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.
Remember Crowfall? Since the last time we commented on it, the game grew a few more character options. Yet so far, the Assassin remains the same aggressively uncreative mix of a Warcraft elf, Black Canary and a drow. Plus (crow?) wings, splatter eye makeup/tattoo and a boob window, cause why the hell not.
With no improvement since Februrary, I thought I’d give her a try at the bingo.
I would gladly cross out “Looks nothing like the male version of the same outfit” square just by the virtue that so far most classes archetypes were designed relatively equal, but her people cheated out of it by being a female-only society.
As for the newer classes, Crowfall continues to be an uneven mix of designs that are nicely equal…
…ones that would be equal if less focus was put on female character boobs…
…(also why is male ranger allowed to be middle-aged while female one’s depicted as youthful and pretty?)…
….and this druid class, whose gender dimorphism status is stuck in the limbo until male version is revealed.
Here’s hoping the male druid would actually match her in the “vaguely forest-themed fancy fashion supermodel” department.
And since it’s an independent project that includes crowd-funding, I encourage everyone interested in becoming a backer to bring up the feedback
regarding character designs, both positive and negative, to the crew.
~Ozzie
