Male/Female Class Choices Please...

[Xyyth]

If this game is going to succeed in the United States, we need to have a talk:

How come only 3 class choices are male and all the rest are female? Isn't that a bit ridiculous for those that might want to play their own gender in the game? Also, what's with all the highest tiered classes being all female so far? Inquiring minds want to know.

Also, please do not bring any pay to win shops here. No weapons and no armor and no exp boosters. Cosmetic only if you are going to do this.

[Luffy]

The head developer of the game had said that the amount of time and resources required to develop a gender counterpart of an already existing class is more or less the same as developing a brand new character from skretch.

Considering how you'd have to make new equipments ( the ones with physical appearances such as hats and weapons), skill motions, emote motions etc., its understandable from a developer point of view why they might prefer creating a new character into a gender counterpart instead, it may feel as if the updates don't offer fresh new contents for players to enjoy.

thus the developers decided to make the gender counterparts more interesting by making slight adjustements to them, gunslinger being a perfect example of this. This allows players to feel as if they're playing a whole "new" character instead of merely male or female "versions" of a character. This is why it's taking them so long to create gender counterparts. The head developer did state that they will release more gender counterparts. ( Thanks to @Duke for the explanation )

[Phenom]

It's a pretty common thing in Korean or asian games in general, but they are in the process of making alternate gender classes of existing ones. It's not gonna be a 1:1 copy of the original, but on a fundamental level they will be the same, like Gunslinger and Deadeye for instance. Striker was shown for the Korean servers not too long ago as a male equivalent to the Martial Artist class.

[Xyyth]

It sounds like the developers need to go back to programming school and learn how to plan out gender choices in an MMO like most of the other ones have.

[Xyyth]

It's good they are considering it though for the US version. How far are they going to let us play in this alpha before wipe?

[Phenom]

İlk olarak Xyyth tarafından gönderildi:

It sounds like the developers need to go back to programming school and learn how to plan out gender choices in an MMO like most of the other ones have.

What about this, they made a conscious decision for their game to design it this way? You may not like it, but that's just how it is.

[Martimus Prime]

I agree, and it's why i won't be playing this game. I don't want to hear any excuses about "oh this will take as long as making a class" Durr durr. No it won't. They took the time to make aaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllll those alternate appearances for each model but they can't throw together a male mage or female berserker?

Sorry, no thanks

I'm sick of the Korean/Chinese games locking men into physical roles and women into magic roles like this is still ancient times.

[Tanko]

I prefer female characters. I make them my wife so try my hardest to obtain everything they desire so she can strive in her adventures. I hate it when they get mad at me though

[Xyyth]

That's fine. I have friends that are that way too, but some people want to make characters that look like themselves or are the same gender. It's not that unheard of.

[Kuthuwu]

Gender does not matter unless you are playing a Life Sim. Or is your intention of this game to use it as tender and find your next love connection?

[February]

İlk olarak Xyyth tarafından gönderildi:

It sounds like the developers need to go back to programming school and learn how to plan out gender choices in an MMO like most of the other ones have.

Or someone could just accept the fact that the whole world isn't pandered to them and just enjoy the classes as they are, gender-locked.

[Loser]

I'm confused as to why gender is so important to everyone in online games in the last year or two. Last Epoch, D2R and others forums are riddled with these pointless posts.

[DeiGratia]

İlk olarak Loser tarafından gönderildi:

I'm confused as to why gender is so important to everyone in online games in the last year or two. Last Epoch, D2R and others forums are riddled with these pointless posts.

Your name fits

Not pointless to many. D2R? Really... as far as Last Epoch it was a budget decision nothing more. It's also why the used the time mechanic in story mode. They have an extremely limited budget and people working on the game but they wanted to have story arcs fit with the characters. Even fps games have customization options, loot, progression systems and more. Welcome to modern day video games

[Xyyth]

İlk olarak Suslik tarafından gönderildi:

Gender does not matter unless you are playing a Life Sim. Or is your intention of this game to use it as tender and find your next love connection?

Why do you waste energy refuting both genders per class like most other games offer? Is it your intention to be an asshat so you feel like you are contributing something?

[Touch Me]

İlk olarak Xyyth tarafından gönderildi:

Why do you waste energy refuting both genders per class like most other game offer? Is it your intention to be an asshat so you feel like you are contributing something?

Listen I am with you in wanting non-gender locked classes, but the devs have already made the decision to go about classes this way and for us in the west to demand such an extreme change will hinder actual development of future content and classes. You have to bear in mind that creating female and male counterparts is taxing since the devs would have to basically build the models up from scratch and that includes the existing cosmetics. So I would say to hell with non-gender locked classes and just release new classes and content. The devs would probably experiment with the non-gender locked idea later, but for now just play the game when it comes out if you really do enjoy it.

[Quintessence]

Korean server is already getting rid of genderlocks effectively, so I don't see why we wouldn't get that.