Animating the Ladies: Ubisoft fundamentally doesn’t get it » Cyborgology
▻http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/06/12/animating-the-ladies-ubisoft-fundamentally-doesnt-get-it
Animating men is easy but women? Pssh. The boobs are like, millions of dollars to get those things right because I’m pretty sure they don’t work according to physics? They’re like, ghost spheres or demon orbs. And don’t even get me started on vaginas. What even are vaginas? Where are they? Do they have powers?
Some of these quotes are here simply because it amuses me to include them, but there are additional technical aspects to this. Social-justice/diversity-minded gamers didn’t buy Therien’s explanation, but neither did some other developers. Ansh Patel of Narcissist Reality explicitly denied Therien’s claims about the difficulty and resources that would be needed to include a playable female character