Just make POE 2 not gender locked, simple.

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SinANger#4868 wrote:

That is what a big part of the communitiy is asking.

Suuuure.

Source: trust me bro.

lol this topic still aint dead i see.

my hot take, instead of having gender swapping, allow us to use any of the character models for any class that we choose.

for example we play as a witch but we choose monk as our ingame model.

what cost am i willing to forego?

homogenization.

make all conversation refer to the exile as "the exile".

since we already are getting cutscenes, homogenization would be the best way moving forward to begin with.

For me everything is fine and in place, for me such changes are unnecessary, each character has its own lore and history, connection with NPCs along the way, and a unique image, it's like making Lara Croft a guy, why...

Before someone will hate me - it's my opinion and i have right for this

I absolutely don’t care about gender of my avatar, I personally prefer they spend ressources and time on things that matter.
You don’t know what % of players care about that.

I love how you present this post like its a problem that needs solving and people other than liberals want this. Stop, ok?

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Selenix302#1864 wrote:

it's like making Lara Croft a guy, why...

It's called Path of Exile, not Tomb Raider - Adventures of Lara Croft. In a Tomb Raider game, I'm fine with Lara Croft. In a generic RPG, with a cash shop, classes, skins, I'm not fine with preset characters. It's really that easy.

Don't begin to tell me how the characters are established and all bcs I finished up to act 3 and the story isn't particularly centered around my character either.

The gender lock is just lazy - nothing else about it.

Yeah, we'll just double the character workload across the board. Real simple.

+1 please its 2025! :)

adding a feature that will not improve gameplay or lore is completely unnecessary

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NicknamesOfGod#1810 wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

The tail attempting to wag the dog. ='[.]'=

To an extent, for sure. It's not that idea is terrible, though, it's just that GGG would have to divert resources away from the game's development that they clearly can't afford right now.

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Q1. Would you be willing to pay extra
Q2. If so, how much
Q3. Which character class

It might be interesting to have some actual data on that. What can I say? I'm a data-driven kinda guy.

A) AFAIK, in most places people expect us to refer to them by their preferred pronouns, which may or may not match their biology and/or appearance.

B)Many people in this thread are assuming the gender identity of certain character classes based off their appearance. If biology isn't destiny, pixels aren't either.

C) Where I am leading with that is not any disrespect, but that the game has limited role playing features. (more on this next) The character name may be more important than how they look. We can't give our characters beards, change hair color, make them thinner or more muscular. If GGG is going to add any kind of character customization, don't make it some extremely limited set, but allow something many players will want.

In answer to questions 1,2, 3
Yes, make them permanent supporter packs, with a lot more customization options for each class.

A basic $30 pack might get you the purported male/female pixelizatin models some people want.

The next supporter pack up at $60 would allow hair styles, color, skin tone, various tattoos or body mods etc (hook hand or peg leg for those who want to RP as a pirate for instance).

The Next customization pack could be $100, and have a real palette of customization choices (facial shape and structures, size, subtle variations in
most things).

The top customization pack would be $250 and include customizing pets. How many people would pay to have an exact type, color, pattern of dog/cat for instance? Whether to include/exclude previous pack exclusive pet variations?
I'm not sure on that one.

The packs could be set up so that at any time in the future, you could pay the difference and upgrade to the next. The packs could include some points and maybe a few MTX.

I don't think any of this should remotely be on GGG's to do list, at least not until PoE 2 is complete and all the existing Poe1 MTX are added in.

Personally, I would spend 100-250 for a very nice set of options as I described. GGG should also plan on adding them to PoE 1.

Anyhow, that's my two cents.