Male / Female options with classes?

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

This has been suggested multiple times throughout the beta, and Chris once mentioned that it would take around $250,000 in development cost (paying for thousands of man-hours of work) to make new models and animations for each class. The devs have said it's something they might add later, but the cost and time is too much right now.

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Merigold wrote:

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

This has been suggested multiple times throughout the beta, and Chris once mentioned that it would take around $250,000 in development cost (paying for thousands of man-hours of work) to make new models and animations for each class. The devs have said it's something they might add later, but the cost and time is too much right now.

What if, instead of using new models you sever the link between class and character model? You could pick a class, then a character model (for example a templar with the Witch model). They'd simply get the templar startingpoint and stats in the passive skill tree.

No new models/clothes needed as all classes can basically wear anything they have the stats for anyway.. very cheap and shouldn't be too hard to implement either and you'd be making even more people happy :)