Character Skins Upcoming?

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Apostiles_R#4194 wrote:

But the game literally isn't about making a personal character... the classes all have their own back stories and aren't your character. If you want that, play Skyrim or Oblivion.

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Apostiles_R#4194 wrote:

ps if playing a big muscle guy causes physical distress, maybe don't play the game and get help.

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1453R#7804 wrote:

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Apostiles_R#4194 wrote:

But the game literally isn't about making a personal character... the classes all have their own back stories and aren't your character. If you want that, play Skyrim or Oblivion.

The classes all have their own backstories, yes. You are also free to ignore their backstories completely and turn your Witch - i.e. a master of occult magic and necromantic summoning who "canonically" delves into secret, forbidden lore in pursuit of eldritch power - into a musclebound hammer-swinging melee bruiser with a flaming skull head, badly animated unicorn wings, golden glowing armor gaudy and tasteless enough to make a WH40k cosplayer blush, and enough particle effects to crash the Swedish stock exchange servers. And the game will not care, or even notice, in the slightest.

"These are deep, story-rich characters with dramatic tales to tell" fails on the face of it. They are no such thing, and this pitiful argument has never once in the history of ARPGs held water.

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Apostiles_R#4194 wrote:

ps if playing a big muscle guy causes physical distress, maybe don't play the game and get help.

That is, in fact, what many people do. They simply choose not to play the game. Now your pithy, apathetic and derisive comment is obviously intended as an insult, but you are in fact correct - the solution for many people is simply to avoid the game. How's that gonna work on GGG's bottom line? How's it gonna affect their publicity? Games media has already reported on how strange this backwards-ass decision is on GGG's part in the past. Do you think they're gonna cut the team any slack when Jonathan announces you can totally play a female Warrior...one single time, for a hundred and twenty dollars? I could buy a copy and a half of Borderlands 4 for that, or like three copies of Clair Obscur, or over a year of playtime for FFXIV, or I'unno...two weeks of food for my household.

This is why at least two of my trans friends have told me they're never playing PoE2 again. Not only does the game go out of its way to disaccommodate them, but then forum chuds go on Chud Rants about how it's our fault. Because it's not important to the chuds, therefore it cannot possibly be of actual importance to anyone else.

Get over yourself. If people snarling endlessly like whiny infants about how the endgame doesn't cause loot to explode from their ears and shower them in a dozen divines every time they slay a random fish is perfectly A-OK, people being upset over being told "pay unreasonable amounts of money to help deal with your dysphoria" is also perfectly fine.