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

Console only...

And I have had lots of fun with Assassin Creed games, tons of fun, absolutely up my alley in every aspect of graphics and gameplay and ideas and the setting and everything... but I liked the Tyranny better, because my hero, my choices. It stayed with me while Ezio's antics are Ezio's.

Hmm... what does TW3 do that ME couldn't do? (As opposed to "didn't do.") Shepard and Ryder are fairly well-defined characters, aren't they? OK, Geralt's choices of sex partners are defined in a way that an ME PC's are not, but besides that?

Wow this tweet is a goldmine for Bioware haters xD As for Bioware themselves, they can't help but shove politics in here eh?

Well, straight white males have been sort of the "default" for protagonists in fiction for a while, or at least they constitute a disproportionate percentage of protagonists.

As far as representation goes, is your position that fiction, and fictional portrayals of ethnicity, gender, orientation, etc., have no real effect on people's attitudes beyond the work of fiction itself? While we can disagree about whether specific examples are portraying certain categories of people unfairly, IMO there are at least some examples that I think most would agree are the wrong way to do these things. For example, in this infamously terrible (for multiple reasons, not just relating to race) episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation had all black actors cast to play the stubborn and stereotypically backward alien race that the Enterprise crew encounters, and Jonathan Frakes himself (who played Commander Riker) once referred to the episode as a "racist piece of shit":

memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_Honor_(episode)

One could argue that watching the episode won't actually change anyone's attitudes towards African-Americans, but at the very least we can probably agree that it's not likely to help.

What are we talking about? I am missing something there.

They can be pretty salty but I prefer the chicken bacon ranch with buffalo sauce myself.

Honestly I don't think it is that bad right now.

Note how I keep talking about the games I have played, specifically, but you only want to talk about the Witcher.

In fact, bringing Witcher up as a game that specifically is successful because it carters to a niche demographics is really illogical, because the game has a very wide appeal, and was obviously made to make more people like it. They even added a girl lead to it, albeit in an episodic rather than leading role. It is not niche in terms of having open world and crafting and a strong story and a multiplayer. It has content addressed to juvenile segment, and to the older folks...

So, your very favorite Witcher is a very strong argument in favor of addressing the game to as wide audience as possible, as opposite to say, Tyranny that targets the old-school older gamers.

It makes no sense to me that all 35 mln of people who bought the Witcher bought it and loved it because the lead character was a white male. ??? That all those 35 mlns would have said the game is crap if there was a romance with Dandelion as involved as the one with Yennifer? If play time on Ciri was equal to that on Geralt & her romance option went beyond one kiss? What, all 35 mln of the Witcher rabid fans would have turned 180 degrees and hated the game?

I refuse to believe such a thing.

So... your argument is that it is impossible to create three or four romances instead of two? That's your reason to eliminate a female lead, which by the way has a certain appeal to the very same straight white male demographics of which I had seen numerous, endless examples in MMOs.

And goodness gracious, Dynasty Warriors 8 has both males and females that are all attractive, and so do most of the anime games... ain't exactly something has never been done before & who complained???

I am more than satisfied by Bio's romances in DA2 and ME2, and don't find them to be stretched thin, just right.

Well, look, I can give you examples of many games that I feel wonderfully handled the main character being opened to the male and female, and all you can talk about is one game, the Witcher 3... because all the other games with a fixed leads, I am sorry, but they really do not show any sign of the same sort of choices and flexibility. In fact most of them either tightly scripted with player spectating all dialogues, or very trite.

Look at Technomancer. Zachariah could have been Zoya, and it would have changed nothing.

That's completely correct. TW3 did not eliminate a female protagonist. It added one compared to TW1/2, as well as corrected some silliness like those cards in the first one.

And was better received than the prequels, and sold more.

See how it did not ruin it to have a playable female hero as well as a male?