Just throwing this out there.
Looking at the story of Modern Warfare.... The united states has been invaded. The world is at war the likes of which it hasn't seen in 70 some-odd years. The greatest superpowers are loosing thousands of soldiers, maybe even tens of thousands of soldiers daily.
Yet we don't want them boob-weilding long-hair'd types fighting for their own survival. Nope. As Mr. Shepard once said, there will be no shortage of patriots. I do not believe Shepard would give a rats ass if those patriots had breasts or not.
ARMA III's forum had a very lengthy, long discussion of women serving and being playable combat characters. The amount of sexism and chest-beating was.... unnerving. Our demograph is indeed mostly men. We are not manly by playing virtual men on a video game, people need to realise this and act accordingly.
I understand there are not many Female combatants in the US. But they are there. Does that warrant the development cycle of a manly video game such as a first person shooter like Call of Duty so we can play as women? There was a good article in a gameinformer where CliffyB talked about why there were no women in GoW, and how the development cycle was the reason there were no women. He went on to talk about this broadly about all games. This was before GoW3 was announced, and a female playable character was announced.
The worlds militaries (youknow. As this is a world war, as advertised.) do have spots of women here and there. Do you think the PLA of China won't get involved? You think they don't have women? Do you think Israel is going to stand by? You think they don't have women?
Even apart from the militiaries, are the police forces of the world just going to chillax? You think the women of the police forces around the united states would just sit there and go "Nono, they're soliers. We're just cops. We'll sit here and wait for Ramirez."
Gimme a break
From a standpoint of "would it work" I don't see why it wouldn't. People didn't flip a lid when Ghost Recon had women in it. Hell Rainbow six had women in it on Day 1.
The only reason I believe people actually care is that they are afraid that the process of rigging a new skeleton, animations, textures, all of that involved with a new model would somehow prolong the release date and prevent them from playing the game as soon as possible. Or that somehow these female models will be somehow imbalancing to the video games they play (like Call of Duty is balanced.)
And to those who state that "If you have a choice all the boys will pick female models and it would be stupid derp derp" I point to Halo Reach, GRAW 2, and Rainbow six Vegas 2. All have female models for their games in Multiplayer, yet I still see mostly men on the battlefield.
Lets grow up. Kay?
