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Rust, a video game, has a veil of ignorance
After you've had a character for a while, gender is imposed randomly and permanently.
While I don't play Rust, my impression is that the devs are being dicks (heh) for what looks to be ideological reasons. They say:
They are wrong, of course, what changed was that there was no choice possible and now there is a choice (which they dangle in front of you and then deny to you).
Maybe they should offer an expensive, inconvenient way of changing gender.
Ah, a new monetization technique :-)
Well, not really new. A lot of MMORGS will allow extensive plastic surgery for your character, often once for free and then for a fee.
An interesting side-note is that some (typically Asian) games have gender-locked classes. There is usually some whining about it, but not that much.
I can imagine the whining, though, if there were gender choice but your account was locked to a random class.
I think the whining would be only moderate because most people will say WTF, wonder at the stupidity of the devs, and happily go play something else X-)
Such as creating new Steam accounts and buying the game repeatedly, until you get the desired outcome?
Oh, maybe this was the strategy from the beginning.
I think you misunderstood their comment. They aren't raging proponents of "transgenderism" whatever you seem to think that means.
They were saying that women (50% of the population) were being forced to play as guys when they played Rust.
I don't think there is that implication here.
The funny thing is looking at the responsible party. Just who is responsible for releasing a game where your character could only be male and no female option was available?
Why, I think the devs are women-haters! X-)
Not to mention that even the most rabid proponents of "transgenderism" claim that it's prevalence is anywhere near 50%.
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