The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.
QuoteWe understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people. We understand that you may now be a gender that you don’t identify with in real-life. We understand this causes you distress and makes you not want to play the game anymore. 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.
Your gender is linked to your SteamID, so what you're assigned to you're essentially stuck with. I'm fine with this, as I understand it's just a game. Others however, are not happy with this change.
I can understand both sides of the argument, people want their character to reflect them as an extension of themselves. I am a male in any game that lets me choose, simply because I also have that view of wanting it to represent me, but it's certainly not a deal-breaker.
Garry's twitter has been full of people complaining about it, and the Rust Steam forum has a few posts complaining about it as expected.
Honestly, I think give it a week or two and people will calm down about it. What a weird thing to get so up in arms over—it's a game. Do people who complain about this steer away from every game where they can't choose a gender? I don't think so.
You can see the full update log here.
You can find Rust on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Kimyrielle Apr 13, 2016
[quote=tuubi]How can you possibly know that any significant number of players actually hates this feature enough to stop playing? /quote]
Did you read the OP? At all?
Did you read the OP? At all?
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BTW, I do get it that you and many others feel that being able to customize your game experience is important, whereas I see it a bit like demanding at least two versions of every book and movie with alternate protagonists so that the audience can pick and choose whichever they find most relatable. And if this is about ideology, I agree that there's a lot of prejudice, bigotry and downright idiocy in the world, but demanding artists and entertainers to fix this is a bit too much to ask.
Quoting: tuubiHow can you possibly know that any significant number of players actually hates this feature enough to stop playing? /quote]Yes, I did, and I didn't find anything concrete that would have answered my questions. I address Garry's "twitter being full" in my post with the comment about people making noise about it on the internet. Does that mean ten people? A hundred? Thousands? Were they even customers or just your run-of-the-mill Internet angry people? My questions were of genuine curiosity, I'm not calling anyone a liar. Maybe players collectively and genuinely hated the change as you said. I just don't see much evidence of this significantly hurting their business, and Facepunch hasn't imploded just yet.
Did you read the OP? At all?
BTW, I do get it that you and many others feel that being able to customize your game experience is important, whereas I see it a bit like demanding at least two versions of every book and movie with alternate protagonists so that the audience can pick and choose whichever they find most relatable. And if this is about ideology, I agree that there's a lot of prejudice, bigotry and downright idiocy in the world, but demanding artists and entertainers to fix this is a bit too much to ask.
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Quoting: KimyrielleAnd really, so far I haven't heard a reason to implement such a feature that I wouldn't immediately dismiss as completely and utterly stupid.
The reason quite obviously is to show male players(*) what discomfort female players(*) are facing most of the time.
We want (some) computer games to be seen as art?
Well then, art is not always comfortable.
(*) if they find this a concern at all
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