Quote Originally Posted by Anvaire View Post
This is actually simple to rectify, the tags look for "male" or "female" so they would just need to add a choice so the player chooses and then over time update the game to add the option for "they"

Adding "they" could also be added to the other races as a choice.

The biggest issue isn't "can" they do it, but rather "should" they.

For me that's a resounding yes. Though I would never use it as an option myself. But I think this is a separate issue to the one OP is asking for.

For the question of a non binary race, I think that could be really interesting or awful depending on the design and implementation - but for me its a no simply because I think they should sort the Hrothgar and Viera Issues before adding another which would face similar issues.

In place of new races, i would advocate new clans, faces and customisation options instead.

So I guess my position is:

- No to nonbinary race (While current issues remain unresolved)
- Yes to non binary / trans identification
- yes to more current race customisation

- Yes to nonbinary race once current issues faced by Hrothgar and Viera are resolved and only if the new race would not have similar issues.
I didn't say they can't. I said they won't (Ie. Not gonna happen). And yes redoing the text wouldn't be too bad, but the voices? So what do we do about 2.0, insert the word they using the current voice actors and now we hear an out of place voice for that particular actor (since the 2.0 VOs are all gone) or do we re-record ALL of the 2.0 voices ... either way that's a lot of money for little to no return on investment for SE.

I am not opposed to this idea, I just know practically it won't happen. The best we could hope for is you get to choose which gender you want (male/female/non-binary) and choose the gender you get to see in game (male/female). With this they could MAYBE (big maybe) start doing non-binary text and voice AFTER you have played through the expansions that didn't have that option THEN you get to hear your non-binary pronouns.

I just don't see them doing any of this because it wouldn't add enough value (from their perspective) to add any of this.