While I don’t play Rust, my impression is that the devs are being dicks (heh) for what looks to be ideological reasons. They say:
“Technically nothing has changed, since half the population was already living with those feelings. The only difference is that whether you feel like this is now decided by your SteamID instead of your real life gender.”
They are wrong, of course, what changed was that there was no choice possible and now there is a choice (which they dangle in front of you and then deny to you).
I think the whining would be only moderate because most people will say WTF, wonder at the stupidity of the devs, and happily go play something else X-)
While I don’t play Rust, my impression is that the devs are being dicks (heh) for what looks to be ideological reasons. They say:
They are wrong, of course, what changed was that there was no choice possible and now there is a choice (which they dangle in front of you and then deny to you).
Maybe they should offer an expensive, inconvenient way of changing gender.
Ah, a new monetization technique :-)
Well, not really new. A lot of MMORGS will allow extensive plastic surgery for your character, often once for free and then for a fee.
An interesting side-note is that some (typically Asian) games have gender-locked classes. There is usually some whining about it, but not that much.
I can imagine the whining, though, if there were gender choice but your account was locked to a random class.
I think the whining would be only moderate because most people will say WTF, wonder at the stupidity of the devs, and happily go play something else X-)
Such as creating new Steam accounts and buying the game repeatedly, until you get the desired outcome?
Oh, maybe this was the strategy from the beginning.
Not to mention that even the most rabid proponents of “transgenderism” claim that it’s prevalence is anywhere near 50%.
Original thread here.