[quote=“Panzeh, post:33, topic:135421”]
How long will it be before those games are accused of sexism for now including female playable characters?
Aside from that, (in the mid to late 2000s), even having the option to shoot a woman in a video game would have been considered lewd & inappropriate by most journalistic standards, but now that the floodgates are open, both the media and big publishers now have the power to dictate trends that others will be pressured to conform to, whether those trends are helpful to the indie dev/lower tier publisher or not.
Debates rage on between whether an Avatar should reflect the self, or that a player should be comfortable with inhabiting the virtual shoes of an NPC, and meanwhile Blizzard is doing very well with Overwatch, the bombastic hero-shooter that is a straight compromise down the middle - with customisation!
Other companies are motivated primarily to chase that Overwatch money, so these systems are more reflective of video game hegemony + ubiquity than they are of providing any unique, interesting or relevant experience. Games as a Service.
All things are a waste of money; some more than others.