Wanting things to be done properly isn't sitting quietly and peacefully doing nothing, stop mangling my words.
skillzilla81, was the rest of your post supposed to be for me (you seem to be replying to stuff I never said and topics I never even approached, is why I ask)?
I feel as if we're demanding too little, not too much. Demanding too much would be wanting volume and quantity, I feel as if demaning only volume is demaning way too little, not too much.
The fallout of rushing progress is that new generations hate progressives more by the day.
The fallout is what happened in the 80s after the 60s and 70s tried to do things too fast: you get an entire generation raising arms against you and completely undoing all the progress you fought for and actually making it worse than it was before.
To what are you referring here?
I just don't get your definition of "proper" as anything but "don't rock the boat enough to make the white people super duper mad."
If that isn't what you mean you seriously need to articulate it better.
You can't tell the people who are being injusticed to not rush. What sense does that make? We've had decades for game developers to evolve and work out the issue themselves, the time for benefit of the doubt has long passed. People want to see change in their lifetimes.
Believe it or not, you are actually parroting a different version of the same "it shouldn't be forced" line that the others do in bad faith. Just simply
having minorities in a game's cast should not be something you see as a monumental task that requires careful planning and world building. They don't need complex backstory and motivation as reasons to exist in the games. We are regular people IRL, why does that not translate?
Why is having ethnicity outside of white faces in a game's main cast seen as such an irregular event. THAT is the issue. We are discussing the topic of diversifying video games as if it is as monumental as adding Real-Time Ray-Traycing to a scene. A character being Black/Hispanic/Asian/Other should not be this big of a deal.
The fact that we are having such an in depth discussion on something that is so everyday simple is an indictment on the situation at hand.
Why do you feel people are only asking for volume? Of course the quality of well written character comes with that, people just don't want every black/ethnic character to have their place in the game justified by some in game reason. Let them be there because they are just... there.
The truth is, until it becomes ubiquitous, yes, someone on the team of developers literally needs to be conscious enough to ask, "Do we have too many white characters in this picture?" That's how it has to be. Yes, it has to be forced. No, changing one of them to be a different race does not mean you need to rewrite their entire history to justify it. They need to be treated as regular as every white character in the game. That's it.
The proper way to do it is to ask white developers to consciously make an effort to get it done, sooner than later.
