3. As Raze said, quote follows below, theres people actually not backing or even withdrawing pledges for the sake of bikini armor. I don't see pro bikini people react like that.
I don't know of anyone who withdrew their pledge because of the cover art (after all, they had seen it before backing). The issue was people having the original artwork as the initial representation of the game, and then wondering if they needed to look into it any further if that was either the maturity level of the game or indicative of how woman would be portrayed.
For example, one person made a comment in the forum about liking the new design shortly after it was changed, and got some rather negative responses from the pro-bikini side. It actually made them second guess backing the game and wonder about the portrayal of women in the previous Divinity games. They emailed support to ask if the forum was usually so hostile and which design was more representative of the game (which got forwarded to me because support wasn't following the forum discussion closely). I responded to their concerns, and they were actually fine with the female warrior in DD starting off in pretty much a metal bikini since the male warrior started with gladiator style attire. Their main issue with the original artwork was the difference in designs, rather than the bikini armour itself.
The armour designs in the game were always realistic. That was part of the reason the cover art was changed. I'm sure modders will design some bikini armour, though (not that that would make a huge difference when the character is an inch high on screen).
