So far I don't see any virtue signaling in Path of Exile.
The Ranger class is an obvious dyke and has some anti-male voice lines but there are only a couple during the story part that aren't repeated in the much larger endgame.
Also its free with almost no in-game ads for the cosmetics (one announcement line in the chat every few hours). The initial stash size is plenty to get a single toon through to the endgame.
Strongly suggest using a build guide unless you are cool with learning by failing and throwing away unviable toons that you dumped 10s of hours into.
There is a tiny bit of it, and there was the colossal fuckup that was replacing the HUD due to screaming of the usual types back at the height of Tracer's Butt-gate. Thankfully they put it mostly back later with kind of a refreshing "fuck you this is better" vibe.
Basically was two slaves chained up, and that was female exploitation or something. They changed it to two SUPER generic images of a skull and a lion. Then later changed it to the twin-goddesses of the Sun and Moon, in poses reminiscent of the original slaves, but not chained up now. It was absolutely a censorship move, later mildly undone with something that wasn't a slap-job, but it's still very stupid the reasoning behind it all. One person complained on the forum. Just like with Tracer in Overwatch.
The dialog lines do give you some hope for humanity though, there's very little of the expected politics you get from most other games. I especially like the dialog differences based on your character that lend personality to your character choice rather than just a skin you're wearing. My main complaint is that the characters are all variously ugly with some very rare exceptions. I wouldn't mind a slightly more attractive cast, haha.
Scion sounds like a sitcom housewife. She literally complains the horrific undead Frankenstein Monster reminds her of her ex-husband, in a "eeeh? Eeeeeh? Amirite ladies? Bazunga!" tone of voice.
It makes me so sad. She had such good dialogue. At least the wiki still has all her old lines. I should dig through the files to see if they're still in there, sometime.
The original life and mana maidens are easily the most superior of the three options. It'd be nice if they COULD be options, just something in graphical settings. The dumb censor and the current one are just sort of... there, while the original felt like it was incorporated into the design (which is probably was).
So far I don't see any virtue signaling in Path of Exile.
The Ranger class is an obvious dyke and has some anti-male voice lines but there are only a couple during the story part that aren't repeated in the much larger endgame.
Also its free with almost no in-game ads for the cosmetics (one announcement line in the chat every few hours). The initial stash size is plenty to get a single toon through to the endgame.
Strongly suggest using a build guide unless you are cool with learning by failing and throwing away unviable toons that you dumped 10s of hours into.
There is a tiny bit of it, and there was the colossal fuckup that was replacing the HUD due to screaming of the usual types back at the height of Tracer's Butt-gate. Thankfully they put it mostly back later with kind of a refreshing "fuck you this is better" vibe.
Basically was two slaves chained up, and that was female exploitation or something. They changed it to two SUPER generic images of a skull and a lion. Then later changed it to the twin-goddesses of the Sun and Moon, in poses reminiscent of the original slaves, but not chained up now. It was absolutely a censorship move, later mildly undone with something that wasn't a slap-job, but it's still very stupid the reasoning behind it all. One person complained on the forum. Just like with Tracer in Overwatch.
Original: https://www.keenandgraev.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PoE_Duelist_and_Hud.png
The hasty replace: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LjzkHljX63Y/maxresdefault.jpg
The current: https://imgur.com/6h7naqG
The dialog lines do give you some hope for humanity though, there's very little of the expected politics you get from most other games. I especially like the dialog differences based on your character that lend personality to your character choice rather than just a skin you're wearing. My main complaint is that the characters are all variously ugly with some very rare exceptions. I wouldn't mind a slightly more attractive cast, haha.
You forgot the part where they rewrote scion from "What the fuck is going on?" to "Men, amirite?"
Scion sounds like a sitcom housewife. She literally complains the horrific undead Frankenstein Monster reminds her of her ex-husband, in a "eeeh? Eeeeeh? Amirite ladies? Bazunga!" tone of voice.
It makes me so sad. She had such good dialogue. At least the wiki still has all her old lines. I should dig through the files to see if they're still in there, sometime.
The original life and mana maidens are easily the most superior of the three options. It'd be nice if they COULD be options, just something in graphical settings. The dumb censor and the current one are just sort of... there, while the original felt like it was incorporated into the design (which is probably was).