Thankfully, we’ve seen this excuse fall out of favor among developers. This was conveniently after former Ubisoft animator Jonathan Cooper chimed in amid the controversy in June 2014 to say it would take “a day or two’s work” to add playable female models.
Nearly a decade ago, developers were making the same exact excuses, most notably back in 2014 when Ubisoft creative director Alex Amancio said Assassin’s Creed Unity wouldn’t feature female playable characters in its four-player co-op mode because it would add “a lot of extra production work.” Of course, future Assassin’s Creed games - including Syndicate, which was released a year later - featured female protagonists. We are sorry for caused confusion #EscapefromTarkov- Battlestate Games January 6, 2020īattlestate’s response here is not a new one. The employee was reprimanded and properly instructed.
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“There’s only place for hardened men in this place.” Battlestate has since said the employee was “reprimanded and properly instructed,” presumably only in how to talk to the press. “We came to the conclusion that women can’t handle that amount of stress,” Battlestate dev Pavel Dyatlov said at the time.
It’s also curious that Battlestate is only responding to the idea now because a three-year-old interview with an employee of the development team had been recirculating online in which the employee insisted women couldn’t cut it in the high-tension environment of Tarkov. The developer is getting predictably eviscerated on social media, especially considering its previous tweet seemed to suggest it had no problem animating in non-playable female characters for storyline quests, thus undermining its “lore” excuse. the huge amount of work needed with animations, gear fitting etc.”īut there will be no playable female characters because of game lore and more importantly - the huge amount of work needed with animations, gear fitting etc #EscapefromTarkov- Battlestate Games January 6, 2020 That’s despite the insurmountable narrative evidence of female characters who are present in pretty much every piece of post-apocalyptic fiction ever made - because, you know, women exist - and in basically every other military survival sim and battle royale shooter on the market.Įxcuse number two is a bit more forthright: “there will be no playable female characters because of. This time, it’s courtesy of Escape from Tarkov creator Battlestate Games, which offered two convenient excuses for why - despite the requests of many players - it will not let you play as a female character in its ultra-realistic military survival sim.Įxcuse number one is that, as the Russian-based developer explained on Twitter, playable female characters can’t be included “because of game lore.” It’s not exactly clear what that means, but Battlestate seems to be suggesting that its game, which is set in a fictional region of Russia and features an armed conflict between fictional private military companies, doesn’t have a narrative that supports female combatants. We’re in a brand-new decade, but that hasn’t stopped some video game developers from falling back on inexcusable explanations for why you can’t play as female characters in certain games.