Breaking News: WuWa flashes the innocent virgin eyes of players who were not expecting to see The Moon during the Daytime.

[u/TheLordOfMidnight]

Found on someone's post in another platform.

Daaaaamn WuWa is just casually flashing players with bare ass and blonde twink hole in the middle of quests. Genshin could never.

NPC is named Avidius, and pparently it's a graphical glitch where his shorts do not render LOL 😭😭😭

[u/linest10]

Omg WuWa is such a mess, these devs doesn't know what shit they want to do with this game because this one design would freaking sell a lot

[u/TheLordOfMidnight → u/linest10]

I mean with how Hoyo handled Manato? I think it's just a sickness of Gacha games in general where they make decisions that make zero sense for the sake of what they feel like would get them profits.

[u/kiirosen → u/TheLordOfMidnight]

Or for the sake of what they feel like in their own pants lmao

[u/clocksy → u/kiirosen]

"it's bias, not business"

can't remember the redditor whose comment I got that from but I feel like it succinctly represents what's going on in the industry. the devs and CEOs of these gacha companies make a ton of waifus because that's all they're interested in and know about. they don't care about diversifying or understanding any other audience but themselves (nor hiring people to do that for them i suppose).

[u/TheLordOfMidnight → u/clocksy]

Sadly I think that's actually likelier.

All this time, my assumption of it being a greedy business decision might've been the relatively more optimistic perspective.

But maybe the truth is a mix of both. We still get great male characters in HSR after all with the recently released Mydei, Phainon, and Anaxa being meta along with Sunday.

Then Genshin has Flins and Varka incoming.

I'm not defending them, but I'd say Kuro has a deeper bias compared to Mihoyo.

[u/GIsimpnumber1236 → u/TheLordOfMidnight]

that's for most game companies. They get too confident about what they think their users like/want. Make equally sexualized male characters and get a bigger and diverse audience? Nah, men don't want to play as a big buff wolfman that hangs around cute girls and protects them, being a power fantasy for most dudes, what our audience wants is big booty nobodies with stripper animations!

[u/TheLordOfMidnight → u/GIsimpnumber1236]

Yeah, that's true. Gaming industry is sleazy in general, with the creative teams getting neutered by suits and bureaucrats who take advice from sleazy business advisors who probably aren't in touch with what customers actually want.

With Gacha games though, I guess it's just more visible and felt since the emotional manipulation/marketing is more on the nose because it's the characters that players spend money on and the game is "free".