diocesegoldmine comments on "Women love video games," Dressmaker dev says, there just aren't enough games for them: "We were definitely targeting women from the get-go"

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[–] diocesegoldmine@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

the game is cool but it would be so sick if we could leave this gendered language behind in gaming. as a nonbinary person this is so fucking stupid.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago*

Why ever would we do that? Binary people make games.

Non-binary people make games, and they use gendered language, too.

It has never been left behind, and it never will be.

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[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

Most people identify with gendered language & a binary gender. Like nearly everyone. So when discussing market appeal, it makes sense to discuss it in a gendered way.

Not every game, not all the time. But for a clearly femme coded game in makes sense to optimize towards you target audience

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know, right? And "combat" reminds me too much of actual violence. I prefer "kerfuffle" or "spot of unpleasantness".

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