I find the f2p argument frustrating and not a little confusing. It’s just deeply hypocritical.
And similarly the weird take on character design is absolutely linked to this surge in the gamergate Ideology which I find very disturbing. I read a review from a prominent site which said they were ugly and I thought they meant the art style. But there’s nothing wrong with the quality or style of the character design. The characters, if anything, are more interesting to me because they’re old, or overweight, or otherwise like the people that play bloody games.
What this reviewer and almost anyone I’ve seen spouting this drivel is objecting to is a predominantly female line up (but is also inclusive in other ways) that has an abundance of normal, real life body shapes, and they’ve got their backs up about bloody pronouns.
It’s really fucking irritating. Fuck em all. It’s one of the reasons I bought into it, purely because fuck em. The other being that given that I believe the subscriptions have fundamentally devalued the art form, as much as f2p has, it would be hugely hypocritical of me not to buy into a really good game that is doing everything it can to appease me in that regard.