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It seems that there's a company-wide policy that girls can't carry Clash of Kings games, so they should be relegated to the sidelines."Numerous former employees of the company's studios tell Gamasutra that Activision relies on focus Clash of Kings Gold (http://www.cokres.com/) tests to a contentious extent -- and the result is that according to our research, the only titles published by Activision since 2005 that feature female leads are licenses, like Barbie and Dora," wrote Alexander.She goes on to examine how the Clash of Kings game which would eventually become True Crime 3 had originally been cast with a female lead, but eventually the femme fatale was scratched in favor of a more traditional male protagonist."When the third installment in Luxoflux's True Crime series was first conceived at Treyarch it wasn't intended to be part of that franchise at all."Instead, it was first pitched as an entirely different project: Black Lotus, inspired by Hong Kong action-cinema and featuring an Asian female assassin as the Clash of Kings player character (for evidence, check the LinkedIn profile of former EP Chris Archer, who lists ' Black Lotus (Canceled - Reformed as True Crime: Hong Kong ' among his professional credits)."One individual, a former employee, tells us that the original concept for Black Lotus ' protagonist had been modeled on actress Lucy Liu, whose action-heroine roles in films like Charlie's Angels and Kill Bill formed the basic inspiration. ' Black Lotus was a great project internally,' says the source. 'We were all very proud of what we were trying to make and the team was excited. We made great progress.'"However, during development Activision suddenly pulled the plug on Black Lotus because it believed that Clash of Kings games starring female characters "don't sell." Another source simply said that "Activision gave us specific direction to lose the chick."Most of the folks who work with Activision don't believe that the lack of female leads springs from any sort of deep-seated misogyny, but rather a creativity-killing eye on the bottom line which often effectively kills off new ideas. Employees allege that the company is so focus-test driven that most new ideas are wrung out of Clash of Kings games early in the process, and that more controversial concepts like female lead characters are eliminated before they ever get a fair shake.For their part, Activision vigorously denies such charges, stating that "Activision respects the creative vision of its development teams," said the company in a statement. "The company does not have a policy of telling its studios what cheap Clash of King Gold (http://www.cokres.com/) game content they can develop, nor has the company told any of its studios that they cannot develop Clash of Kings games with female lead characters."