The Gamer Babies are at it again
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Must be in response to something that Creative Assembly recently changed, right? Nope!
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It’s all about an update that added more female generals to the game, all the way back in *March*. No one seemed to care much then - just some polite discussions about historical accuracy on the Steam forumshttps://www.totalwar.com/blog/desert-kingdoms-patch-notes …
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Shit started getting heated and argumentative, though. Especially when someone posted this screenshot, seemingly showing every single general being a woman.pic.twitter.com/nv72Y7EdVN
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CA’s community manager Ella had to step in - issuing bans, closing threads, and telling a few noisy arseholes… “Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate - if having female units upsets you that much you can either mod them out or just not play.”
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Oh fuck! Female representation, and an assertive woman in power? That’s woman squared! That’s numberwang!!
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This all got picked up by the usual subjects - like a GamerGate friendly blog called OneAngryGamer. Which then got referenced on, drum roll please!, the neo nazi site Daily Stormer. No links, these sites don’t need oxygen
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Choo choo. So anyway, NOW suddenly it’s a big deal. It’s only now after the articles were published that the review bombing began. And the Steam forums become a complete shit show.pic.twitter.com/uCOUeuDKFr
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A lot of the hate is directed towards Ella and calling for her to make a public apology video, or be fired. I don’t need to remind you of the history of Gamers campaigning to get women fired from the games industry, do I.pic.twitter.com/gRL0nGATAQ
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But the whole thing is so dumb! Someone on Steam extracted the code that decided how frequently female generals pop up, for each factions. For some it’s impossible. Most have a very low (11-16%) chance. Only the Kush has a high chance, at 50% female.https://steamcommunity.com/app/214950/discussions/0/1735465524714378919/?ctp=8#c1735465524715436034 …
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And so that screenshot? Well it’s probably just a really low probability outcome to have so many women. And it doesn’t show that there are more generals to pick from (there are arrows). So one dumb screenshot leads to a manic hate campaign, involving actual nazis.
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And the annoying this is that this is a perfectly reasonable thing to discuss. Maybe those numbers are a bit off? How accurate do we expect historical games to be? But the whole thing just becomes a huge fight against assholes who get told who to review bomb by, again, nazis.
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To end this thread on a happier note, CA have issued a statement that basically just reads “suck it, Gamer Babies”https://twitter.com/totalwar/status/1044548704777252864 …
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