Crosmando: Well personally I find that kind of thing completely inappropriate.
But the topic of this thread is Witcher 3, so I was just pointing out that CDP obviously know that 99% of their audience are male and they make the game accordingly, it's not a strange thing, they're a company which aims to make money. Let's not delude ourselves, vast majority of gamers are male (and no playing Candy Crush on a iPhone does not count). Do you think you'll ever see Geralt in a gay romance? I'll leave that unanswered.
As for the gay thing I was being facetious, no mainstream company would make a game directly targeted at such a tiny amount of the population, it would be financial suicide, I'm saying Bioware put that stuff in for female audience. So yeah, I'll recant that and say: modern Bioware games are targeted at women.
If that wasn't already obvious just by how the dialogue is written in the game, how the characters are designed, etc.
Why exactly are Bioware targeting women? There is nothing inherent in the games that make them target women. I'm a heterosexual male, and I enjoy (most) of their games. I know plenty of other who do. I also know several women who enjoy Bioware titles. Their games just don't seem to target any specific gender or sexuality.
As for 99% of The Witcher's audience being male, I hardly believe that to be true either. In my experience, women also do enjoy The Witcher (in fact I know several in real life who play The Witcher, and I have a hard time believing that my situation is much different from that of other people). I woudl say that out of the people I know who have said that they are fans of The Withcer, roughly 60-70% are male. Geralt as a character seem to be quite popular with the (real) ladies ;). There seem to be something with characters who's names being with G and being popular with them (Garret being the other one I've heard several women say that they like for the eye, or in the case of Garret, ear candy).
And what makes the option of having gay relationships in games any less appropriate than the option of having heterosexual relationships?
Crosmando: Not really, considering that heterosexual and homosexual populations are not the same in size, or even close. If they were "equal" then, you know, about 3% of the NPCs in Bioware games would be homosexual, which when you consider how few NPCs are walking around even in big cities in BW games - it would round off to approximately 0.
I still would like to know where you get this number from. 3% is the smallest number I've heard. Usual number is about 10% who are "pure homosexual". Then there are people who are bi-sexual, people who are bi-sexual but leaning towards one end, and people who are mostly heterosexual but would consider trying "the other side". This all adds up to a far far larger number than 3%.
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You'll also find that places where it's considered more okay to be gay, you'll find more people who identify themselves as being gay.
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7% gay seem to be the official number according to the government in the UK.
*edit 3* Been checking the latest surveys, and they seem to fluctuate between about 3,7% & 14%, depending on where in the world they were made, and by who (the one being close to 14% was done in Rio de Janeiro)
