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Microsoft wants to ban curvy females from video games​

US tech giant Microsoft is discouraging using excessively curvy female characters in video games, according to updated guidelines issued by the company on Tuesday.

As part of its inclusivity initiative, Microsoft offered developers a list of questions to consider while working on their products to check whether they are reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes. The guide, dubbed ‘Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen’, includes various stereotypes that the gaming giant believes are best left out.

According to the guidance, game designers should check if they are unnecessarily introducing gender barriers and should make sure they create playable female characters that are equal in skill and ability to their male peers, and equip them with clothing and armor fitting to the tasks.

“Do they have exaggerated body proportions?”the guideline asks.

Female characters play a significant role in the gaming industry and have become fan favorites throughout the years. Various females, including Lara Croft, Bayonetta, and Ada Wong have played iconic roles in video games.

One of the most vivid examples of unrealistically looking female characters is Bayonetta, who is integrated into every facet of the eponymous fantasy action-adventure game. Stellar Blade, another game with a controversial design, has used a Korean model for its main character.
 
Men mostly like women with small waists and big boobs and reasonably curvy hips and butt

Women mostly like tall men with broad chests and shoulders and TWENTY FOUR INCH PYTHONS (not in their pants)

No one is allowed to get what they like anymore unless they're weeb coomers
 
I for one hope every last women in upcoming games falls into the realistic trans bipoc category.
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I thank Microsoft for helping destroy AAA gaming.
 
By "curvy" they mean no more fat chicks, right? Just like it's not realistic to fight in a bikini, it's not realistic to fight in a quadruple XL hoodie because it means you will be exhausted from thirty seconds of running.
This is a good question. Are the females in the game too tall and too wide? Are they carrying too much gear, running too fast, and jumping too high? Do their melee attacks do too much damage?

I, too, agree female characters should be more realistic.



Exactly! It's also not realistic to fight in a female body because a man will break you in fucking half.

The whole realism argument usually falls flat in more ways than just consistency and the fact that fiction =/= reality. In a lot of the cases, especially about female outfits, it EVEN fails basic fighting logic and historical reality too. (1) Armor was expensive. Most went into battle in regular clothing. In fact all but the elite rich did. (2) Less is more in a whole lot of cases and fighting styles. And by less I mean less weight, less restrictive and less to get in the way. Striking first and/or dodging is actually a much better tactic in most cases it turns out. To make matters worse, and which brings us to (3) There are examples of worriers all throughout history who fought partly or totally nude. Some in body paint only. Females included. For example the amazonian legends have them fighting nude! But even beyond that, fighting nude was an especially successful tactic of female worriers, and for clear distractive reason(s)!

Again though.. The most compelling argument is that it's fantasy and fiction! Reality has no place here. Style rules king!

I love blowing up shitheads and whiners with the facts, and reality (:biggrin:), every time ones tries to pull the "but it's not reeeeaaaaalistic"
 
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yeah, i don't consider the writer hideous or anything, but she definitely has a few goofy features. that's perfectly fine for a real person. taking those flaws and putting them in a 3D model of what's supposed to be a fantasy comic book character because you want to "break down gender barriers" just makes them look some horrible monster

The problem isn't that she's ugly, the problem is that she, along with many other female writers, is putting a self-insert into her game. "Women should be more realistic" turns out to be a mask for "I, personally, want to be the center of attention." Everyone should have seen this coming - what pisses a woman off isn't "unrealistic" women, it's women who are prettier than she, personally, is. That is why women in gaming are such a cancer. They want gaming to be about them, not about games.
 
Who the fuck plays games for realism*? If I want a short stack goblin character that’s my right. I like how the super steroid bulking male characters are exempt.

Maybe they can get around this ‘rule’ by avoiding reality based games lol.

*sims is probably the exception, although I don’t think making my families spend their entire immortal lives writing books and painting counts as realistic.
 
Ah, characters. From the headline alone, I was hoping MS would ban hambeasts from playing.


Oh fuck, another one. Look, homofaggot gayboi, we Marxists put faggots in prison and turned trannies into vegetables. You capitalists shot, watched, and lauded movies in which children got raped and a woman dumping her faggot fiancee she'd caught getting buggered damned her to degradation and insanity. Go suck a tranny dick and die from aids.
You're literally a dyke.
This is a good question. Are the females in the game too tall and too wide? Are they carrying too much gear, running too fast, and jumping too high? Do their melee attacks do too much damage?

