@homestar99: I have to point out the irony of complaining about Americans not being willing to read while you guys apparently didn't read this article. They are looking to make an adaptation of The Girl in the Spider's Web, which doesn't have an original movie version. There are four books in the series and movie/tv adaptations have only been made of the first three.
@spamisgud: Again, what is your criteria for "original story"? There is no "original story" because there's no source material here. No book, no comic, no movie this is a remake of. These are new characters that they are making up for this movie. The characters are whoever they creators of the film say they are, but you seem to have created a completely arbitrary distinction of "well, if at some point in the creation process the character was supposed to be white and they changed it by casting a black actor" then cry foul because it must be the PC police.
@Bread_or_Decide: Agreed. The idea that there's a "default" of "white male" for protagonists and that if you deviate from that pattern then you have an agenda is pretty ridiculous.
@UltimateBastard: Yeah, you don't see the comments that we had to delete...
There have been numerous studies that have been showing the gap between the number of male and female gamers narrowing for years now. Most studies put the ratio of male to female gamers as being split pretty close to down the middle. There's a similar perception that games are mostly for the young even though the average age of gamers is closer to 35.
Do I think that if you interviewed every single console owner in the country you'd find more women than man? Maybe not, but that's not what this means. What the data tends to show is the difference is close enough that when you take a random sample the results of who comes out on top changes.
Perception and reality aren't always the same thing.
@UltimateBastard: To whom, exactly? People tend to get bent out of shape when a piece of data says something different from what they think they already know.
I wonder how many people in the comments would be complaining about the sample size and the innacuracy of statistics if the result had come back saying the opposite?
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