Remember how last time we talked about mixed quality of Crowfall designs there was no male druid concept released? Well now the game’s site got an update both the druid lady, and our “favorite” drow Black Canary assassin were joined by their male counterparts.

How is that vaguely-foresty supermodel lady supposed to be the same class as the mystical shirtless dude? How do their designs relate to one another once we subtract green hair and decorative skulls? I’m seriously asking that. Beside the aforementioned details, those two have nothing in common.

As for the assassin… character description doesn’t seem to be changed, so there’s no explanation how a male one survived the customary fillicide and reached adulthood, but he looks rather miserable compared to his… sister, I guess?

Given their people’s lore, his expression and that bleeding ear, I’m not comfortable counting him into the “sexy male warrior” category. Moreover, even without the above reservations, his design is not sexualized like the female counterpart is. I don’t see what the purpose of including him was.

Interestingly, now classes archetypes are sorted into humans, demihumans (essentially dwarves and elves) and “other” (more beastly characters). While all humans and 2/3 of demihumans come in two genders, ¼ of other races classes archetypes do not have female concept art and are referred to as male. Probably because it’s more difficult to give boobs to a guinea pig, a minotaur and a goat-person.

The game also proudly advertises itself as the most anticipated MMO of 2015 (for 2016), according to mmorpg.com’s staff ranking, a title EOS: Echo of Soul claimed to have based on a limited voting event on mmosite.com. 

As before, we’d like to point out that Crowfall is a still-in-beta crowdfunded game and we encourage all of readers interested in development of the project to give the creators feedback regarding double standard in their character design.

~Ozzie

PS: I really wish the creators of this game learned what an “archetype” means and tried to not be forcibly unique with their terminology.