IGA Gamasutra interview | August 21 2017

Article writers and interviewers slip their biases in all the time, and its especially easy when the interviewee speaks a different language and has to be translated. If someone calls the out they can hide behind stuff like "well maybe we didn't get a good translator" etc. 

That being said, I'd like to add a bit to Angel's re-interpretation of Iga's words about female leads" not being as risky". its true, big name games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Neir: Automata came out and were huge successes with leading ladies, and that makes me really happy considering it hasn't been that long since something like that was almost unheard of. A little while back there was a little game called Remember Me. It turned out to be a rather meh game, but the controversy around it was pretty important: with the devs revealing they had to fight their publisher constantly on keeping Nilin as the main character, when the publisher was convinced people would not buy games staring women. Then there's the whole "we made the cover of Bioshock Infinite without Elizabeth on it despite her importance because we focus tested different covers and the teenage boys we spoke to didn't want her on the cover".

I just think its important to remember that the reason we can get female protagonists like Miriam so easily and with increasing frequency now is because only a few years ago people had to seriously fight for female leads and prove people would buy them.

Publishers needing things proved to them is honestly a running theme with this game really. People don't want platformers? Guess what, this platformer made over 5 million dollars. People don't want women leads? Well said platformer that made over 5 mil has a woman lead.

Anytime we can slap the industry over their untrue preconceived nonsense is cool by me. Especially when said notion is easy to disprove. I mean, if leading women don't sell games, I'd love to see long runners like Metroid or Tomb Raider explained away. 

The PC crowd isn't just feminists. In fact a large majority of them don't care about feminists or they are against the feminists(not in a way meaning they dislike women, they just don't like people like Anita Sarkisian,) the reason you probably think that is because as pc gamers they have more freedom and they have a bigger voice then people on a console would.