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Problem with Kao - HEAVY SPOILERS

HarmlessHarmless
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Posts: 23
Member
edited October 2018 in General Chat
Kao, who is suposssed to be the player (more exactly, the explorer class player character), is constantly treated as a "him", even when you can be playing as a female.

It's a pet peeve of mine to be treated as a guy in an MMO when I'm not, and sadly in Maple it happens.. A LOT.

it would make me greatly happy if the dialogue for this and other questlines were to be revised and corrected with at least "them" if the devs are too lazy to distinguish between male and female chars. 2018 people, come on.
  1. Maple ain't woke enough9 votes
    1. Yeah but.. you know, Korea. Nothing gms can do
       22% (2 votes)
    2. Yes, and they are too lazy to fix
       22% (2 votes)
    3. Wha? B-but there are NO girls on the internet! Right?
       56% (5 votes)

Comments

  • FuhreakFuhreak
    Reactions: 7,670
    Posts: 1,624
    Member, Private Tester
    edited October 2018
    The problem is probably that in the korean version they use a unisex honorific or title, which commonly get mistranslated as one or the other.
    A classic example of this is the Metroid (NES) manual, where they translate Samus as "He" rather than "They".

    This seems more like a suggestion, but I'd support a rewrite for all "he/him/his" to be rewritten to "them/they/their", it makes more sense and it gives a greater sense of mystery to the identity of Kao.
    YinYangXHarmlessQaevi