Lack of Gender Diversity and Sexist Roles

Come on GG, you can do better!

Why are all the females casters/ranged and all the males melee? GG, have you even realized how sexist that is?

I am a female gamer. I've been with POE from the start and this was an issue the first time around. Seriously, it's 2024. Men can cast and pew pew and women can mole whack and shield bash with the best of them.

If you can/will not give us the gender options when picking a class, then PLEASE, please give us a healthy mix of all the classes with both genders. EX: Sorc, female, warlock, male, witch female, necro male, monk male, ninja female... etc


Fix this please. I'm dying out here and yes I greatly dislike playing the males. The deep male voices throw me for a loop. It's no longer my character, its some guy that I don't want to listen to nor care about. I'm hopping all over the place not playing very far because I am unhappy with these choices. BTW, hubby plays a male blaster caster... good luck introducing him to this game.. sigh

Dreaming of a female monk....


Mossmere

P.S. Love the game so far otherwise.

The reason they don’t do is that way is because with the set character models it makes mtx easier to make. It was a big issue back in Poe 1 essentially having to make all mtx 3 times per character imagine if it was six.

So the excuse for sexism to still exist in a BRAND NEW GAME is this is easier? We are too lazy to look at our casting of roles based off gender? WOW.

That’s what you’re making it out to be but is not the case. The game is on the same engine that Poe 1 was designed on.

Oh I gotcha. That however, does not excuse the obvious sexism in what class is what gender. There should be at least 1 female melee class and 1 male ranged and caster class. PERIOD. This is ridiculous.

"I'm dying out here and yes I greatly dislike playing the males. The deep male voices throw me for a loop. It's no longer my character, its some guy that I don't want to listen to nor care about."

Why are you so hateful towards men? I'm a guy, playing a female witch, and still pew-pewing... It's a wild stretch to call this sexism.

Have you even looked at the full roster there is plenty of diversity. While you don’t have to like that you can’t pick the gender of the class you want to play doesn’t promote what you’re saying. Sorry the game doesn’t have the character customization you want. Believe me we have all asked about it for years and that’s when they went into the mtx deep dive. Ggg don’t have a massive staff like some of these other failed arpg that have had up to 9k people work on it. They care more about their community why do you think they took so many interviews with players prior to launch to answer questions.

To be honest you play in the character to enjoy their story, each character has their own story fully fleshed out if you listen to their dialogue. it's no different than playing Tomb Raider for Laura Croft and Indiana Jones for well Indiana Jones

Huntress, a female melee character isn't out yet. Archer, a male bow class isn't out yet.

who cares, I'm a male and playing a female witch and I never even thought about it until I saw this post.