ImmortalDrifter said:
SpectacularWebHead said:
Thanks man, you have given the exact kind of comment that drove me to make this thread in the first place.
Please present proof that CoD is more sexist than anywhere else on the net. Are the mechanics of the game sexist? Does it offer sexists/misogynists some kind of special treatment?
Dude, Cod is marketed at guys. Because it is marketed SOLELY at guys, not in any way, shape or form at girl gamers, you can assume there's gonna be a lot more sexism than it's nearest competitor, Which is I think Halo... Not sure about sales, but assuming it is halo, Whilst the main character is a dude, you at least have some interesting female characters in it, and, You get a helluva a lot more girls playing halo than cod WITHOUT any abuse. As for providing you proof, I can't because I don't work in the gaming industry, and therefore have no kind of access to statistics. All I can tell you is the observation of Cod's community, coupled with it's marketing techniques in relation to other shooters, so yes, in a way, misogynist do get special treatment, because nothing is done about them, because people like you just say "Well, that's the internet for ya". Also, please tell me how you can make a sexist game mechanic, because you're just being silly now. The CoD community are largely up there with 4chan in levels of offensiveness. Just saying "Welcome to the internet" Doesn't make it okay.
TF2 is always the same maps, with the same characters, and the same gamemodes. I still play TF2 almost every week and I have the balls to admit that it's the same game every time I play it. Just because it's valve doesn't mean it gets a free pass.
Well no, because you get updates, Backstory and a metric-shit ton of other stuff that makes TF2 more interesting. If you're playing on console, fair enough, they have never updated it and never will, but there's more intrigue to TF2 than cod. Fuck, just the use of bright colours as opposed to grey, brown and very rarely, blue is enough to keep you interested.
How exactly does CoD abuse it's power? People like playing it so they make more of it? Has that stopped being basic business strategy while I wasn't looking? Also your logic makes absolutely no sense. How is CoD responsible for creating series by developers that have nothing to do with Activision or IW/Treyarch? If you wrote a bestseller should I be mad at you for the choices of other authors to parrot your work?
I've explained that already. As CoD is what everyone tries to be, we only get the same shitty brown shooter over and over. If CoD was willing to try something new and interesting, it would likely spur all the other companies copying it into doing something different and interesting. And, as you have proved, taking a risk wouldn't hurt their sales in the slightest, because so many people would buy it just because "It's CoD Braaah!" It's not the fault of other developers, becaus ethey are just following your oh so grand marketing strategy, thus leading us into this tidal wave of crap shooters, which is started at it's root, by CoD, the game your game could smell like.
Lastly, did you even read the damn paragraph I wrote? Where the hell do you get off calling me sheepish for spending my money on things I enjoy? It's isn't instant gratification or any other cop-out pretentious statement. (ADHD, Aspergers, Autistic whatever) I enjoy CoD, when I stop enjoying it I'll stop paying for it.
I get off calling you sheepish, because in your paragraph, you express your sheep like mentality because you know that very little is added to CoD each year, yet you still spend 60 bucks on what you know is 2 new gametypes and 10 new maps. You buy what you yourself have even said is basically the same game every year because you Enjoy it, but what you don't seem to realise is, you could stick with whichever one came out THIS year instead of wasting $60 on changes that are covered in DLC for most other games. THAT is why I view your mentality as sheep-like. You're following the crowd despite knowing it's unneccesary.
