Character Skins Upcoming?
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But the game literally isn't about making a personal character... the classes all have their own back stories and aren't your character. If you want that, play Skyrim or Oblivion.
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" The classes all have their own backstories, yes. You are also free to ignore their backstories completely and turn your Witch - i.e. a master of occult magic and necromantic summoning who "canonically" delves into secret, forbidden lore in pursuit of eldritch power - into a musclebound hammer-swinging melee bruiser with a flaming skull head, badly animated unicorn wings, golden glowing armor gaudy and tasteless enough to make a WH40k cosplayer blush, and enough particle effects to crash the Swedish stock exchange servers. And the game will not care, or even notice, in the slightest. "These are deep, story-rich characters with dramatic tales to tell" fails on the face of it. They are no such thing, and this pitiful argument has never once in the history of ARPGs held water. " That is, in fact, what many people do. They simply choose not to play the game. Now your pithy, apathetic and derisive comment is obviously intended as an insult, but you are in fact correct - the solution for many people is simply to avoid the game. How's that gonna work on GGG's bottom line? How's it gonna affect their publicity? Games media has already reported on how strange this backwards-ass decision is on GGG's part in the past. Do you think they're gonna cut the team any slack when Jonathan announces you can totally play a female Warrior...one single time, for a hundred and twenty dollars? I could buy a copy and a half of Borderlands 4 for that, or like three copies of Clair Obscur, or over a year of playtime for FFXIV, or I'unno...two weeks of food for my household. This is why at least two of my trans friends have told me they're never playing PoE2 again. Not only does the game go out of its way to disaccommodate them, but then forum chuds go on Chud Rants about how it's our fault. Because it's not important to the chuds, therefore it cannot possibly be of actual importance to anyone else. Get over yourself. If people snarling endlessly like whiny infants about how the endgame doesn't cause loot to explode from their ears and shower them in a dozen divines every time they slay a random fish is perfectly A-OK, people being upset over being told "pay unreasonable amounts of money to help deal with your dysphoria" is also perfectly fine. She/Her
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" it is something called demographics and ROI. If a problem affects 0.1% of the player base.. it is a low priority compared to things that affect 90% or more of the player base.. A Company can only cater to the former is they charge for it, that is how ANY well managed company works. If I want a game mode wihtou spiders to help with my phobia I need to PAY GGG enough for them to be worth doing it. |
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Avowed, Obsidian's latest offering, recently released an Arachnophobia Mode that turns spider enemies into floating spider-colored balls with floating swords. They did not charge people for it. Their fans asked, and Obsidian delivered. Are the floating sword-wielding not-spiderballs worse than spiders? To me, yes - but I'm not arachnophobic, and I can't speak to whether those not-spiderballs solve the problem arachnophobic people have with the spider enemies. If it works? Awesome. I presume Obsidian tested it with arachnophobic people before deploying it, and if they somehow didn't they'll hear about it and do a fix.
A similar, if older, story came from FFXIV; when they initially released the class icon for the Sage, it had three tiny holes in it to represent the class's signature noulith weapons. Players with trypophobia reported that it gave them the squicks, and Creative Business Unit 3 (FFXIV's developers) changed the icon to eliminate the holes as a solve for this extremely small percentage of players. Perhaps, rather than saying "it's simply not worth it", you can consider having higher standards. She/Her
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And I consider them idiots for doing it. Yes even if it benefits me. I am no crybaby. I administer a company and I know how BAD it is for a company when they start doing stuff like that. I would NEVER ask any developer to do that. I woudl bet a lunch that happened because some developer had arachnophobia and he developed it himself to make him feel better at work.
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Man. What a dreary, depressing view to take of game development, or product development in general. "If [Idea] isn't the #1 priority of literally every single person using our product, it is 100% completely and utterly a total waste of time we should never do in a million billion trillion years."
I can't imagine what you think of accessibility options in games. After all, disabled folk make up only a small percentage of players, game companies must be absolute bleeding morons for working on accessibility. Hell, this genre of game as a whole is way smaller than live service slop like Fortnite; what utter breathtaking losers GGG must be to work on PoE and not Legally Distinct Fortnite. Just the worst justification for Tyranny of the Majority bullshit. She/Her
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I find myself puzzled by such issues - the character isn't you, what does it matter what gender it has? I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's like saying you can't watch Mission Impossible unless they release an alternative version that replaces Tom Cruise with a woman.
Why did this start to become a problem? There was no genderswap in Diablo 2, and the game was great regardless. I played a sorceress and I loved teleporting around. I played a Necro and I loved sending my claygolem through doorways to "scout" for arrows. The body parts of the characters didn't really factor in beyond the style and aesthetics. Now I'm not against the option, and doubly so if it helps some people who have an unfortunate mental condition. But people these days come across as so... warped? I really don't mean to be rude, but it certainly feels like you see the fault/responsibility for your issues with other people. As in, you wouldn't want to be cured if it was possible, you'd rather warp the entire world to fit your condition. And you seem to think that's normal. Or rather, it *has been made* normal in certain parts of the internet. |
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" Even if not role-playing as a self-insert theres still a 'vibe check' that players have with character esthetics. For me, the witches narcissistic, power hungry, antisocial persona is perfect for my headcannon. Not joking when i say thats the biggest factor in why 95% of my characters are the witch. But if it was a dude, I'd probably dislike it and find it cringy (met way too many narcissistic edgy men irl). People dont need to imagine themselves as tom cruise, but if tom cruise ended every line with "[...], uwu! Gary-san favors me!" It would worsen the experience. "Beidat honored the pact, though Mancy wouldn't take off Doryani’s prototype."
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" Assuming that the witch had always been a dude, and then they release a new MTX that makes her the edgy witch you love... Would you come to the forum and complain that it costs money? That you have to pay the "edgelord-tax" if you want to play with it? I don't think so. Moreso, in a game that has the witch, would you expect/demand that *all* characters can, for free, be skin/voice swapped to the witch? Because of your condition that you prefer edgy females? I don't think so. |
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" Correct. I would not ever do that. And also correct. Freely swapping all their looks / voice lines would make the characters and their world feel diluted and bland (to me). The witch acts like she's been scorned for her pursuit of power because she was, swapping in the warrior look/voice just wouldn't make sense thematically. "Beidat honored the pact, though Mancy wouldn't take off Doryani’s prototype."
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