Oh my, rant time!
As usual, social media is what it is. Whoever gets offended and demands diversity or sexual equality in games is dumb beyond the point of saving, just as anyone who thinks that those things should be achieved or debated when it comes to any form of art, including videogames. Especially when it is something that is trying to keep some degree of historical verosimilitude, but it doesn't even matter.
And it's as dumb and stupid as people who see a woman in armor in a medieval game and go nuts vomiting their shit about woke culture, agendas and forced diversity. Both extremes are so excruciatingly painfully dumb that it makes my heart skip a beat out of the sheer cringe feeling I get every time I read something like that.
It's a damn videogame, a form of art and entertainment that is an expression of whatever inspires the creator. Get a hint here: It doesn't have to be historically accurate, even if it happens in a relatable setting. It can be anything - If more songwriters are inspired by gay marriage, they will make songs about it, and if more game writers are inspired by their wet dreams about being the macho alpha and collecting a harem of horny young bimbos, then they will make games like that. If I don't like that type of product, that's fine! I just don't consume it! People need to stop embarrassing themselves and pretend it's their prerogative to decide or demand the content that other people are allowed to create and promote in their creations.
It's perfectly fine to prefer if there were more products of one or another kind. We know all about it here, we like a kind of niche game (thanks BG3 for trying to cahnge that!) and most here would wish there were more high-budget cRPGs. That's hardly a reason to lose one's mind over illuminati masonery red pill bullshit just because other people rather do what inspires them or what they think is more profitable instead. Anyone is free to make their own game, and implement exactly the features they prefer instead of behaving like a toddler on social media.
Uff, there. Rant done!
PS: It's not my preference that KCD had a male protagonist only. Still played it and enjoyed it a lot. Still will most likely play KCD 2 even if it can only have a male protagonist. Anyone who doesn't play a good game of a type they usually enjoy, just because it doesn't meet one of their dumb preferences, I can only advise them to set their priorities straight, people have only so much time in their lives dedicated to enjoyment, and that's what they're giving away while thinking they're making a point nobody gives a fuck about.
Now the rant is done.
And for the racial part, yeah, not much they could have done.
