It's not just that she's female. Laura Croft is adored. The problem is that she's a gender swap and an unlikeable person. But regardless you thinking that gamers aren't morally justified in their disintrest doesn't bring in a cent worth of extra revenue.
Make games for the audience you have.
It's completely normal. You just wish it wasn't. But it is and it will only get worse the more you push the issue.
It's an amazing shit test which filters out a remarkably high percentage of bad content.
If someone thinks that the most unacceptable thing ever is media that doesn't involve themselves being viewed by other people then they will not make good content. Woke games suck for sure because woke topics are retarded and boring. But the people pushing these values end up making bad decisions that aren't even related to social policy or philosophy.
Veilguard was horrifically written, had awful gameplay, and the characters were actually bad people who acted like kids despite being in their 20s. Most of the characters were ugly. And the toxic positivity internally made it so that no course correction could happen until it was far too late and the game was being mocked even by gender-nonconforming people who recognized how morally bankrupt the characters were. Literally any sane person could have told them but likely the people willing to say anything had already been fired and replaced long ago. Hence why it was great that Bioware got nuked and everyone got fired. We call this a hard reset.
xD You're not going to shut me up. I will continue to make it abundantly clear what media I'm willing to pay for and what media I'm not willing to pay for. And when a studio refuses to provide me with what I want and goes under since my preferences aren't uncommon. I will cheer at their demise and again make it clear what I want produced if I'm going to give up my money.
And sooner or later I will get a game worthy of paying for. If you were in the majority my stance wouldn't be important. But you know that you are part of a fringe minority trying to socialize values into gamers and I cannot stress this enough.
These games actively make people hate gay people more. Literally just let us not care and we will live separate lives. Forcibly involve us and we will hate you for it.
Are you retarded? Of course it should. The food you make makes the house smell a certain way. Cleaning supplies have their own scent. If you smoke then it will smell of ciggs. Literally everything about a person gets captured by the smell of the property.
And their personal life IRL is completely irrelevant to the story of my life. Especially their romantic life. I want stories that are relevant to me. Gay storylines aren't that and I I'm not funding them either even "as an option". Gay people can fund whatever they want but this has fuckall to do with what media I engage in.
They want to control the media I consume and I want to control the media I consume.
These are polar opposites and I am morally justified in only buying products that give me what I want.
It's not the wests job to fix Haiti. That is a job for the Haitians themselves. And they should be allowed to fail.
I'm not expecting anyone to not exist. I'm expecting stories where they aren't relevant to the plot and thus don't come up.