Writing A Paper on the Subject of Corporate Shilling For "Diversity" For Profit

Hello Holla Forums, I'm trying to write a paper I have free reign on, but I'm having trouble finding "viable" sources according to the prompt for my subject.

I'm trying to write a paper that argues that the recent trend of pushing for "diversity" in the video game industry that is motivated purely for profit and pandering and how I feel its only doing more damage rather than a natural incorporation of "diverse peoples" such. Basically I want to write about characters and games that would follow the rubric of being "diverse" but are well written and actually believable over many instances in which characters are written in an attempt to pander to certain groups with these "lol i'm gay" characters that are that and nothing more.

I'm asking here because I can't find any "viable sources" (just usual anti-gamer tripe), and I figure that Holla Forums would have people with better minds and examples than I do. The only requirement is that the sources have to be "viable", meaning from websites ending in .gov or .edu. and have to be from newspapers and magazine websites. It's all normalfag tier stuff (as the paper will be), but I thought I'd ask here for better sources than just crap found on google. In the meantime, i'll be searching various databases and such.

Another reason why i'm writing is because there seems to be very little articles or works on this sort of stuff that doesn't fall in line with the usual "gamers are dead" crap.

Thank you in advance.

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Also I forgot to add, I was going to use New Vegas and Rainbow Six: Siege as examples as games that fit the rhetoric of the new age game journo's agenda, but are works with merit and how some (like Siege) are ignored because of how it doesn't offend them (or how their lack of ability at games ensures they wont spend much time on it).

Then do look for those viable sources elsewhere. Thanks for ruining those trips asshat.

Don't forget EA's reaction to Mass Effect 3 criticism.

Good luck, bud.

Yeah, I figured I'd get jack shit from there, but you never know I guess…

This prompt sounds like you're in high school or earlier, which means you're underage. You also have no idea how to take a viable source and use it to prove the opposite point, or to use a different industry (like film) to find ammunition.
This isn't video games. Fuck off.

The sweet, uncomprehending innocence of little ones such as yourself.

Yeah, that requirement means you're going to get very little of anything. 99% of people who would be posting papers related to that on sites with .gov/.edu are going to be the very same type of "intellectuals" who are doing the diversity pushing in the first place.

Lolno, it's purely ideological. Diversity doesn't sell.

No, not under age, but I can't find shit other than "diversity will help everyone articles" so I figured you niggers would be able to point me in the right direction, but i'll concede your point. I might do diversity as a whole instead.


Then do you know of examples of games have directly failed as a result of this? This too can be of use. I only know of a couple, and they're pretty weak examples. I'm trying to argue that they're using diversity as a marketing tool to try and sell shittier products at the cost of the quality of the games.

I'd advise framing it differently - e.g artistic license propelled by IRL experiences to draw on that gives it the ring of authenticity versus identity politics propped up by critical theory that is unable to stand up to critical scrutiny. Right now your paper seems to be in danger of being dismissed outright; better to follow basic principles of trolling, even though you do have a point to make at the end. That would be a paper I'd enjoy refuting for fun.

You're fucked on that account, gaming-related surveys are notoriously and transparently unreliable. A lot of people are doing a lot of agenda-pushing in this medium, be it guns or feminism or unemployment rates so any hard research is buried with tacit consent of the rest of the community. I'd point you to a couple (I'm recalling a Georgia Tech uni paper and a EU one that falls in line with what you're looking for), but I don't have the links.

Premature.

There's your problem. Diversity in entertainment doesn't make money, and isn't pushed to make money. It's pushed to make the idea of a white society unthinkable.
If you're going to insist on writing something on this topic, your sources will likely be written by people hostile to your argument. This means you have to do actual work. Instead of just saying "X, Y, and Z agree with my argument" you have to extract the actual facts and data from X, Y, and Z, then analyze them yourself to discover the things their authors were trying to obfuscate in their own analysis, the flaws in their data-gathering methods, etc.

My advice is not to write this paper for whatever shitty game design class you're taking, and instead write on something safer and less directly politicized. If you really want to write something on this topic, do it on your own time and publish it on the internet somewhere not tied to your real name.

Eh, it was worth a try. In either case, thanks for the input.

It's for college English class, but i'm already looking into alternate ideas with more sources.

Every single AAA game this year.

If you're in an academic setting, you're fucked no matter what you do because you're likely dealing with the political/academic half of the shitty dev/left establishment relationship.
Also, nobody can really be bothered to actually research that shit because it's so recent.
You might have better luck digging into older examples of DIVERSITY such as the BK Kid's Club, but that's about it.

Read Kaczynski's "The System's Neatest Trick" for a general outline.

Will do, thanks for the suggestion

Yeah, OP you're not going to find anything. The only reason why there's a push for diversity is for national destabilization. It's happened in Communist infiltrated countries, it's currently happening over in Europe, and they're working to make it happen here.

You're delusional. You need to feel as if there are some boogyman enemies for you to "fight" against by simply living your average, boring, white middle-class lifestyle, so you can "win" by sitting on your couch drinking beer and getting fat.

Hi Holla Forums, I see someone let you out of your containment board.

Look at comics. Sales are in the toilet, "diversifying" established characters is clearly one of the major reasons sales are in the toilet, but that's not stopping Marvel.
Profit maximization as motive is an approximation used by economists for modeling purposes. It's a good approximation in many cases. However, it has never, in all the history of the world, been anyone's actual motive. Other considerations always enter into it.

I wonder who is behind this post.

