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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-15 03:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #2721 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2721 ⌋

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[personal profile] writerserenyty 2014-06-15 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Except it was a side game (and not part of the series proper) and originally only on Vita? I don't have a Vita, so I didn't buy it. It's now been given an HD release on PC, which is great, but it's been out for 6 months, and so that was probably not taken into account when they were considering the game.

Also it wasn't advertised anywhere near as much as the other games (I casually enjoy the series but I didn't really know about it for a while) and the reviews are much more mixed than, say, Assassin's Creed 4 or even Assassin's Creed 3.

This would be more valid if one of the main games had a female protagonist and the sales dropped in a big way (though I would argue that has much more to do with sexism of the player base) but Liberation is hardly comparable to the rest of the series.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-15 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes, I feel like those companies do this on purpose - throw out a not exactly great game that happens to have a female character for once, put it on an unpopular console and wait until it's doing really badly. Just so they can use that game as an excuse why they're not doing any more female characters in their games.

They are greedy, so it's unlikely that's really the case, but still...
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[personal profile] writerserenyty 2014-06-15 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It feels like that. It feels like a really readymade excuse, too, like "oh, Liberation didn't sell well, so no female characters for you."

People do that with every game, though. Every time a game with a female protagonist sells poorly it turns into "oh, games with female protagonists sell poorly...," even though there are so many games with male protagonists that sell terribly, too, and they never take into account marketing, game quality, etc.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-15 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
And if a game with a female protagonist does well, it usually does well despite the female character, because the game is just that good that something like a female main character can be tolerated.

(Anonymous) 2014-06-16 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah ... I can't HELP knowing a new main series Assassin's Creed is coming out even if I'm not in a game store during this time period - they advertise them aggressively.

Never even did hear of this one. It really can't be compared.

Might get it tho.