apparently decided that the MAJORITY of marines should now be women.
I'm fine w occasionally seeing a woman marine, whatever, but we're starting to enter clown world territory here.
The fans got Deadpool off the ground so many years ago. Yesterday, 10 years after the first film and exactly 2 years after Deadpool & Wolverine, I felt so lucky to be on the #SDCC floor with everyone whose unapologetic devotion brings so much joy to this world.
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Beyond the Lifestream: Evercold 8-player raid series
Keybound Brawler: Gold Saucer typing game
There's a lot to look forward to alongside your adventures in Evercold!
The Evercold Collector's Edition also includes:
✨ Emote: Entreat Crystal
💎 Bastion Weapon: Crystal Skyltborg
All three in-game items are available in the Digital Collector's Edition!