Just make POE 2 not gender locked, simple.

I'm not against not gender locking.
But I don't think it will be all that great in terms of drawing new players/ boosting mtx sales.

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SkalicFin wrote:

PoE characters have their backstory and how they fit into the lore itself. Having non gender locked characters and make them fit to the lore is just extra cost with no real impact to the gameplay.

if we're going there, i would actually have prefered poe2 to have only 3 classes and we branch out into different classes/ascendencies from there rather than 6.

The better solution would be to make everyone AI robot entities.

Save so much on development cost.
Then Everyone could look the same.
There would be no sex, gender and race issues.

Please literally make everyone a Bot.

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SinANger wrote:

That is what a big part of the communitiy is asking. It will increase the amount of cosmetics buyers, no downside. You said urselves that the engine now allows you to make kind of stuff much easier.

Where do you get the data that a big part of the community is asking for this?

You make this post as though there’s an issue to fix or something people actual want. Yikes…

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

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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. The scope and ambition of PoE2 is already so large that it's caused multiple delays, and nobody very few people want to see things delayed further to add alternate character models, character animations, armour models, and voice lines for 12 character classes.

GGG could add it later as an optional mtx kinda thing. They did say that the new character rigging would allow for it, so it's not impossible to do, it's just currently out of scope. That might actually make for a good straw poll topic:

Q1. Would you be willing to pay extra for an mtx that adds additional character models to the game?

Q2. If so, how much would you be willing to pay for each additional model? $5? $10? $20? $40?

Q3. Which character class would you most want to see get additional alternate-gender model first?

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

I think one androgynous exile would be perfect for everyone.

I'd rather they prioritize gameplay related features with the limited dev time.

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superbomb1967 wrote:

I think one androgynous exile would be perfect for everyone.

Androgynous exile wouldn't appeal to everyone. If they could waste tons of money on customization of character sex and gender, they could do it for everyone. They could introduce dynamic sex and gender selection where you can choose sex and gender of npc.

Think of the possibilities. POE 2 could be a dating sim.