‘World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight’ removes gendered language in character creation
nme.comWorld Of Warcraft: Dragonflight will be removing gendered language from its character creation menu, according to the newly released alpha.The Dragonflight alpha went live yesterday (July 15) and gave players the first glimpse at what to expect from the new expansion.
This included the revamped character creation screen which will now exclude the use of gender-specific terminology.In the existing game, when creating a character players are presented with either ‘male’ or ‘female’.
However, Dragonflight will be changing this to ‘body 1’ and ‘body 2’.A new Wowhead post also notes another change currently not implemented on the Dragonflight alpha, but datamined strings indicate it will be added to the game, is the option for players to select their pronouns.
Apparently, the game will let players choose between he/him, she/her or they/them, as well as a preferred voice.“What we don’t know is how these options would be used though, as there doesn’t appear to be any place to actually select this customization, and neither gender nor pronouns have ever been referenced in any player UI element,” Wowhead explains.However, it’s notable that the game already avoids referencing the player using pronouns, instead choosing to call them “champion” or “hero”.
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