The ''Waifuification'' of the Witcher 3
As a result of massive amounts of money spent on marketing, the Witcher 3 attracted the mainstream ''gamer'' crowd to the Witcher 3, these people
include those who like games such as Call of Duty, League of Legends, etc. .
But also other RPG games, such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
Those two series specifically is well known to have focused alot on ''romance options'', which was rather unique as a point of focus for action-RPG games otherwise focusing on other things, such as telling a consistent and good story.
Having attracted this crowd, the Witcher 3 gained alot of new players who sought something akin to that in the Witcher 3, and what they found was just a choice between two characters, Triss Merigold and Yennefer of Vengerberg. Judging by the amount of pages in threads, it's obvious that the people who used to obsess over characters such as Tali from Mass Effect or Leliana & Morrigan from Dragon Age, have now come over to the Witcher 3 and started to obsess over Triss Merigold, demanding everything from more cutscenes and dialogue, to replacing Yennefer throughout most of the game with Triss.
Anyone familiar with the Witcher universe understands the reason why Yennefer has such a big role in the game, first of all because she's a main character (as opposed to Triss who has until the creation of the games been at most a secondary character), but also because she was absent from the first two games, so we can guess CDR wanted to aim the spotlight at her a bit.
But does that earn CDR any more money? No it doesn't. A majority of the Witcher 3's players are people who probably don't even know the games are sequels to a series of books, and who probably haven't played the first two games, and obsessing over the character Triss, CDR figures catering to their demands is what will earn them the most money, hence why they have now announced that they will be looking into removing and adding content to make Triss more prominent in the Witcher 3 than the main character Yennefer.
http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/329274/Witcher+3+expansions+"almost+size+of+Witcher+2"/
Instead of addressing the most glaring issues of the game, such as the almost complete lack of dialogue between Yennefer and Ciri, polish -> english translation errors in the dialogue, overall underwhelming character interaction throughout the entirety of ''act 3'', they're instead going to look into removing and adding content from the game to make Triss more prominent than Yennefer.
This is the Waifuification of the Witcher 3. Congratulations, this is what inevitably happens when a company has tasted enough money and decides to sink its game to squeeze a bit more money out of it.
Edit:
To save everybody some time, I'd like to suggest that unless you've read the books and played all three games, then don't bother replying, as you will not be aware of extremely important stuff in order to fully understand the issue at hand.
As a result of massive amounts of money spent on marketing, the Witcher 3 attracted the mainstream ''gamer'' crowd to the Witcher 3, these people
include those who like games such as Call of Duty, League of Legends, etc. .
But also other RPG games, such as Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
Those two series specifically is well known to have focused alot on ''romance options'', which was rather unique as a point of focus for action-RPG games otherwise focusing on other things, such as telling a consistent and good story.
Having attracted this crowd, the Witcher 3 gained alot of new players who sought something akin to that in the Witcher 3, and what they found was just a choice between two characters, Triss Merigold and Yennefer of Vengerberg. Judging by the amount of pages in threads, it's obvious that the people who used to obsess over characters such as Tali from Mass Effect or Leliana & Morrigan from Dragon Age, have now come over to the Witcher 3 and started to obsess over Triss Merigold, demanding everything from more cutscenes and dialogue, to replacing Yennefer throughout most of the game with Triss.
Anyone familiar with the Witcher universe understands the reason why Yennefer has such a big role in the game, first of all because she's a main character (as opposed to Triss who has until the creation of the games been at most a secondary character), but also because she was absent from the first two games, so we can guess CDR wanted to aim the spotlight at her a bit.
But does that earn CDR any more money? No it doesn't. A majority of the Witcher 3's players are people who probably don't even know the games are sequels to a series of books, and who probably haven't played the first two games, and obsessing over the character Triss, CDR figures catering to their demands is what will earn them the most money, hence why they have now announced that they will be looking into removing and adding content to make Triss more prominent in the Witcher 3 than the main character Yennefer.
http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/329274/Witcher+3+expansions+"almost+size+of+Witcher+2"/
Instead of addressing the most glaring issues of the game, such as the almost complete lack of dialogue between Yennefer and Ciri, polish -> english translation errors in the dialogue, overall underwhelming character interaction throughout the entirety of ''act 3'', they're instead going to look into removing and adding content from the game to make Triss more prominent than Yennefer.
This is the Waifuification of the Witcher 3. Congratulations, this is what inevitably happens when a company has tasted enough money and decides to sink its game to squeeze a bit more money out of it.
Edit:
To save everybody some time, I'd like to suggest that unless you've read the books and played all three games, then don't bother replying, as you will not be aware of extremely important stuff in order to fully understand the issue at hand.
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