Activision Blizzard showed a tool for creating “representative” characters – gamers are furious

When a gamer is sincerely dissatisfied with something, it certainly deserves it.

Activision Blizzard has been doing anything in recent years, but not forcing its teams to create decent games. So, today the holding is once more at the center of a big scandal, this time caused by a story regarding the controversial Diversity Space Tool for evaluating and creating “representative” characters in video games.

The tool, which Activision Blizzard appears to be using in its future and content-supported projects, assesses a character’s body type, culture, nationality, age, various abilities or limitations, sexual orientation, and gender identity. .

As an example, Activision Blizzard cited Ana from Overwatch: the tool rated her as a heterosexual, slender, elderly Arab woman from Egypt with a missing eye.

Gamers, of course, went into a real rage. According to them wordsit is necessary to deal with games, and not with various instruments that painfully resemble not so distant times in the historical perspective, when some people considered themselves superior to others.

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The flame of indignation turned out to be more like an inferno, and its tongues burned the representatives of the holding. As a result, the company had to apologize and declare that the tool is not used in game development. Why is it needed then – that’s the main question now.

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