Quote Originally Posted by kyuven View Post
You missed the point. It's not about how the players within the game see each other. We don't care, by and large.
It's how the people OUTSIDE the game see it.
The people reviewing resumes of the artists that designed the outfits.
The stockholders and bosses looking at the game.
The very, VERY vicious Japanese media looking for something to write a derisive article about on a slow news day.
Remember, there are games out there that get a bad rap for actions you CAN take in the game (such as your ability to mow down civilians in games like GTA and the Elder scrolls games, despite most of the actual story of the game not directing you to do such) that aren't even close to the focus.
So again, it has nothing to do with the players of the game, it has to do with those NOT playing the game that either have big wallets or loud mouths (or both)
Something REMOTELY controversial in Japan can torpedo your company's stock prices.
When Ayumi Hamasaki, a famous Japanese singer, had to announce that she was going deaf in one ear, the stock price for her company shot down like a rocket.
So do you have actual video game examples where cross dressing caused civil unrest among the Japanese stockholder population? How did the vicious Japanese media react to Eternal Bonding between two characters of the same gender? Also, if you, as a player, admit to not care "by and large," why are you going to such lengths to adamantly argue against this?

I suppose you are correct. Perhaps there is something I am missing.