Microsoft does not want "curvy female" characters in-games

[Groogo]

Microsoft urges developers not to create female characters with “exaggerated body proportions” on their official site to support game devs.

The site, titled “Product Inclusion Action: Help Customers Feel Seen” includes a bullet list of considerations they urge developers to make when working on their product. One Twitter user pointed out the language expressly condemning certain female characters as reinforcing “negative gender stereotypes”.

[PortalShifter]

Nice. Every NPC in a Microsoft published game from here on will look exactly like the Starfailed NPCs, who are widely regarded as some of the best looking NPCs in any video game.

[Groogo]

Escrito originalmente por PortalShifter:

Nice. Every NPC in a Microsoft published game from here on will look exactly like the Starfailed NPCs, who are widely regarded as some of the best looking NPCs in any video game.

They are almost all pure ugly.

[p_c_sousa87]

Well who cares? Microsoft games are almost all garbage anyway, the real good games from MS dont have NPC ( car games, etc)

[gywidion]

Here, though they kill this topic the other day
Better from the source to get a fuller impact of what they are shooting for and their reasoning

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/resources/productinclusion/product-inclusion-actions/help-customers-feel-seen/
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https://developer.microsoft.com/content/microsoftgamedev/en-us/games/resources/productinclusion/product-inclusion-actions/help-customers-feel-seen/_jcr_content/root/container/container/container_1286480649/image.coreimg.jpeg/1710886846409/businessrepresentation.jpeg

[Jimmi Stixx]

Take a walk through the uncanny valley. Go to Starfield's towns. I never get that kind of side eye from anyone IRL.

[zpc]

Isn't that what some people use mods for? You know, giving female NPCs transparent armors (if any), fox tails, body type unnatural, silicon implants & the like ...

[gywidion]

Escrito originalmente por Jimmi Stixx:

Take a walk through the uncanny valley. Go to Starfield's towns. I never get that kind of side eye from anyone IRL.

It is eerie for sure

[TheToxicTherapyRoom]

They are worried about true female beauty, no wonder they are using body types 1 and 2. What a joke. LOL

[Raven]

Escrito originalmente por Jimmi Stixx:

Take a walk through the uncanny valley. Go to Starfield's towns. I never get that kind of side eye from anyone IRL.

You'll just have to tone down the sassy swagger, or perhaps your hairstyle has them thinking, "Mmm, I could flaunt that coiffure soooo well"

[Lowe0]

So play something made by a developer whose character models you do like. Problem solved.

[Skorpius]

I dont understand their hatred toward curvy women?? Seems illogical. Lots of women are curvy, especially black women. This seems like backwards progress for those women.

[ListenFat]

The game was changed to inclusion 3 years before Microsoft took over.

[TheToxicTherapyRoom]

Escrito originalmente por Skorpius:

I dont understand their hatred toward curvy women?? Seems illogical. Lots of women are curvy, especially black women. This seems like backwards progress for those women.

It really makes you wonder the personality types that are behind all this.

[Caolán_The_Wolf]

Escrito originalmente por Ozempic:

Escrito originalmente por Skorpius:

I dont understand their hatred toward curvy women?? Seems illogical. Lots of women are curvy, especially black women. This seems like backwards progress for those women.

It really makes you wonder the personality types that are behind all this.

spiteful and vindictive predominately.

[Groogo]

Escrito originalmente por Caolán_The_Wolf:

Escrito originalmente por Ozempic:

It really makes you wonder the personality types that are behind all this.

spiteful and vindictive predominately.

Karen's all.