I, too, agree female characters should be more realistic.



Exactly! It's also not realistic to fight in a female body because a man will break you in fucking half.
These people actually believe women are just as capable as men at combat. Girlboss brainwashing is a bitch.
Leftoids are worse than evangelical christians when it comes to this crap. "uhm, sweaty, you are not allowed to look at things that are objectively sexy, here have this ugly degenerate shit we have cooked up, also we will turn your kids into ugly disgusting toxic waste monsters"
What gets me is how they successfully abused people's good will to do this. And how most people who are 'waking up' aren't learning their lesson.
 
Do they have exaggerated body proportions?”the guideline asks.
I guarantee that the intent of this is to ban the opposite: women with healthy BMIs. Most people are overweight or obese these days, so they get very offended when they see someone who is in shape or otherwise has the self control needed to not be a fatass.
Anyways I am in favor of banning curvy women in real life. Put down the fork, woman!
 
Sony is actually banning and actively censoring it
I have a lot of complaints about what happened to Project E.V.E. since Soyny got hold of it, but even as "Stellar Blade" You can't deny the protag is VoLuPtUoUs.

Microsoft apparently wants every female character in a game to look like the shrek they have for their fable reboot.
I wish them luck in bankruptcy court.
 
I guarantee that the intent of this is to ban the opposite: women with healthy BMIs. Most people are overweight or obese these days, so they get very offended when they see someone who is in shape or otherwise has the self control needed to not be a fatass.
Anyways I am in favor of banning curvy women in real life. Put down the fork, woman!

What we really need is for every game to watch the room through a webcam so that if a woman walks into the room, every female character in the game is immediately replaced by a facsimile of her.
 
Can't wait for them to start creating ugly tranny main characters for their games, and then cry transphobia when they don't sell LOL
something something Horizon 2
I had low expectations for the TES VI, but now I'm 100% sure it's going to be faggy to the extreme and a buggy unplayable pile of shit.
Modders will once again save the day.
 
That is why women in gaming are such a cancer. They want gaming to be about them, not about games.

Reminds me of when Jordan Peterson said that when girls play with Barbie dolls, they want Barbie dolls to be them. When boys play with Batman, they want to be batman.

Or from a Manosphere/Red Pill philosophy point of view, women are solipsistic (it's all about me me me).
 
The source for this is RT (Russia Today). "The decadent West wants to ban curvy women and replace them with trannies or something, be mad!", lmfao.

I like how they contradict the title in the very first sentence. "Ban" is absolutely not the same as "discourage exaggerated proportions". Get fucking real, don't fall for dumb outrage bait.
Do you know why banning Russia Today was a bad idea? Because sometimes even propaganda tells the truth.
 
What we really need is for every game to watch the room through a webcam so that if a woman walks into the room, every female character in the game is immediately replaced by a facsimile of her.

Great idea.. Let's take it one step further and add an AI that customizes the look to match the women entering the room. It should buy some extra "leave me the fuck alone about my game" points and goodwill. lol


Modders will once again save the day.

For now. See my first post. Plus on top of those issues we still have the devs empowered by out retarded CR laws, and mods sites scared or all too willing to cuck on this type of issue instantly. Right now it's just mainly some Japanese devs (crapcom and maybe SE, it's not fully clear yet, and a few others) but all it would take is one retard in a western one or an article drumming up nontroversy and 'poof'. A few threatening email later and it's hidden on some obscure DL site in the very best of cases. (i've seen enough mod creators just give up before that point) A quick game update and only a new version of the mod will work.
 
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This is pretty stupid. They should worry about making good games. Games that people actually want to play. The lead dev of Bayonetta wanted a female character that looked like that. He told the artists to design a character like that. It was a female that designed the character if I remember correctly.

I played through games like MGS5 and I thought Quiet was a bit over the top. It's a MGS game and Japs are fucking weird. But what's going on in the Western video game industry is no better. It's like one extreme or the other. It's really weird to be playing this game with a serious setting and tone but then you have to deal with a Hooters waitress that also works as a sniper. I would rather have that than some ugly woman. I can understand where the criticism comes from. But the reaction is a bit extreme.

You can have women that aren't as curvy but aren't ugly.
 
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