Gender Specific Messages

I am about as unsympathetic to proposed changes to the English language for reasons of political correctness as you can imagine, and I will never support the "xe" nonsense proposed by some social-engineering whackos. That said, I see the issue raised by Lizzy as one of an entirely different character; it is one of basic courtesy. The problem here is one of uniform computer programming, and the issue is easily resolved with better programming. It would be relatively easy to add a layer of programming that recognizes all players as male or female, based on the players having ticked a gender box (please, let's just keep it to two genders: male or female) on their player profile. All generic, automatically generated messages could then be tailored with the appropriate gender-specific pronouns in English or any other language. This is not exactly rocket surgery, as it is done every day in a variety of business and social contexts across a wide variety of software platforms.

This may not be the highest priority for the game developers, but it should be added to their to-do list to be addressed in the future.

Easier to just add something in the terms of use that states that masculine pronouns are used, but they refer to males, females, and others equally. That way not to excite the lbgt community, people who indentify as other species, squiggles, tanks etc etc etc.

Sure, it would be a lot easier, Dix, and it would involve absolutely no work whatsoever to leave it the way it is. As I said above, however, this is a simple matter of courtesy, and it has nothing to do with the LGBT community. Recognizing the correct gender of a woman who wants to be recognized as a woman should be a no-brainer. Why would anyone oppose that?

i was simply addressing the rest of the thread. I simply think that the op has an axe to grind. Of course it would not bother me in any way to have a gender specific message, but look at the responses given by just this tiny community. At this point if the devs should cater to this lone individual, they are basically admitting liability. Also, this game is at least, in part, a role playing game.We re assuming personas completely different from our own. There were no female generals in ww2. So, even though the player may be female, the role she is cast is male. I guess my main beef is that the op is using manipulation, and passive aggressive extortion to get what she wants. Look up her post on the cow forum under "girlpower."

Next time I play Tomb Raider I want to play as "Larry" Croft.

What's the point of this thread..........

Perfect example. passive aggressive extortion. Or maybe even martyrdom.

Why? If you're having fun, stay. Nothing more needs to be said at this point. The forum administrators and developers know this needs to be addressed; it's a question of priorities. And, in an honest moment, I think everyone knows this would not exactly be "heavy lifting" to address.

lol honey

Just my two cents worth, as a historically placed game, there were no female world leaders of WWII. And If we have He/She pronouns, someone will complain that we don't have Xe, or whatever nonsense comes next. And then someone will complain that it doesn't support fluidity where they identified as female at the start of the match, but then identified as female when they won.

I am sorry you found the words he and him so disheartening, but if you don't want to play a game because of a pronoun, I would think maybe you don't yet have the maturity to play in an online format game. Things WILL offend people. These days pretty much everything does...

How dare they assume your gender! You should definitely write a letter, drive to your local college campus, go to their safe space where words don't hurt and wait for a response.

Hope this helps!

ayyyyyy, that game me a laugh, thanks

I won't cross-post my reply to a duplicate thread here: Duplicate Thread - I Patton's Reply

@Lizzy
I think I Patton is right, that you should refer to your other thread made for this topic.

Respect <-- linked again here

in your other thread you will note that the Community Manager herself [yep, she is a lady] replied to show you that the support staff are aware of your issue raised.
Bump that topic and get the CM's attention again if you feel the need to do so.

Since there are now something like 64 genders, I do not understand this in any way, seems gender neutral is the way to go. However, that will also offend some, so there is no good answer for something such as this in todays sensitive world.

You must have a much more interesting sex life than I do.