SEGA: Player Survey For Next Steps For Sonic, Valkyria Chronicles, Phantasy Star And More

Male or Female.

the way God intended.

@noneallnoneall6165 Idk. I’m not saying they aren’t allowed to do it, I just don’t see the point. If this were on social media, with friends or in a debate-type setting, whatever, I could see it. But all it’s going to do here is make people feel unwelcome in a moment where they are probably not even thinking about their gender, or what other people think of it. Especially the “My time is too precious to waste playing along with lunacy” comment seems so uncalled for to me.

I guess I can’t fathom why someone would gent bent out of shape about the idea that non-binary people are playing SEGA or Nintendo games alongside them. I have my own political opinions and you can probably guess where they align, but unless somebody starts throwing N-words around or says some messed-up shit, I’m not going to question or attack anybody’s stuff first. I’d much prefer the gaming experience itself be seperate from all this stupid shit, and again, I just can’t fathom someone finding out someone on their Overwatch team is non-binary (after asking their gender first, e.g. some stupid “Are you a boy or a girl” question when the tone of their voice is ambiguous) and going “´This is really important for me to question and fight with the person about right now, more important than just winning and having a good time”, which is something I’ve seen happen. Probably not comparable to this situation, just reminds me of that.

Anyway, as for your ludicrous comment at the end: Do you really think that’s what they’re going to do? Discard the entries from everyone who checked the “non-binary” box? Lmao, what the fuck. Pretty sure there are people at SEGA who legitimately want to be inclusive. And even from the corporate angle – More data is always better, they’re not just gonna throw it out because of some vendetta. Additionally, if you can be ahead of a trend as a company, then you’re going to have more information on how to cater to more people.
For example, even if the majority of people still identify as male or female and your protagonists are still all a man or a woman, you can then think “5% of people are non-binary, maybe we should put a gender-ambiguous side character in our game”. Not saying I endorse that kind of half-assed representation, just saying it’s something they can do, and it works. Heck, some people latch onto Waluigi because his clothes are the colors of the non-binary pride flag. Humans are weird, but what I’m saying is companies aren’t going to turn down a group of people because of petty beliefs like that if they can capitalize off of being inclusive.

@Timmey The reason why they want to share it here is simple: they hear this progressive shit all day and then, when they want a break and go to a survey of their favorite gaming company, they find that shit here as well. That creates some really unpleasant feeling, which is imo totally understandable and the desire to share those feelings with other gamers who may relate to this is imo understandable as well. As for the last sentence of my response, tbh it was more of a censorship test than anything else. Unfortunately, I have to agree with your last sentence. It’s true that capitalistic companies usually do anything to generate profit, including accepting whatever shit “progressives” come up with.

Since you’ve made quite a long comment and I feel it’s redundant to comment every single line of it, I’ll sum it up. Your main argument here is that you’re not limiting us and that you just want your identity to be acknowledged. Which is the main point of struggle here, because I refuse to accept that there’s anything other than a male and a female (excluding a very low percentage of people with chromozome or other DNA deviation, which is what mainstream calls intersex; however, such people should choose to be either a male or a female depending on what they feel like when they’re old enough to be suitable to say that – which should be around the end of pubescence). There’s simply no way how you can be born a male and be a woman. As a male, your brain is in some ways different than that of a female and therefore you can never be a true woman. Of course, there are people saying that male and female is the same, but just get out of your bubble for a moment and you’ll see that it’s not. I could give you more arguments on that matter, but I think you don’t care about that since you don’t even agree with the fact that your gender should match your sex in the first place. You may say that I’m saying that “cisgender” is a norm. And in fact, yes, I am. It always was a norm, since this is a way in which we were created by nature. And I don’t see any reason, why gender shouldn’t match your sex. If you are a more-feminine-than-usual male, for example, you can still be a male without any problem. Not a masculine male, of course, more of a soft male, but you still can (and you should, by the way, since our brain is programmed in a way to match our sex and so if we set our gender to the opposite sex, it creates a psychological tension that results in a depressions in a long run). The fact that you’re not matching the usual settings of your sex doesn’t mean you should identify as the other one or as some “third” one or what not. And that’s the main thing I’ve a problem here with, I don’t see any reason why one should identify as a non-binary.

Due to the fact that I think there’s only a male and a female, including non-binary seems more political to me than not doing so (and it’s also not respecting what we’ve had here for decades, that is only 2 genders, so that’s another reason why it feels political to me).

Please let me know if there’s anything that doesn’t make sense to you, so that I can clarify it.

I’d like to thank you for the calm, intelligent discussion here. Also, I’d like to suggest to move our discussion out of this website (should you want to continue, that is) to a more comfortable platform – let’s face it, WordPress comments aren’t the most user-friendly way of communication. We can share a Discord tags in private, if you’d like.