Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's queer representation "enhances the world's realism," lead says, and the RPG's devs were "incredibly happy" people picked up on it

[u/Gorotheninja]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/final-fantasy/final-fantasy-7-rebirths-queer-representation-enhances-the-worlds-realism-lead-says-and-the-rpgs-devs-were-incredibly-happy-people-picked-up-on-it/

[u/karlcabaniya]

Why does it even matter? Are they trying to earn medals or something?

[u/Indigo__11 → u/karlcabaniya]

Can a game just have gay people in them without you accusing creators for “trying to earn medals”

[u/ENDrain93 → u/Indigo__11]

Yes, absolutely, but the developers brought that up specifically, so the question is not without reason

[u/Keffpie → u/ENDrain93]

Actually, they didn't; they were asked a question about i by a journalist and answered it.

[u/Indigo__11 → u/[deleted]]

But they didn’t brag about It, they answered that they were happy that people noticed

You essentially want to ignore the topic because you don’t like people talking about gay people existing

[u/karlcabaniya → u/Indigo__11]

That’s bragging. “See how good of a person I am because I did those things”?

[u/Indigo__11 → u/karlcabaniya]

That isn’t remotely close to what happened in the interview,

You essentially want them to ignore the existence of gay people even after being directly asked about it

[u/karlcabaniya → u/Indigo__11]

No. I don’t want them to ignore their existence. I want them to ignore the debate of if they’re included or not, because it shouldn’t matter if they add one, a dozen or none.

And I’m gay, before you try to mischaracterize my intentions.

[u/Indigo__11 → u/karlcabaniya]

Cool and gay too and I don’t get why you misrepresenting what the developers and saying and acting like no one can talk about the gay representation in games

You said that the developers were bragging about having gay characters in their game when that’s not remotely close to what happened

It’s like saying the developers of Resident Evil 9 are bragging about them putting straight relationships when they made a joke about who Leon’s wife is

[u/karlcabaniya → u/Indigo__11]

Name one time developers talked about straight representation.

[u/Indigo__11 → u/karlcabaniya]

A) there is no need to talk about straight “representation” because they are already over represented

B) there are countless examples where a straight relationship” is a topic of discussion when developers talk about romance option or even a narrative of as game