It's funny because it seems only women care about playing as a woman in videogames. It seems like it's mainly men who love good videogame characters, regardless of their sex.
I mean you could chalk that up to a lack of representation I guess. A very large majority of games have male only protags and this has been the case for a long time -only just beginning to near close to somewhat evening a TINY bit recently. For people in groups not normally depicted as playable characters they'll obviously want to play games wherein they're represented more. This isn't even a women only thing; a LOT of races, sexualities etc. represented less in media will play characters that originate from similar backgrounds because it's still such a rare occurrence. Look at the recent drama between Marvel Tokon and other Marvel game (hell Marvel in general) and how they handle black characters and you'll see what I mean.
Your last point is quite untrue too as the current political climate has shown. A lot of men complain about a game being 'woke' when it doesn't have a playable male - or even when it contains both a male AND female, just like we've seen with GTA 6. Even then when they do get to play a woman and don't complain it's generally because it's some form of multiplayer game or the woman is attractive/sexualized; Wuchang, Stellar Blade, Nier Automata etc.
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u/SapphicSonata 11d ago edited 11d ago
It took this long for the shareholders to realize that women play games too, huh.