Will PoE2 have male/female options for each class?

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DeLJaDe wrote:

I will also mention that the characterisation extends to the world itself, as the gender of each character reflects the values and traditions of societies in Wreaclast. It makes sense that Templars are a patriarchical structure or that it's mainly male combatants in the grand arena and with Witch we can also see that it's common for women in Oriath to delve into the occult as we later confirm with Piety and Catarina. Choice in character gender leads to less immersive world building.

To build off this statement some;

It also allows the world to interact with those characters in more meaningful ways. Dominus is extremely and obviously sexist, as demonstrated by his comments to the scion and witch make clear, the maitrarcy of the Maraketh is obvious as well, treating men differently (often as lesser), and it colors several conversations with them in interesting ways. These are all faults in the world written with intent, that lose a lot of their impact when the writer of this dialog can't be assured of the players class and gender at the same time, and becomes extremely complex and hard to pull off the more choices players are able to make.

I'm not of the opinion that it couldn't be done, but doing so is far more time intensive that I think the average player would consider, and I'd MUCH rather that time and energy go into making the game mechanically good, as well as narratively good. I'd much rather have one good story than six okay stories that have been overly streched and cut up to accomidate greater player freedom of choice in this particular regard.