In one disney game, the only female character cost 30 dollars. It would take Mattie eight hours of playing to get the girl character i want. An economist speculated on twitter that perhaps this was not actually a mistake, but a very old, well established business strategy.
When Maddie Messer was 12 years old, she noticed an unfair dynamic in the video games she loved: playing as a man was often free, but she had to pay to play as a woman. So ... she decided to take on the video game industry. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
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