Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Raou]

Answer the question, though: how much is enough? When will people be satisfied with the level of representation? I mean, there are already people okay with just being able to have darker skin, if we want to work our way back up this "slippery slope."

Maybe more than a just a face/hair few options to make something closer to what people might want? Just spitballing here. Not like this hasn't been explained ad nauseam throughout this thread.

[Dualgunner]

Maybe more than a just a face/hair few options to make something closer to what people might want? Just spitballing here. Not like this hasn't been explained ad nauseam throughout this thread.

How much is "more than just a few"? Do they need an entire catalogue of PoC-approved hairstyles? Jawlines? Eye shapes? What about the people who will turn around and cry that their attempts to represent PoC are, themselves, racist because they don't get every last nuance of how a black face is *supposed* to be shaped with their limited pixel art?

[MaloraYuki]

I don’t see why real life racial issues need to be brought into a game? How about base your characters on actual game lore instead of screaming about race? Hylander hyur is ala mhigan there for look at how highlander hyurs look based on lore it fits, midlander hyurs, same. Both aura tribes same thing. List goes on and on. It’s fantasy, with made up lore! I mean I play a toon with a more tan complection because I like how it looks not because it matches my IRL genetics. Your toon is not you it’s a made up character in a made up world with LIMITED character selection.

[Joven]

I like both of those styles except the highlights on the first one. Looks like she tried to paint with the ends.

[Enla]

I like both of those styles except the highlights on the first one. Looks like she tried to paint with the ends.

Yeah, that one does need some tweaking but after going back and looking at the old contest threads it just makes me wish they'd either implement some of them or hold another contest.

[Joven]

Yeah, that one does need some tweaking but after going back and looking at the old contest threads it just makes me wish they'd either implement some of them or hold another contest.

How often do they hold the contests? Everytime I hear about them they've been over for a few months already.

[Enla]

How often do they hold the contests? Everytime I hear about them they've been over for a few months already.

Rarely. The hair one was from nearly three years ago, and we've had... I want to say two gear design contests and one housing contest since then? Also a screenshot contest.

[Joven]

Rarely. The hair one was from nearly three years ago, and we've had... I want to say two gear design contests and one housing contest since then? Also a screenshot contest.

You would think they would hold one a few months before every patch since that's when the new hair is usually added

[Anatha]

Racism is real.

The game lacks diversity along real world racial lines.

The character creator is not discriminatory.


All of these things are 100% indisputably true, as well as have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

The only real "race" in this game is anime. That eternally ambiguous wholly subjective canvas on which people are welcome to project their own idea of what it is and isn't.


That being said, it might be nice to have a wider range of hairstyles, for the sake of people who don't want anime hair on their anime kitties.

[Magic-Mal]

So can we have African but not actually African hairstyles and features to reference Africa? Doesn't break any more rules than the Ao Dai.