It’s 2022. It was called Remaster. Patch 2.4 has already killed the purist argument.
Give us gender selection please.
Please no canon arguments, like there are no female paladins in Diablo 2. (I don’t know the Diablo story, do you?) Warcraft doesn’t have female nightelf druids or male warriors as well, yet you can roll both.
Having a gender choice wouldn’t be any more canon breaking (if it is) than having 8 identical sorceress twins in one game.
men of the amazon tribes dont fight, they are like rich house wives. there are no male sorceress’s(this is due to the particular clan the sorc comes from being exlusively all female spell casters). there are female paladins, Farah in act 2 is one of them. females in the barbarian tribes generally dont go into combat, but in D3 things changed. assassins are all females. druid is unknown, theyre secretive. necro have a small number of women in their ranks.
I know you want to be able to choose gender and all, but there’s a story to this all. Perhaps in the future they will add some males/females who have similar playstyle? like bringing DH male into d2?
Huge effort, you need character models, lore implementation, dialogues, animations, voice actors, etc etc.
Definitely not worth it. They better work on anti-bot system and multiplayer features.
I’m not opposed to it; I’d love the choice.
But it would be way too much work for an incremental patch.
Adding gender-choice would be an Expansion kinda thing.
Before i reply, just wanna make it clear: i am neither sexist, nor racist !
Now gender selection for all modern new games, i totally vote for that.
But not for D2. For me, it desroys the original feeling of the game if all of a sudden we see female barbs or male sorcs running around in Diablo 2.
Btw if gender selection is allowed, then also race selection has to be allowed as a consequence. And actually also age selection, since that could be seen discriminating aswell by some people …
But it would be a different game then. And I want the original character feeling of Diablo 2.
You do realize all patch 2.4 did was tweak behaviors, not add entirely new assets to the game, right? What you’re asking for is expansion level content.
Gender is a spectrum so you need a gender slider. Also, not all gender associated traits are heteronormative so you need a slider to adjust individual physical features. Some popular game developers are way ahead of the west in terms of completeness of gender expression. Blizzard could learn a thing or two from the developers of games like Black Desert Online and Honey Select.