Representation is suffering in DBD

So far so good. Hopefully it gets snuffed out within the next year or so then we can all go back to enjoying games because they are fun and not because a 36 year old licence didnt change their characters around to please someone that doesnt like their licence to begin with

oh wow. And I wanted to stay quite on here…

90% of the world at least, is non-LGBTQ. 

and you got that number from where? And how certain are you that within this 90 % there is no one in the closet because well… look at the world (not only the western progressive cities but the whole world), also keep in mind how many characters there are in DbD.
And remember the fact those characters are not randomly chosen by the Entity if you want to look from a lore side of it.

The point I'm making is that it's insanely out of ratio

is it though? DbD is known for having a big LGBTQ+ community. And especially for the Fig Whisperers program there are plenty of queer folks and even those that are not are known to be allies afaik. Also.. trying to dictate which content creators they should chose and which not is kinda weird..

If you really want a fair, non biased way to add "variety" to your game, grab the percentage of people that exist in a certain ethnicity or sexuality irl.

no one is asking for that though. Fair is a very subjective word and your definition doesn’t seem to be the objective truth at all.

Btw, are you mad about the overrepresentation of white characters compared to the actual world population?

And I say, since when does it matter? Why are we so obsessed with a bunch of pixels on the screen having sexualities? If you're so obsessed with your sexuality that it determines the character you play, that's an issue that you need to resolve.

you are just as much -if not more- obsessing about it here, aren’t you? Especially considering that just having the charms isn’t equal to having characters

I don't think straight people mind playing David, so why should gay people mind playing someone else?

no one said that lgbtq+ people only play respective lgbtq+ characters. though there have been plenty of people on here that directly exclaimed they stopped playing David because of the reveal of his sexual orientation. You can search for it here with any lgbtq+ topics on this forums created during the time of that reveal and see for yourself.

Since when is representation so massively important? 

it’s always been important, especially for people ‚outside the norm‘ so they can feel like there is nothing wrong with them for being who they are. That’s also why we don’t need direct statistical representation. We are talking about media, characters, that are not real people. especially main characters are never just representative of the statistical ‚norm‘ but show very specific traits and also rare ones.

fact is, BHVR has stated themselves that they care about representation and inclusion and they want to create more LGBTQ+ characters though haven’t delivered at all. Susie is only confirmed in outside media so we only have one single original character that’s gay out of.. how many characters are there now? And there is also non-playable/story-only characters taking it way more out of proportion.

as for the choices for this specific chapter, i think everyone agrees that they chose fitting ones when just looking at appearance. But characters are more than just gender, skin and hair colors. And even then, Mikaela’s hair doesn’t represent the character from Castlevania well enough. I bet there would be some character that would fit Haddie or Elodie just as much as Mikaela fit this character. (We all know why Mikaela was actually chosen and I think no one wants to argue against the cash cow, but it shouldn’t be completely overshadowing everything else)

Why do you say ridiculous like that's a bad thing?

Also by several, you mean 2, right? We got Susie and David. The other characters that are LGBT like Tubarao are from other IPs, not DBD.

I just think it'd be cool to have more canon LGBT characters. I personally wanna see a trans woman be added specifically, since I'm a trans woman myself. People feeling represented in the games they play is a good thing, it helps people feel included and connect to a game.

Watch any chapter reveal that happened recently

It’s very obvious they’re picking people based upon characteristics and anyone saying otherwise is just being wilfully ignorant. The content creators BHVR promotes do not represent the actual demographic of this game’s top content creators.

Not saying I’m against it. I’ve found some great content creators from BHVR’s streams, but the trend is noticeable.

Way I see it, it doesn't really matter to me what a survivor's sexuality is, because they're going to get stomped to death by a perverted fat clown, among other really brutal and terrible ways to die, no matter who or what they are.

I'm LGBT but, speaking solely for myself, I don't care much for representation. Would it be nice if there was a character that shared my traits? Sure, I guess, but this is a horror game, so such things are not very important to the themes of terror and brutality. And more importantly, for anyone to accuse BHVR of not caring about the LGBT community is straight-up laughable.

The characters in the game have backstories, and who someone loves is a pretty damn big part of someone's life. The survivors specifically are meant to be regular people whisked away from their lives, and the deeper their backstory, the more built up of a character they are. The point is they're meant to be mostly regular people, which isn't necessarily true about the killers obviously.

Reducing sexuality to purely "who sticks genitals in who" is kind of a crass way of thinking about it, since for a lot of people, romantic attraction goes hand in hand with that. Love is a pretty core human experience, and extremely driving for a character.

We can't keep sexuality out of the game at this point. It'd involve a serious amount of retconning, long before the first canon LGBT character was introduced. It's also pretty curious that people weren't up in arms over Felix having a wife and kid, but the second people start talking about LGBT representation it's "keep sexuality out of video games!!!!!!!!!" all of a sudden.

Also side note, why do you relate to the ideals of a guy, who given infinite power, decided to kill half the universe instead of making resources limitless???

Give me a pretty male that's an original survivor with lots of cute and pretty cosmetics, thanks… an archetype we've not gotten yet I feel, Trickster is the only character like that.

That's all I've been asking for for years.

Ugh… this game has gone so insanely far out to give as much representation as possible to the point where they have flags for every letter of the alphabet and that still isn't enough. Jesus man.

Representation does matter. That’s a fact and there are plenty of research articles out there validating that. No one said those characters are real people either, and they don’t have to be. And no one realistically asks for ‚equal‘ representation - but direct exclusion is something that should be frowned upon (and DbD actually started with direct exclusion of anything LGBTQ+ related while including plenty of heterosexual contents for some time - luckily they don’t do that anymore)

Just because you are part of the LGBTQ+ community doesn’t mean you can or should talk about them as a whole. It’s okay if you don’t care. But plenty of people (LGBTQ+ or not) DO very much care about these things. To the point where many of those that ‚don’t care‘ start to boycott things for just existing. People relate to characters, it’s always been a thing, and especially in DbD the characters have well established lore, background stories, lives.

also, Lambert being trans matters! That doesn’t mean everyone should focus on it or be aware about it. But i can guarantee you that there are people out there that are angry about this fact or even deny it and there are people out there that celebrate this or just like this.

Also also, Dwight has not been confirmed straight.