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Elysian Shadows developer (Polish) writes "Love Letter to Person Who Demands Racial Quotas in Witcher 3" (elysianshadows.com)

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[–]nextstopjapan -110ポイント-109ポイント  (67子コメント)

I get this, and i'm not knocking off any devs if they want an entire white cast.

But it does get a bit demotivating to be in a world completely filled with white people.

I know alot of you will say it doesn't matter, and it doesn't, but as a minority i can't help but feel a bit displeased with the video game industry as a whole.

Witcher 3 aside, why is that almost all non-rpg games have white main characters? Relation surpasses the silly notion of color, but still, i can't help but feel through american media(The current strongest soft power in the world) all white people are constantly portrated as the hero or main character where every single other minority takes a back seat.

The black dude/girl is the sidekick,the chinese dude/girl is the tech savvy,the indian is the quirky, and the arab/russian/eastern europe is always the villian.

Is it really the case where we can say "Oh well you have mostly white devs making games, so it's ok if it's only white, because we need more minority devs".

I'd like to bring up the example of game of thrones, where George RR martin can write and in conversion translate good female characters to the tv screen, why can't white developers write good minority characters?

Again, not knocking anyone for not doing it, i would just prefer to play different people and experience culture through other people's eyes, because i'd like to be in someone's shoes who is something else other than white

Edit: Apparently people don't like minorities in video games, oh well back to being racist reddit, keep it classy.

[–]Deyj 19ポイント20ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is why someone has to start creating games from those perspective. Make a game about Anasi or along those lines, I doubt anyone would complain if there were a lack of white people.

[–]dsk 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

It is a valid concern. Truthfully, it won't change until you have a bigger minority representation in development and publishing. It's not a coincidence that it took a Polish developer to create a game based on Eastern European lore.

[–]EatCornNobs 75ポイント76ポイント  (20子コメント)

You rely too heavily on the notion that discrimination is about skin color. There are hints about it in your post, but you even end it by essentially implying that being white makes it impossible to be discriminated against. Even the author of the article brings up how Poles were discriminated against for the last couple centuries, in addition to being discriminated against today.

I'd also just like to point out that the world "slave" has its root in the world "Slav" (as in, the Slavic people).

Indeed, if you play The Witcher, you notice that the main character is heavily discriminated against for being a mutant, or a monster. Additionally, non-humans are discriminated against just because of their race.

[–]garbage_account656 29ポイント30ポイント  (0子コメント)

Polish people are minorities. Did you read the article? Not every minority in America is black. Not every white person has the same heritage. Does every black person come from the same culture? Does every Asian? Does every Hispanic?

Diverse creation isn't just about skin color. That's incredibly shallow.

[–]arronaxx88 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

I would have upvoted you (even though I disagree with you) until I saw your edit. General accusations of racism are intellectually unhonest.

[–]BasediCloud[S] 50ポイント51ポイント  (12子コメント)

why can't white developers write good minority characters?

Paraphrasing Vavra, why do minorities need white developers to write games for them? Why can't minorities write their own games?

"White people" are like 8% of the world population.

[–]hacktivision 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's ultimately the best case scenario, the way I see it. Most developers are either white or Japanese. And minorities who work in video games get assimilated and don't direct anything because : no money = no initiative. Therefore all the creativity is white or Japanese creativity. Then when these minorities complain, they are asked to do their own thing. Which is actually a good advice but is not realistic right now. You'd have to wait years before seeing some Indian or Chinese developers make it big and create their own IP. The way I see it, these two countries are overdue for making their own games rather than just porting.

Edit : also 8% of the population but a huge amount of wealth, and wealth = initiative. Not that you're completely wrong, just saying.

[–]ThatIsMyHat 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

They can, but there are hardly any minorities in game development. That's a whole other op/ed, though.

[–]LuisLN 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

And there aren't any minorities in game development because it's all white people. White devs, white video game characters, white iOS design. Thus, minorities stay poor, free from ambition, living out their lives in ghettos, while white teens discuss how legitimate their representation is.

[–]hiero_ -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

You do realize that white developers make up the majority of the game development scene, right? There aren't many minority developers who actually have the opportunity to produce like, a triple A title starring minorities.

As far as the Witcher goes I think it is totally in the right to not have minority characters for the cultural and visionary reasons that have been stated already, but as far as the rest of the industry goes, the above commenter is absolutely right on the state of the gaming industry. Most western made games, and an overwhelming majority of triple A titles especially, have a white protagonist. Sure you get a few games here and there, like The Walking Dead, that have POC as the main character, but they're few and far between. Us white people have a lot of representation in the gaming scene - minorities don't get to enjoy the same feelings. They lack protagonists they can relate to and feel like they are truly in their shoes. If we want to practice the equality a lot of us preach, it shouldn't be so hard to understand that they aren't as well represented when most of the Western made games you find on your local GameStop's wall have covers prominently featuring a white protagonist.

[–]__Saga__ 9ポイント10ポイント  (1子コメント)

You were fine until your snarky little edit. And I like how you contradicted yourself by talking about George RR Martin, who yes can write good women characters (Which has nothing to do with your post at all) but the only 'minorities' are slaves in Essos.

[–]McJiggins 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm a minority and I never once felt "demotivated" that everyone in the game was white, hell it never even crossed my mind. It just doesn't fucking matter.

[–]pie-oh -3ポイント-2ポイント  (0子コメント)

(Really disliked the edit, but agree with some of the post. So not defending them.)

There's lots of minorities who don't feel this way. But there are also a lot who do. It's important to not suggest every minority feels a victim of this, but while you don't – there are plenty of others who do.

[–]Namtab 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

it does get a bit demotivating to be in a world completely filled with white people

Jesus fucking christ

[–]Eburon 7ポイント8ポイント  (3子コメント)

Well then you're the racist one here... I have no problem playing a game in Africa with only black people.

[–]Headcrab-King [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I had no idea people giving you valid responses equals not liking minorities which the polish happen to be but they have white skin so they don't count I guess.