https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-her-ass-is-part-of-her-character.275780/page-180#post-73017610
Project eve gonna kill this thread.
They're so mad that even a single game like this exists.
That's what gets me. For a long time, the standard response was "we don't want to take away your titty games, we just don't want them everywhere". A very reasonable sentiment and one even I'd agree with at times purely because it can get redundant. That has since transformed into "this just shouldn't exist period because rape culture!"
But whatever, they're screaming into the void at this point. AAA western studios may be moving away from it, but they hold no power over a Korean one that are probably getting more praise than derision from the target audience. If Project Eve is a good game, it starring scantily dressed titty lady isn't going to be a talking point that gets back to them.
The thing is, they won, at least in the west. Female characterization from AAA western games has completely bent to their will. All they have left to bitch about is the occasional exposed skin of a female character in a western game (which totally doesn't make them ultra conservative, sex negative prudes, they swear!) and obscure games from Asia that have niche audiences. They are scraping at the bottom of the barrel to justify that thread's existence and their righteous anger at all the "sexism" in video games.
How are they any different from the those crazy, obnoxious ultra conservative people that see a woman in a bikini as "sinful" and who think all porn needs to be banned for "moral" reasons? As far as I am concerned, those people and ResetERA are two sides of the same fucked up coin. Both are sex negative prudes, and each are approaching the same conclusions but from opposite ideological starting points.
I don't disagree with your categorization of them, but as far as them "winning", it's kind of a mixed bag. Gamergate came and went, elevating people like Anita to the level of adviser for some high profile games, but it feels like the effects are really only felt at the highest level and the journalist arm (certainly not the office culture all things considered). The internet as a whole is still REALLY horny, arguably more than ever before. Artists, content creators, and (completely defying a ton of discourse around the "male gaze") female-dominated fields like vtubers. It's not changing anytime soon either. When it comes to talking about games, Era is an island alongside the outlets that cater to them.
And then there's the places where this kind of criticism is ignored (some indie devs like Huniepot) or doesn't reach at all (the non-western world). With massive success stories like Genshin Impact (and region-specific stuff like Crossfire), I can see China becoming a major contender over the next decade in gaming, and they don't give a shit about this puritanical nonsense. Add that on to the growing presence of Korean developers and the already prominent Japanese ones completely dominating the mobile scene with horny shit and I don't expect any of this to go away.
Like yeah, it sucks we won't see Kratos being a deranged lunatic anymore where he fucks a bunch of women then kills them horribly to solve a switch puzzle, but that's just how things go. I don't know, maybe it's less noticeable for me since western games were rarely my thing in the first place outside of a select few. My "things were better in my day" war has mostly been centered around gameplay rather than lack of sexy.
