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The range of answers to some of the questions felt too narrow to me and the framing of the questions sometimes made assumptions which the person answering it may not agree with when answering.

I won't go into too much detail as I'm typing on my phone rn. Not that I wouldn't like to.

Hopefully we can get more sexualization in video games, I don't see the problem in it. What ever happened to body positivity? Is it only allowed for people with a certain body type?

I answered it also! Everyone who is dealing with "Sophitia" problem, will you rather play as fatty, flat feminazi, or nice good looking women. Will you also want to play as fat, half bald man or strong fearless badass. Maybe just for fun. For laugh. Nobody wants to be like that, neither look for it. That is my opinion. Feel free to discuss.

That character wasn't that bad of an example though... I don't know, as a woman I don't really care about how they're dressed unless the sexualization is really obnoxious. She looked cool, and a woman being cool isn't bad. Same goes for sexualization of male characters.

Now women in the gaming community is a whole other can of worms though. I don't want to play online multiplayer only because I don't want to deal with thirsty guys harassing me.

Done.

i found the survey quite biased. the questions themselves already leaned in a certian direction and the answers didnt help either to express what i thought.
as a woman i think that there are indeed some ridiculous outfits or size of breasts but it doesnt really bother me... but i also think i was always capable at looking beyond "Visuals" at the game itself. also a lot of those women arent just good to look at, they are also depicted as strong or skilled... so isnt that good as well?

i dont often play multiplayers, but when i do there usually isnt much harassment. maybe 12 year olds thinking they are the shit or something... or starving guys hiding behind anonymity. maybe do some counter harassment and show them who is the boss. XD but really now... most ppl are quite kind and helpful.

How is this for undergrad and they can't spell the word "does"?

Apologies but I went full on rant about a completely (not unrelated topic but similar topic) unrelated topic at the bottom.

Long story short.
If the story fits the outfit, the outfit stays.
If it doesn't, yeet it.

Until Dawn of all things. Had a bitch wandering around in a towel for a small portion of the game because she just came out the bathtub. Story Ethic costume design.
Lady Gaga in her music video for Telephone. Bitch wearing only police tape for no damn reason, put on your damn prison costume, you're in prison not an art college costume party.

I was afraid this would be a crazy feminist survey, but even though it's short and the provided questions and answers are limited, I actually see their point to some extent.
Notably, the example picture is quite on the spot. While I don't think it's sexist or "shocking", as the same happens to both male and female characters, I do think it's freaking ridiculous and I don't get why so many fighting games have "soldiers" running half (or even 90%...) naked.

As for the "harassment" question, "in my time" people would just reveal no personal info online, so good luck then to make shitty jokes about their sex or origin or whatever.
Every medal has two sides: if you go around flashing your whole CV to the world, people will talk about it. Don't say anything, and you can be a transsexual Afro-American dog and noone will ever shove it to your face.

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Added my answers to the survey. Bump!

simple rule: don't fucking like it? don't fucking play it!

did you notice?
ever since the corona thing blew up people have real problems to worry about again. no more feminazis on tv demanding more women in top paying jobs (no word about lower paying jobs, obviously 90% men are just fine in that field of work). no more sjw bickering about this and that. no more crying about the correct pronouns being used for the very special snowflakes.
common sense is making a comeback (well, sort of) and all it took was a global health crisis.

The answers did seem somewhat limited sometimes. I feel that more options for each question would let people answer more appropriately, rather than trying to fit how they feel into the closest available answer.

But after filling it out and then seeing some of the comments here... wow.

Some questions made me feel like I don't agree with any answer. Like some questions, there is no solid answer, it depends of the context and game, then considering that limited answers possibilities, it may not result in the real opinion of whoever did that survey.

In the question "Do you think adding a seductive and beautiful female character is important in a game?", it depends on the game. For example, if you consider visual novels intended for audiences who want romantic interactions with attractive characters, having characters with appealing or purposefully sexy looks becomes one of the main features that makes the game good.

Considering the Soul Calibur fighting game, where the context gives no room for any kind of sexualization, it is clear that it is inappropriate. However it should be noted that in almost all games, just as there are female characters being overly sexy in out of context, there are also male characters being overly sexualised, with most of them following the same pattern as their respective genders, for example. Feminine visual appeal always involves cleavage and large breasts, or clothes that reveal excessively and unnecessarily their body. The same happens with male characters where the pattern in most of them is also the same, extremely strong and muscular with empty personalities that are filled with pure attitudes of wanting to show that they are the strongest and most masculine, aside from the fact that their visuals always highlight their muscles, in several cases, it is extremely common for these characters not to wear shirts or anything that covers their chest to exalt the exaggerated muscles.

Based on this previous argument, it is very likely that I am trying to balance both sides to show that sexualization happens on both sides. Which it is a fact! However, and that happens because some social factors.
People who play video games. This group is composed mostly of men. I don't want to explain why that is, because I believe it's unnecessary, it's self-explanatory to reflect on why boys are introduced to video games while girls are introduced to other things. The focus is that, the sexualization of both genres, incredible as it may seem, only serves to please the man. It may seem strange to say that male sexualization is not meant to please and attract the attention of women, but the point is that the industry has discovered exactly how the mind of the video game player base works (as noted earlier, it is composed mostly of men). Beautiful and sexy female characters, instantly pleasing men and attracting attention, and excessively strong male characters, is what most men always want to be or desire. It's not uncommon to hear a guy say, "This guy is so badass, I wanted to be like him," or even use him as an inspiration to be someone like him or act like him to fullfil the wish of feeling as much badass as him.

Gamers are so used to over-the-top sexualization that they are kinda desensitized to beautiful girls with realistic sex appeal - like those nerds who think Lara Croft was "sexier" in the 90s or Jill Valentine is "too masculine" in the remake.
I like pretty girls as much as anyone, I just believe the mainstream has a very narrow idea of what "pretty" means. Hypersexualization is boring because it's always the same kind of sexy. Meh.

EDIT: I'm not even that much into "realism" in every game, costumes and looks don't even need to "make sense" all the time, but fantasy doesn't need to look the same in every game ever

As a sociologist I can say that this survey is made badly and makes assumptions so it would not hold in any true debate and would be not used to do any research.

It probably is done to push an agenda.

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Stopped at the gender question.

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I have a simple rule for judging a game's character designs: if all your characters are in stupid, sexy outfits, including the men, you're fine. My understanding is that FFXIV lets everyone, regardless of gender, have both practical, cool outfits and ridiculous skimpy ones, which sounds perfect to me.

If all your dudes are a variety of ages and body types and have cool outfits suitable for fighting, and all your women are generic babes with boob windows cut into their shirts, then I do find that a bit annoying. That seems to generally be the case with fighting games from what I've seen, but I'm not an expert there. And there seem to be a lot of "grizzled middle aged dude" protagonists paired with prettier and younger women, which is also kind of dull. Give us a cool middle-aged woman like Susan Ashworth from The Cat Lady or a prettyboy like the guy from Resident Evil 4 for variety once in a while.

(And I hate boob jiggle animation 95% of the time, because that's just not how breasts work. I'm sorry. They look weird and it's distracting.)