‘World of Warcraft: Dragonflight’ won’t use gender language in character builder

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is joining the ranks of the game with character generator includes more than. Both Wowhead and Polygon note that the new alpha release of the expansion has removed the gender language from its character generator. Instead of the male and female options you normally see in these tools, they are now divided into “Content 1” and “Content 2” sections respectively. While they effectively provide the same traits as before, you can now build a gender-nonconforming adventurer without any jargon.
Wowhead also found code suggesting that you can choose pronouns he/he, she/she, and they/they in a future release, which might help other players address the character yours appropriately. Game director Ion Hazzikostas also hinted in an interview that there might be a way to choose your character’s voice at some point, although the most recent alpha version does make reference to the feature. that potential.
The changes may not be as dramatic as you would like. For example, you cannot have beard and chest on the same letter of the alphabet. However, this can make World of Warcraft more attractive if you are not binary, transgender, or otherwise do not fit into the conventional gender representation.
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