I don't understand why you guys are putting in so much effort to rebut Austin's piece. Some of you act like he's asking the developers to move heaven and earth because he wants diversity in games. A lot of you are acting in such a self-centered way, doing verbal contortions to justify you own viewpoint, that you don't seem to have any empathy for others'.
You guys are missing the point. So I say this as simply as I can: a VAST majority of mainstream video games have protagonists who have that skin color that most people think of when they hear the term "white people". As a fellow white guy, we take it for granted that we don't have to look hard for representation. Minorities are marginalized.
Any effort to reduce that marginlization, even if is done one game at a time, should be seen as a good thing.
And sorry, I'm trying to be civil about this. I'm holding back such vitriol right now. But "realism" is not a counterargument to diversity in the Witcher. Poland is not exempt. When we live in an age of the Internet, when everyone in the world has ample opportunity to learn about other cultures, ethnic homogeneity is no excuse. Not in Japan, not Poland, not anywhere.
I'm not saying anybody in this forum has said this, but if you don't think video games have a race problem, you're simply wrong. You're ignoring mountains of evidence to the contrary.
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