Just to get this out of the way, I hate anime. I really HATE anime. But the whole 'historical accuracy' argument is just stupid, or at least it is with this game. There were women in WW1, the Russians had the Battalion of Death, a specific all-female regiment, and some women did pretend to be men, enlist and sometimes even get to the front, so complaining about the presence of women is ridiculous when this game has weapons (looking at you, Helligrel) that never came into service being used on mass.
Sexualization isn't good, but don't use the historical accuracy argument. It doesn't make sense.

What about women... with ROBOT ARMS!!!

What about women... with ROBOT ARMS!!!
The Germans manufactured them to combat the Martian invasion of 1919 in the Weimar Years. They quad wielded MG 08s (two in each hand).

Valid point,but still colonial and colored troops played a way more vital role in ww1 than women.
Still,EA never claimed that they created a "to the point historically accurate" ww1 simulator,they created a ww1 based multiplayer shooter,and frankly speaking despite the many inaccuracies they did a great job.

Valid point,but still colonial and colored troops played a way more vital role in ww1 than women.
Still,EA never claimed that they created a "to the point historically accurate" ww1 simulator,they created a ww1 based multiplayer shooter,and frankly speaking despite the many inaccuracies they did a great job.
Yeah, pretty much. BF1 had an historically accurate gametype back then too. Where people were only allowed to use Standard Issue Rifles as their main, and bullet damage was 2x. But obviously this type of gamemode is dead these days because people find gameplay is more important than realism.
My only criticism of the game is I always found the DLC to be a bit P2W back in the day. As in gun balancing tended to favour DLC every time a new one came out, and if you didn't have the DLC/microtransactions you were at a disadvantage. But at least on the PC here, the game with all it's DLC only costs like 2$ any time there is a steam sale. So the DLC being P2W eventually stopped being an issue here.