They chose to make some dudes feel uncomfortable in a game that had previous catered exclusively to them (in this respect). They chose to make it so that the random luck of the draw was at play. The only difference is that whether you feel like this is now decided by your SteamID instead of your real life gender." " Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings. That's the real venom in their statement. They didn't make any more people feel mismatched than before.
They didn't bring everyone's experiences down. Why aim to bring everyone's experience down when you could very easily make a change that allows people of all sorts to feel like their character is what they want? I suspect you'd say, as you said in this last paragraph I've quoted, that it's so people get a taste of other people's less than ideal experience, but I question the value of that when it would be within the developer's power to make it so that undesirable scenario (having to play a man when you are a woman etc) simply doesn't occur in the first Because they didn't make it worse. I suppose I just fundamentally disagree that the solution to the problem of people feeling unhappy with characters in video-games not matching their own experience is to make a scenario in which even more people feel mismatched. If that's an issue for you and you're not used to this being something games force upon you: congratulations dude, welcome to how the rest of us sometimes feel. It's about it being randomly decided and locked for the lifetime of your time with the game. So it's not about letting people choose their avatar's gender. Maybe you need to learn the attach to an avatar who isn't the same gender as you because that's sure what the rest of us have been doing. If you're a dude and you expect a dude avatar in your game then maybe you shouldn't. But the reality is the issue was always there. It drips sarcasm that the player base will suddenly find this an issue the moment it's not dudes playing dude avatars. The dev's statement is heavily tongue in cheek about this. Just like there isn't from most games that do this. But there wasn't a massive outcry from the user base. The rest of us have always been the ones who don't see our avatars reflecting ourselves. Every dude who has made a character has gotten a dude avatar. Guess what, this is "not an issue" when it's dudes and their mainly male avatars in games that don't give gender selection. Under the backdrop of male entitlement and harassment/abuse online that gaming is currently working with, I can only see this as a laudable move. So yeah, I'm for it as a social experience/twist on the genre but I think the dev effectively saying it's OK that people feel bad because people felt bad before is a weak argument for them to make. So long as players couldn't alter their character after the initial decision I think that'd be maintained. They state in the article that it as far as game-play goes is so that your avatar has a history and recognisability to it. That said at least from the article that doesn't sound like the stated purpose of this change. I can't wait for clans of (probably mostly white) people with black avatars to form against the bulwark of Russian online racism. Surely if they authentically cared about whether or not people were comfortable they'd make it selectable? I mean if you have a scenario where half the people feel bad why not go with the solution that makes everyone feel good instead of one where potentially everyone feels I agree that as a social experiment it'll be a hoot. I understand the sentiment but it seems odd considering that although they seem empathetic to people not wanting to play a sex other than their own instead of making it so no players feel that "distress" they seem to have made it so even more people will feel that distress. The only difference is that whether you feel like this is now decided by your SteamID instead of your real life gender_. _Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings. We understand this causes you distress and makes you not want to play the game anymore. We understand that you may now be a gender that you don’t identify with in real-life. We understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people.
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The dev update seemed to explain precisely how this change was not making things better or worse, just changing (as the game expanded the character options which have always seemed to be added to give the game diversity not give the player customisation options for their avatar) who was living with the consequences of playing as an avatar that did not reflect their real-life gender:
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