attractive women draws folks eyes and helps sells things maybe not necessarily automatically millions but it does help.
It's 2021 it is kind of in right now to shy away from having a sexy women as main characters. They can still be somewhat attractive though.
I think that it depends on the game, obviously if it's a gacha then yes it's going to sell.
I also think it goes for other games where you buy skins and mog/ glam your character like in FFXIV and WoW I think that most people want their characters to look sexy or cute.
Same in Guild Wars 2.
When it comes to singleplayer and narrative driven games tho I think that people are way more puritanical, how often don't you see people say that they dismissed Nier Automata because of 2B's design?
People are very boring and judgemenetal when it comes to that.
Basically people prefer it when it's just '' brainless entertainment '' but not when it's '' artsy '', and they assume anything that has those characters is brainless which ultimately says more about them than the characters and the games.
I think that it's far more true that violence sells in a more general sense.
Almost every game ever made relies entirely on violence, and gore sells a lot more than sex does especially since it complements it.
The only time gore doesn't seem to sell is when games are made to be for kids and that often makes them the most popular same reason why you come across totally random Youtubers and people on Tiktok with tens of millions of subs and views or why Fortnite is so huge.
But for adults at least I think that violence and gore sells, sex only sells in very particular cases and I think that people are still very puritanical and judgemental about it.
Especially with what they consider to be sexual, masculinity can basically be pushed and twisted however much you want, the moment you even begin to do that with femininity it's immediately labelled as sexualized.
Like a woman wearing makeup alone will be seen as her '' doing it for men and to sexualize herself '', as if men don't workout and groom themselves to get womens attention?
It's probably the primary drive for why men want to look a certain way and be strong and prove themselves...
I mean even something as simple as how male heroes are totally hairless on their bodies both in movies and in games, I dunno about you but I am hairy as fuck.
Men in media are like prepubescent teenage boys when it comes to body hair, that's not because it's a '' power fantasy '' but because it's seen as more attractive and it is sexualized and is meant to emphasize their physique.
. Bioware I kind of understand although I'm still somewhat against since the game is far more serious.
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