Biomechtric, on 04 October 2020 - 11:58 PM, said:
& how do you know what colour someones skin is from the sound of their voice?
You maybe know a few people personally from MWO but definitely not enough to come to the conclusion that most are one colour or the other, not even the proportion of male to female players.
This all smells a bit too much of that 'Twitch Deer/Lady/boy' thing to me & that's a rotten stench that no one should every have been subjected to.
I'm not going to get into a big debate over this with people trying to be woke...It's been brought up in threads over the years that this game has a niche base, most of us are fully aware of what that base looks like- if that bothers you, I really don't know what to tell you. I'd be willing to bet if you could figure out who bought gold mechs and who bought the most mech packs over the years, it'd support this widely presumed premise, one which I didn't come up with mind you- only pointed out in this particular conversation.
If you really care that much, ask people who've been to Mech Con, perhaps the general consensus is in fact wrong and it wasn't a sea of white bodies. I don't personally care, other than the fact that I wish the game were able to be marketed to a broader base, which is an issue with any niche IP, particularly one this old. BT isn't Star Wars/Trek, where you have a huge, diverse pool of fans all willing to spend money.
It's not about the race, or even gender, it's more about age ranges. I'm sure there's some younger people playing MWO, though most were probably introduced by parents or older siblings/friends. But a generation raised on today's graphics and gameplay are going to have a harder time being patient with MWO's flaws than us old-heads who've usually seen worse somewhere, and just gotta get our big stompy robot fix. If you guys want to continue to try to tear me apart for my wording, have at it, but I said my bit, made my point, I'm leaving it alone to avoid further drama and triggering. If I'm wrong I'm wrong. I doubt it though.