#Rust video game femnale mod#

So I can, to some extent, sympathize with this sentiment. As someone who enjoys playing role-playing games, if I'm given the option I'll always create a character that I think looks cool. It's totally understandable that some people want to create their characters as they see fit. Not have some political movement shoved down my throat because you make the connection we can't choose our gender in reality so let's make it like that in game too.' This is what women and minority gamers have been complaining about for decades Here's one of the many messages we've received from disgruntled male players: 'Why won't you give the player base an option to choose their gender? I just want to play the game and have a connection to the character like most other games I play. With gender it seems to be more of a geography-free complaint. For example, most complaints about being black in the game have generally been from Russian players. Newman explained the situation in the Guardian, characterizing the reaction to the change as 'extreme':įor race, this seems to be a regional thing. Men, particularly white men, are not happy. So even if you're a white man in real life, you now may be forced to play a black woman. Instead, it's a new feature recently added to the game, which has 500,000 players each week, by developer Garry Newman: Your character's gender and race are now randomized. It's a tense game, one in which your friends can suddenly turn against you and basically ruin everything you worked for just for their own personal gain.īut it's not the betrayal and tension that has gamers upset with Rust. We look forward to introducing you to some of the strong female characters in Assassin's Creed Unity.Rust is a popular first-person survival video game where you start out completely naked, left to a barren environment to build yourself tools, weapons, and a home as other players try to do the same - and potentially try to kill you and steal your stuff. With regard to diversity in our playable Assassins, we've featured Aveline, Connor, Adewale and Altair in Assassin's Creed games and we continue to look at showcasing diverse characters. 'Assassin's Creed is developed by a multicultural team of various faiths and beliefs and we hope this attention to diversity is reflected in the settings of our games and our characters. 'We recognize the valid concern around diversity in video game narrative,' Ubisoft said at the time. It was originally suggested that creating female playable characters for Assassin's Creed Unity would have been too technically taxing, but Ubisoft issued a formal statement later on to explain the real situation. I'm not sure that flies, but I think it overall may have something to do with it-that boys tend to design for boys and women for women.' EA Studios executive Patrick Soderlund says, 'My thesis is that it's a male-dominated business.

The story features comments from executives at Activision, Ubisoft, and Electronic Arts. The role of women in games is making mainstream headlines, as the Associated Press today ran a story about why there are not more major games with leading ladies. 'I felt it was unfair to against a single company and stomping on them as if they invented sexism.' 'I am not against a conversation,' he said. In the end, Newman maintains that Ubisoft was unfairly singled out in this case. We don't have a procedure in place to give refunds to people offended by jokes on Twitter.' Newman said, also as a joke, 'You need to talk to steam support. Newman's comments today on Twitter were made to a person who asked if they could have a refund for Rust. Last week, as the news broke that Assassin's Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 would not have playable female characters, Newman controversially said, 'I never understand the misguided outrage of the self-elected video gamer feminists.' Someone then asked him if he planned to add female avatars to Rust, to which he-perhaps jokingly- replied: 'No, women are silly.' I'm against trying to force developers to add diversity.' 'I don't know why you think I'm against adding diversity. 'It would undoubtedly be good if there were more female protagonists in games, but rallying against games for not having any is insane, in my own personal opinion,' Newman said.

#Rust video game femnale mod#

Now, Garry's Mod and Rust developer Garry Newman has responded to the drama, stating his thoughts across a series of tweets today. The topic of female protagonists in video games has received much attention since Ubisoft controversially announced at E3 last week that Assassin's Creed Unity and Far Cry 4 would not have playable female characters.