I cannot defend BioWare regarding SJW stuff anymore. That's it.

I don’t care who she is.

What I care about is more games where I can create a female lead, be a cool heroine and pick a romance with an awesome male character, and neither my char, no other female characters appears to be dressed to fit into a bordello setting. I am unperturbed if the awesome males romance male leads too, so long as they will romance a girl-lead.

I wanted this since 1999, and I keep wanting it. I don’t want to be niche. I don’t want niche games “for women”. I want just games and be a heroic girl lead in them, that is not different from a male one.

If that’s what that woman stands for, I am with her. If not, well, I don’t care.

This.

When given the option, I will ALWAYS pick the woman. And I expect her to be equally badarse. I want the option to headbutt krogan, and punch idiots with her. I want the option to romance whoever I like (or no one at all, if none appeal to ME personally). I DON'T want to see some mimsy excuse of a girl afraid to break a nail in the lead. I want my lead to be as at ease on the ship/city, as she is in combat boots, laying the smackdown on some bad guys.

I have a hell of a lot of fun playing as FemShep in ME2, I get to badarse my way around the galaxy, headbutting pyjaks and killing merc scum, and I find it glorious fun. At the end of the day, isn't that all that matters from a video game? That you had fun? Wasted some time? Shot some aliens, banged some others?

Some browsers break the in-thread tweet (clearly yours does)

So you can see it:

Anita Sarkeesian @anitasarkeesian
I had such a great time touring @bioware’s Edmonton office and having tea with this great group of women (and allies!). Thanks for your hospitality.

Where exactly is the line between simply adding diversity to the cast of a video game or any other work of fiction and being an "SJW"? Personally I dislike the term "SJW" in the first place because I don't think it's ever a good idea to take a term that *should* imply something good (in this case "social justice") and turn it into a term of mockery.

But let's run with it and assume that we're talking about people who take the concept of social justice and carry it to some absurd extreme. I really don't see where Bioware is doing that, or why anybody would think that they are. The Mass Effect and Dragon Age games have non-human characters who are sometimes smarter or more noble than the humans, and you have the option to play your character as female, non-white, or gay/lesbian/bisexual and sometimes have squadmates who check off one or more of those boxes. But aside from the potential for interspecies conflict (which I assume we can agree is probably realistic), issues of identity don't tend to drive the stories of the games. They're relevant primarily to the relationships between the player-character and the squadmates. Even when there's a brief sidequest like Dorian's father in DA:I or Cortez and the memorial wall in ME3, it has next to zero impact on the main plot and just affects the interactions you might have after that.

And here is people OVERREACTING again...
 
All this whining just because she visited Bioware and posted a picture with the female staff? Really? I wonder how much paranoid or insecure one must be to make all this storm in a teacup.


BSN, BSN never changes...

That dude in the back though.

Can't figure out why they'd invite this woman to their offices. Her twitter banner alone...I mean geez.

Noo, I was just about to find this tweet as a reply before the page loaded.
But can you blame them? They're canadian. They believe the world is black and white and men/white people are evil because some professional victims cried wolf.

That's what I am saying.  Regardless of where people stand on this identity politics stuff this is not good PR for them (even if the mainstream media loves it).

And that's precisely that I do not want. To be pointed at Bayonetta, when I say I want more games like the Mass Effect. The games that are successful in leaving the hero creation to the player and treating the said character in the same way in the narrative.

In 2017 the only big game that let you create you own lead was Andromeda. In 2018 it's going to be Greedfall, a half-indie.

Of course KIA has to respond to Anita:

www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/7szymp/humor_rip_bioware/

May I remind you that she only got the amount of money she did with her kickstarter because she got flamed and trolled and had a lot of sexism directed at her over said kickstarter. If she hadn't been subject to abuse her kickstarter might not even have gotten the initial funding she was looking for.