User blog comment:JESSIEJJD13/The New PB (OPINION)/@comment-35200970-20190306082340/@comment-26069469-20190306083334

THIS.

Totally agree with every word you said. There is no excuse for books being gender-locked. As you said, they aren't poor. They have money, they have the money to keep throwing out 27 new books a month, they have the money to be adding new improvements to their books (as seen in Elementalists with the moving graphics and such), they have the money to continue expanding (more books, more chapters), and not shrinking as they may if they were tight on resources.

Another point you were spot-on with, the replies. Last I checked, the top liked tweet in response to the announcement of PTR was wanting gender options; the second was another asking for it. And the replies asking for gender options were also highly liked. The same with RODABBR and  Open Heart. And with the former, the replies were liked extremely high asking for gender options (several tweets with 50-200 likes). And when it was announced it was female-only, there was large outrage, and several fans stated they would not play - same happened with ACOR. Yet, they continue to do gender-locked books (and they're not a rarity).

Also totally agree on the last statement. The books are meant for (and the romance books they keep throwing up) a 13 year-old-girl. And you can tell by the dialouge. Even gender-customizable books, you can tell the dialouge is meant for that demographic. They talk about being representative, but then they never fully and completely work to represent their audience that they keep ignoring (see any gender locked book replies)