User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-5174994-20150512182658/@comment-13471981-20150513053519

"On the topic of adding more ethnicities or females as main protagonist, I repeat what I have said in my previous posts, I don't see the interest if they are created only by virtue of their origin or sex and not because they are construtive pieces for the story but only to appease people who see sexism or racism everywhere."

Duh, of course I'd want the characters, whatever their ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation may be, to fit nicely with the story and not have them just "for diversity's sake". You make it sound as though that's really difficult when I really don't think it is. I'd like to point out we've already seen what appears to be an Indian Assassin in Syndicate's pre-alpha footage, who could just as well have been the protagonist for the game (not that I'm particularly bitter that he isn't). But I digress, this discussion has gone on long enough.

(Also anon, while there may be things to like and dislike about Feminist Frequency's Anita Sarkeesian, she still has a point that the videogame industry has an issue with diverse characters and the sooner that changes, the better)