Be creative, research things like say, Vox Day's althero project and records on gaming controversies. Research trainwrecks like Mass Effect 4 or Street Fighter V and figure out whether the companies are shilling to push an agenda or shilling to hide failure. The destruction of indie gaming is another interesting field. Just take a look at the Scratch Ware Manifesto and then the video by the YiffYiff at the end of this post. Stop pissing away trips. Stop being a huge faggot, before other faggots come out of the woodwork, stuff you into a schoolgirl uniform with a rooster emblem on the chest and then brutally rape you.

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Are you lost, comrade?

It has never been anyone's exclusive motive, save for a handful of extreme outliers. It's in 99% of everyone's list of motives, because profits are an abstraction of means to survival, and most people don't have enough money to not be thinking about their survival at least in the back of their heads.

Wow it's almost like your report is discredited if you think outside of the safe space they provided for you. Don't do your own upsetting research, just do what they tell you goy

Not a single question mark in your op and I scanned it for 5 seconds. "ask" on reddit you massive faggot

HOW DARE YOU WASTE THOSE TRIPS YOU DOUBLE NIGGER!

You can argue the facts that adding in all the minorities and gays into videogames hasn't made an effect in the real world, and if they're so paranoid about trump and the white male army, it has done the opposite effect.
Also note how lack of information from minority communities and groups go into making these characters. And there is lack of feedback from minority communities when characters are implemented in.

My question is have you even tried?

The enemy is usually your best source for how fucking stupid they are. If you can't find sources taking your position that back up your claim, are you really sure you can't find sources that take the opposite position that inadvertently back up your claim?

Not going to do your research for you, but learning to read between the lines is probably the best tool you have in the fight against Social Justice idiocy in academia.

"Maximize" implies exclusive. You can only maximize one thing.

slavoj zizek is the best place to start, he's one of the first persons to study this idea, even though the fact that he's a commie

Kaczynski was right about the division of labour, I'll give him that much.

Capitalist systems are the only systems worth proposing and debating. People are reductionist in saying 'capitalism is capitalism', when capitalism has multiple forms, many of them successful.

For instance, I could be a proponent of Keynesian style economics, which is a capitalist system which uses taxes to maintain a strong social 'safety net', where the competition is for comfort, status and the desire to create. This system is best in stable, strong economies, because people are more likely to take chances on the slim chance of success, thus stimulating innovation. The risk/reward paradigm in such an economy is such that competition for 'survival' is actually a detriment to innovation, because people will play it safe and just be a wage slave.

Alternatively, someone could suggest a more Objectivist free market oriented capitalism, where tax, social programs and government interference are at a minimum. This system is successful when there is a vast frontier with massive opportunity and wealth just waiting to be claimed by those with the ambition and courage to do so. In that situation, the risk/reward paradigm is such that competition for survival is valid, because there are great riches and adventure right outside your door, and even those who play it safe have the opportunity to strike it rich due to the vacuum left by the adventurers and the opportunities they will create. Example of this are most of the Age of Sail and especially America's westward expansion in the 19th century.

Know what these two systems have in common? They are both capitalist systems and both are proven to WORK when applied to the correct context. Communist and socialist economic systems have never had even one hundredth the success of multiple, proven capitalist systems.

The issue we face right now is that we have the wrong type of capitalism. Not that Capitalism itself is wrong. The state of gaming currently is the perfect example of the wrongness of our current system, where ignorant, corporate brainwashed consumers devour mediocre products at inflated prices. That isn't how capitalism is supposed to be.

point out that out of touch executives may think that san francisco hipsters are the new popular people, that is, the "movers and shakers" and that they aren't actually popular

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No.

Go look into everything concerning the ESA, which is a government lobby for vidya.
Go do some research on Mike Gallagher and just do your best from there.

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You can even use The Fine Young Capitalists sabotage as a way to show how other studios didn't even care for actual push of "diverse" talents and only about their own profit in the end.

To be fair, companies DO think diversity can get them profit in some cases, not all of course.

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Having studied social sciences myself before going into STEM, you're going to have to think outside the box to find studies that help you. And you may have to change your topic to "forced diversity has no conclusive scientific support" or something instead of it being driven by pandering profiteers. That way, you can use the existing studies supporting forced diversity against it, because they are extremely flawed and pushing agendas just like the ones linking autism to vaccines. Remember, SocJus is its own worst enemy: postmodernism doesn't let objective science stop these retards from experiencing their own versions of reality. It makes every piece of data and word on the page have questionable validity, because they define things by how they experience them, not how they are.

Oh and ignore the retarded conspiracy theorists, Holla Forums likes to think they own Holla Forums, but cutting bullshit politics out of videogames cuts both ways and those faggots can fuck off back to their containment boards.

Oh yes, I'm sure (((they))) are responsible for everything. Now head back to your sandbox and talk about how the good guys lost WW2 :)

So paragraphs are leddit spacing now? Honestly "reddit spacing" was always a retarded meme because chanfags did it all the time, but you aren't even accurately calling it out now. Do you need some foolproof suicide methods so you don't fuck that up to?

This may sound very stupid but, has anyone tried to disguise themselves as an SJW to interview some of those people asking for representation AND see how many games/comics/movies they consume when they have said "diversity" ?

If you can't find anything that would be considered a "credible" source to support your argument, that doesn't mean you don't necessarily have an argument. For example, when writing a history paper, a lack of historiography from one direction (primary sources from non-authoritative people for example) is a subject in of itself and is worthy of research.

But that depends on what the people above you think. They might believe that the lack of research/proof on the subject just means that it either isn't ground worth breaking, or that gap exists because there actually is nothing there, which usually isn't the case.

Well memed user. Now go back to your homework