Pronouns???

[HyperSMB]

Agreed. Or when fc’s put “lgbt friendly”. You shouldn’t have to put that. It should be assumed. But it’s like everywhere i look people have their sexuality on their search info everywhere and i genuinely don’t get it.

Never assume everyone agrees with you or your lifestyle. Good advice for the world in general. The reason FC's have to list that they are LGBT friendly is because there is a significant portion of the world that is not. Since this is a global game, if you wish to drag politics and sexual identity into your interactions, expect pushback OR remove yourself to a safe space.

LGBT friendly FC's list that they are LGBT friendly to let you know where those safe spaces are.

[Avatre]

What point are they making with their comments? Other than being rude and mocking the community? If they want to have a say in something like this, they should be more informative.

But of course that logic is beyond you.

The point they're making is that they are one and the same with MPK...both are run by a failed troll

[Tharia]

It would be quite easy. You are overcomplicating it. Presumably there is a placeholder token in all lines of dialog where the WoL's personal pronouns appear. Presumably the game replaces the placeholder in all dialog occurrences with the corresponding pronoun via a conditional that calls the function that returns the character's sex. These are reasonable presumptions that any competent programmer would make.

I don't care how bad the game's code base is; there's no way it would take more than twenty minutes to add a gender selector to character creation, add the gender field to the character data, and modify the function that returns the character's sex during dialog pronoun replacement to return the character's gender instead. Then another twenty minutes to add a quick validation into the character loader that silently fixes any existing character data that doesn't have a gender selected to default to the gender matching the character's sex. Hardly any time at all for each localization team to provide add the word for "gender" into the localization dictionary. Maybe a little bit more time to code a dialog box that gives all existing characters the opportunity to set their gender on the first load after the feature is added.

As far as technical difficulty is concerned, this is not a difficult ask, by any means.

Not all lsnguages are as simple as english, considering the ppronoun it changes in some language quite the sentence structure. Not worth the programming cost.

[Nayout]

[Sotaris]

No. I don't want these things in my games.

[MilkieTea]

No. I don't want these things in my games.

You dont want pronouns in your games, I take it?

[LianaThorne]

How is this thread still alive? Thought it was ended like 8 pages ago.

[SilverObi]

I feel like people are responding to other posters and not the OP's original suggestion and it shows. It's already been agreed on by most of the coherent posters in this thread and OP themselves that it'd be quite a bit of work for SE to go back and alter/flag 8+ years of dialogue to account for the various permutations that might exist for desired pronouns as well as languages and that should've been the end of it. Instead here you are arguing over gender politics and "not in muh game" as well as feeding the blatant trolls...

How is this thread still alive? Thought it was ended like 8 pages ago.

I can't agree with you more. It seemed like it'd be over by page 3 this morning but then I see this ongoing trainwreck, though it doesn't surprise me.

[Caurcas]

Never assume everyone agrees with you or your lifestyle. Good advice for the world in general. The reason FC's have to list that they are LGBT friendly is because there is a significant portion of the world that is not. Since this is a global game, if you wish to drag politics and sexual identity into your interactions, expect pushback OR remove yourself to a safe space.

LGBT friendly FC's list that they are LGBT friendly to let you know where those safe spaces are.

Those are a dime a dozen, now where are my "traditional, conservative" FCs. Those are rare.

[Avatre]

Not all lsnguages are as simple as english, considering the ppronoun it changes in some language quite the sentence structure. Not worth the programming cost.

English, simple?

Their, they're, there.

Two, to, too.

Won and one.

Read and read.

And those are just the super common ones that people mess up