Why not? I preferred it but was happy there was a choice for others to play with a female character. Not that I particularly felt strongly about it but choice is never a bad thing.
Would they sell more because they had a male protagonist or would they sell more because even with a multi million dollar marketing budget they'd get more marketing if there was a male lead? And yea RPGs tend to market with the lead with at best giving us a reversible cover. If anything, that time ME3 had two different CG trailers should've set a standard long ago but by my knowledge it's the only example where the two were truly treated equally in marketing.
Just gonna ask again if you're going to respond to the allegations being made and condemn them? Or are you going to continue avoiding criticism of the company, it's policies and it's staff?
I don't even think ME3 was even in its marketing, I still feel like male protag featured much more than female sheep but it was a long time ago. Dragon Age Inquisition I think actually did in that they kept switching the gender and type of the Inquisitor in the ads and also made a much more neutral design and that got GotY and was BioWare's biggest selling game so 🤷♀️
That would be great, but I'm hoping we will always have a female option in every game in the series from now on.
DA:I also happens to have a really good gender neutral cover. Bioware in general was really good about making it known that it's not just male shep's story.
How did the last Nier sell? Or Bayonetta?
I'd like to see that research tbh. There's plenty of companies where the old boys club' word is law and they make suggestions over the heads of departments.
Eh, I wouldn't go that far that they were good at it, they did more than their peers at the time but honestly for the longest time I thought Mass Effect was a dude bro shooter and didn't know there was a female protag until I saw women mention how much they love femShep. Their marketing has got better but I still think it could improve, especially for Mass Effect, as while they did do a more gender neutral character on the cover and featured Sara Ryder more I still think the big trailer were Male. Anthem though defo has more female protag showing up though.
For Mass Effect 3 they did marketing specifically for FemShep and the limited edition cover uses FemShep.
FemShep finally got some marketing for ME3, she did not get equal amounts, which I mentioned earlier in the thread. Also for the first two games if you looked at the marketing you wouldn't even know she really existed as an option.
Yeah, it's a bit surprising because that spoilered storybeat feels like it was written with a male character in mind.
Yes it is. Could you imagine Red Dead Redemption 2, The Last of Us, or even previous AC games like 2 without their defined male characters? Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love more games to have a female option, especially those with blank slates for protagonists, but women deserve more stories solely focused on them, like Horizon and The Last of Us 2.
