:geordi-no: Players Shaming Devs
:geordi-yes: Devs Shaming Players
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Funny shit and I hope to see more of it.
Gamers are too shitty towards devs, who are overworked and underpaid. They end up getting blamed for the problems caused by CEOs, shareholders, and executives (rushed development) and it's really fucking cruel sometimes.
Imagine you hadn't seen your family in months because some fat cat wanted the game out the door in an unreasonable timeframe, You don't get the time to fix every bug, but you try and tackle the worst ones. It releases and suddenly there are a bunch of 15-year-olds sending you death threats on Twitter because you didn't make one of the character's boobs big enough or maybe there's a half-second drop in FPS that 20% of people get that's gone viral. What an awful job that must be.
If nothing else, this shows that the average gamer is not a min-maxer because humans in BG3 are just fucking trash. So many of the other races come with incredible power and the added benefit of not looking like their name is fucking John.
Yeah Deep Gnome, Halfling, Duergar and Half-Orc are by far the strongest "meta" races for min-maxxers but nobody plays them. Everybody plays dragonborn and human even though both are RP tier and objectively inferior in their abilities and powers.
Gith get free misty step and jump, tho...
god what a horrible creature... a white man
>make white human male the default in every CC screen of every game
>never question why this is considered the default
>people impatient to play click through menus and don't customize their character thinking "I'll do it later" or "I'll do it next time"
>the analytics system picks up on this
Not in this game. When you select customize character, the default is randomized. When you look at a different species, that is also randomized. The game just has a lot of basic white cishet male gamers playing it I think.
The game just has a lot of basic white cishet male gamers playing
Or those players are the most likely to make a character that matches them. Historically RPGs have the highest percentage of women playing outside of life sims. Also, queer people esp trans people tend toward RPGs over other genres. Cis het white man still might be the biggest demographic though, even if it isn't the majority like it is for games like Total War or Civ
Not sure this necessarily means that everyone is just rolling Default 1990s CRPG Character. You could have a bunch of interesting builds that still end up with this as the combination of the most popular choices
Or it could be that this is just a small plurality. 10% of people choose a boring white guy, but then each of the other options gets like 8%, so even though 90% of players are playing something that isn't just a white guy, technically, the most popular individual choice is white guy.
I mean I always just make myself in the character creator for any RPG, the most adventurous I get is going half-elf, never full elf.
No more half-elf measures
But what about halfling measures?
Are halflings the ones that measure time such they end up with two breakfasts? Cause I'm down with that.
America delenda est.
Hobbits of LotR inspired the Halflings of D&D, so yes they count!
Yeah. I know halflings are characterized a bit differently in the 4e handbooks (the only edition I played with any regularity) but the only halfling character I've really seen is Regis from the Drizzt books, and he's pretty exactly a Middle-earth halfling in Faerun.
w my hot purple tiefling
This is green-haired SJW Lolth-sworn Drow erasure. She's an arachno-communist.
Lolth-sworn drow is great. Bullying Dhorn out of what is otherwise a mandatory combat encounter was the highlight of the underdark for me.