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Diversity in the entertainment media and its products such as television series or movies is something that different industries have taken quite seriously for some time now, seeking ways to include characters of, for example, different sexual orientations.
Something that they also try in the video game industry, although not always with great success and a good response from the community, as has happened to Activision Blizzard, who are also weighed by the recent accusations of labor abuse and sexual harassment towards their workers. .
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We don’t know if it’s a tool that, as they mention in their presentation on the company’s official website, King began developing in 2016 or it only comes to light as a way to clean up their image, but it presents the idea of a “a method of protecting against unconscious bias and exclusion when it comes to the creation of your games and characters,” citing Ana from Overwatch as an example, who is assigned points for aspects such as her culture, race, or sexual orientation, etc.
The tool, which, according to the statement, works “by assigning values to video game characters according to how diverse they are”, has been quite poorly received by the community, who, as we can see in posts made on Twitter, believe that it is ” one of the scariest things” that they have seen come out of any video game company, as mentioned by Mitch Dyer, who was a writer for the Star Wars: Squadrons and Battlefront II video games and who is currently working on the Gotham Knights title.
As reported on the Gamerfocus.co site, other users have also posted their annoyance with messages criticizing the idea, as well as using irony to laugh at it.
A tool that, despite having very good intentions, apparently should be reviewed by Activision Blizzard if it really seeks to deliver products that connect with the community, which in just its presentation has already criticized it in various ways.
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