imagine, if you will, being able to create a diverse cast of characters with surgical precision, and then being utterly incapable of using them to tell a compelling story
activision blizzard's tool is horribly broken and simply will not work for its intended purpose because the way it attempts to model diversity (as a flat metrical unidirectional deviation from a norm) does not in any way actually model diversity
BUT EVEN IF IT WORKED, like, you have all these diverse characters, what do you do now?
hand them over to your straight white male writing team to try to build something out of??
like this would only work IN THEORY if you then went and hired writers whose identities at least somewhat matched the identities you defined
nintendo has also started doing this which is the only reason i care
@Lady with a secondary goal of immunizing themselves from criticism by hiding behind their artificially cultivated diversity when someone has legitimate criticism of something like their labor practices
anyway the goal of activision blizzard isn't to tell interesting stories or make good art but to produce highly-optimized fandom bait which manages to target as broad of an audience as possible with as little investment necessary from the relevant team, i just personally find it to be a repugnant approach to storytelling is all