Since DF, our characters are always referred to with gender neutral pronouns, which is new. In all the past expansions our characters were referred by the gender we chose, aka being called lad/lass, mr./miss sir/lady. Sometimes there were even voiced lines, like the ones in Ardenweald where an NPC could call you hunter/huntress.
Now I wouldn’t care if this was an option, but it’s not. And I do care because this is an RPG. If a game like Starfield can have every single line voiced and you’re able to choose from three options, then WoW can do it for it’s non voiced text. Hell, even Call of Duty had a campaign where you could choose between he, she or they.
And we KNOW Blizz had a solution for this, at least the people that follow Beta news do. Because during the Beta for DF there was a datamined option where you could choose a pronoun for your character, which I’m sure would affect the quest text which means the commands in the code are probably there already. So where is it? Are they afraid of putting it in?
The only people that would complain are ones that aren’t aware of how it’s already been changed which means they ain’t even reading the quest text to begin with. Basically this would be a good option to put in because right now we don’t have options.
This would also work well with titles, although they could’ve already done that before. For example the title “High Priest”. I’m not using that title on my priest simply because it doesn’t say “High Priestess” instead, even though every female NPC priest in the game is called High Priestess or Priestess of Elune etc.
This might seem unimportant, but I’m reminding you again that this an RPG game, and it’s good if people can connect to their character, especially for those that do like reading quest text, and not just once, but multiple times across all their different characters.
PS: I wasn’t sure which word is the correct one for this, “identity” or “agency” and that’s why I put both in the title.
