WoW Dragonflight is un-gendering character creation

World of Warcraft Dragonflight
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The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:World of Warcraft Dragonflight alpha is underway, and a tiny character creation change has turned out to be one of the expansion's m🐷ost notable updates - your character is no longer gend𒁏ered at character creation.

You would 🦩previously choose either 'male' or 'female' when you make a new character in WoW. As of the Dragonflight alpha, you now simply choose between 'body 1' and 'body 2'. As notes, this is similar to how games like Halo Infinite and Elden Ring have handled gender selection in their character creators.

The two body types are still very traditionally masculine and feminine 𒈔- big muscles on one, and apparent breasts and hips on the other. Still, in a game where your gender doesn't really matter, it's good to see Blizzard backing away ever𒅌 so slightly from narrowly defining your character by their body type.

Wowhead additionally notes thওat in some versions of the Dragonflight alpha build, though not the current one, strings referencing a pronoun selection o▨ption exist, hinting that you may eventually be able to choose whether your character is referred to as he/him, she/her, or they/them. It is worth noting, however, that even older WoW content typically refers to your character in ambiguous, gender-neutral ways, so a pronoun selection option may show only limited benefits in-game.

Despite the expansion's late announcement, Bliz🐻zard says Dragonflight is still ဣon track to launch this year. Its early pro🐬mises have been intriguing to lapsed WoW fan📖s, th🔴ough time will tell if Blizzard can make good with the expansion's release.

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