User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-73.180.57.132-20140806051454/@comment-1888015-20140807012956

Anon, I get the point you're trying to say that since influential women in history were less common than their male counterparts, then as such, it shouldn't be expected that they are over-promoted. On the other hand, what Crook is trying to say is that Assassin's Creed should not be limited to having men all the time because men just so happened to be more common in establishing historical milestones, because Ubisoft can choose a protagonist from any sex, race and/or religious or non-religious qualities.

Now, when you consider the amount of games Ubisoft have made, and then you put on top of that the extended media, Ubisoft have like 14 male main protagonists to 1 female main protagonist.

It would do Ubisoft a world of good to stop using Aveline and her gender in specific as a shield to represent their ability to be diverse. 1 woman to 14 or so men is not convincing anyone that she's not a token project by this point.

We could do with seeing one or two more main female protagonists, not in a consequent manner, but not delayed either. I'm not a fussy person when it comes to the gender of the main character I play in a game. If anything, I may have some small preference when seeing a female character, solely because they're under-represented, but in the whole of things, I'd like to see the day where even if the majority of main characters in the game industry are male, there is at least a large chunk (a good 30-40%) of solidly represented female characters.