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Remove the "gender" attribute from the game
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I don't want to argue over some political bs or morals, don't call me a "fking liberal", but let's be real: this change is purely cosmetic and would be met with open arms by many of the LGBTQ community members. The game has been heteronormative for 13+ years, can we get with the times??
This may be blunt, but that really doesn't concern me. The first order of business for this matter is to completely disregard all of the representation and alphabet-soup kerfuffle from the discussion and get down to the core basics. There is no need for the "it's <currentyear> already" arguments I've seen thrown about in other threads concerning matters revolving around character gender.
To preface, all screenshots are courtesy of this site. Moving on, now...
Underneath whatever you have equipped, be you male or female, is the exact same base sprite:
The first, and really only, difference comes into play with the underclothes the character wears:
The left is male, while the right is female. This is it. This is the only thing, outside of the system flag, that differentiates a character's gender. The gender attribute could easily be removed from all items that possess it, with little, if any, ill effects to be had. At absolute worst you have people who look even worse than the utter tragedy of a character that is @MegaScience
...ok so we agree i guess? why did you have to quote me........?
Because of this line.
Many people couldn't care less (Nexon seems to be included on this) about "getting with the times".
This is a good game design choice in general. There's no need to slap on "Plus it makes this small percentage of people happy!"
If anything, Nexon is less likely to include this change if they think this is the only reason people want it.
The end result is the same. There's no need to lower the chances of it happening because you can't resist slapping politics on top of it.
Additionally, I'd like to remind you all that gender-separated equipment all but disappears once you hit 110; everything from then on becomes unisex.
Because of that line, yes, and also the fact that the "for" column of people seem to think that "it's <currentyear>, get with the times" is the only substantive argument to be made. I personally don't care about who wants to cross-dress their character, nor do I care for the reasons why. If making anvils less of a pain in the ass to find top-and-bottom fodder for, as well as making all equipment fall in line, makes a subset of players happy for other reasons, then hooray for them. But they are, and should, not be the focal point of the argument.
I'm against sjws doing in real life because is ruining things for many but you see that is absolutely not relevant with this suggestion