Rust Dev Responds to "Extreme" Reaction to New Gender/Race Changes

[MikeRox]

Aeolus451 said:

BlacKJesuS said:

 

 

Nah been complaints since day 1 about being a black or female character mainly...the community  blew it outta proportion...I'm still waiting for one of my shared likeness characters to  carry a smg instead of a shotgun or explosives...but that doesn't ruin the game for me

People want to play as characters they can relate to or identify with. Similar race/sex makes sense. People from many different races and males/females/transexuals complained about it. There's a reason why most devs won't use a randomized race/sex for player generation without being able to customize their character's look. 

 

I really don't get this whole thing of needing to identify with a game avatar to be able to enjoy a game. Seems pretty narcissistic to need a likeness to yourself to enjoy a game.

 

Have people really lost the imagination to be able to enter someone else's world?

 

Somehow I don't think Mario became so big due to the large number of overweight Italian plumbers with twins/brothers...