Annoying trends in PC gaming

[jfrost]

I honestly don't know how people can hate so much on the internet. I barely have time to mildly dislike stuff on the internet, let alone spend my time to rip on developers online.

Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. Perhaps it's just people that are really efficient in hating and their tiny chunks of hate add up to a huge blob of venom that gets to the devs.

I still couldn't put myself through that. I prefer to avoid early access and similar fads.

[flex wood]

Poor Ubisoft? They deserve a non-insignificant portion of what they get. Nobody deserves all of it, but they deserve some, and far more than most.

If you are talking about uplay, I agree. If you are referring to the whole kotaku witch hunt of them not having enough female protagonists, which is what I was thinking of when I made that post then no they honestly didn't deserve any of that. Playing as a female character in a video game isn't a civil right.

There is very little representation of female characters in video games, and it was more Ubisoft's attitude that adding women was this arduous task and not worth the effort. Because they can say "women are too hard to animate" but they'll still have prostitutes in the game, but can't make a generic female assassin.

I agree with you but they can't go back and add in characters as far as they were in development. It just doesn't work like that. Have you ever finished an Assassins Creed game? The end credits are usually about 30 minutes long. I guarantee they will have female assassins next game. I honestly don't understand why they didn't since they've been in every other asscreed with multiplayer besides not wanting to spend the money on the mocap.

[marurun]

I agree with you but they can't go back and add in characters as far as they were in development. It just doesn't work like that. Have you ever finished an Assassins Creed game? The end credits are usually about 30 minutes long. I guarantee they will have female assassins next game. I honestly don't understand why they didn't since they've been in every other asscreed with multiplayer besides not wanting to spend the money on the mocap.

Ubisofts protests about cost were possibly somewhat founded (though many have attempted to debunk those protests), but it is amazing they made it that far into development without realizing this might be an issue for a number of gamers. Their obliviousness to the issue and attitude about it later really made them stand out. They have become very much the poster child for several aspects of what's wrong with the games industry on the whole. I guess maybe Ubisoft would find that flattering, given that they were often overlooked while other folks ranted about EA's employment practices or Activision's Bobby Kotick.

[Ack]

I agree with you but they can't go back and add in characters as far as they were in development. It just doesn't work like that. Have you ever finished an Assassins Creed game? The end credits are usually about 30 minutes long. I guarantee they will have female assassins next game. I honestly don't understand why they didn't since they've been in every other asscreed with multiplayer besides not wanting to spend the money on the mocap.

Ubisofts protests about cost were possibly somewhat founded (though many have attempted to debunk those protests), but it is amazing they made it that far into development without realizing this might be an issue for a number of gamers. Their obliviousness to the issue and attitude about it later really made them stand out. They have become very much the poster child for several aspects of what's wrong with the games industry on the whole. I guess maybe Ubisoft would find that flattering, given that they were often overlooked while other folks ranted about EA's employment practices or Activision's Bobby Kotick.

On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, considering it's generally not been a major trend in video games to have fleshed-out female characters who aren't little more than eye candy, and that the protest to this sort of behavior has only really solidified to a palpable extent in the last decade or so...can you really blame them for not thinking about it at all? This probably wasn't even on their radar for consideration.

Also, that's a shame about Starbound. I played it a bit and actually enjoyed it.

[Frag Mortuus]

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