A cheap and easy way for Bioware to attract new customers

Feminine hygiene products are marketed to females. Victoria's Secret is marketing to females in the sense that "hey, your SO will think you look great in this." It's definitely not, "these are super comfortable bras."

I agree that they are comfortable, but we're talking about marketing. I think we were specifically talking about Andromeda's marketing. But if you want to tell us all more about your girlfriend's undergarments that's probably better suited to a different forum, and possibly you might want to make sure it's okay with her.

The entire point of my second post was that you don't have to market to women specifically. You need to market to female gamers. How you market to those women is what matters. I even had pictures. It's an easy post to understand.

But even the OP didn't suggest marketing to only women and ignoring men. I have no idea where you're getting this.

"Bioware could easily market to women"

That would be the line.

But did you read the entire post? This line says nothing at all about excluding men. And the suggested description by the OP, quoted here:

...also does not in any way suggest excluding men or not marketing to men.



Did you not read all the posts from people saying that no, they did not realize they could customize the protagonist's gender? I personally read part of the wikipedia entries for these games (and all RPGs) in order to find out whether I can customize my protagonist, including gender, as I was deciding which games to buy. I mean, when I first bought DAO, I kind of figured that I'd get to choose some things about my character since I'd played NWN years before, but I still had to search a bit for the information to make sure. I don't see how it could possibly be harmful to make sure the game's official description is clear about this.

How does goodwill get that many copies of a game? Did someone from Gamestop just chuck it? Or was it an indie seller???

What?

I wonder if there's a game that features an all male cast would people complain today?

(Yes I'm aware there's games with an all male cast.)

What point are you trying to make here? The OP simply suggested that the descriptions of games (MEA specifically, but presumably future games as well) should be more explicit about the fact that you can customize your protagonist's gender, thinking this could cast a wider marketing net and expand the fanbase. The only one here who brought up excluding men is Quarantine. 

You didn't though, and I've read this whole thread. But that's fine. We can just agree to disagree. I doubt we're going to get anywhere with this.

(sigh) need to interrupt my drinking to do some 'tidying up'...



EDIT: Actually, maybe it's settled. Good. Back to the drinking.