Why is there only 1 Male Companion and 3 Female?

TheGent

oooooo im sorry 3 Female and 1 male. 🤷🏻‍♂️

TheGent

ArchMikem wrote: »

Because the next chapter will give you two Male companions.

that would be nice, Im hoping for a Gandalf type Greybeard/Elder Nord & Redguard Dragonhunter like Sai'Sahan

TheGent

spartaxoxo wrote: »

TheGent wrote: »

it just seems more fair that way. i mean 1/ 4 is kinda off balance atleast make it 2/4...i think it puts off a bad message. and is quite hypocritical really. because if it were 4 males and 1 female the whole world will be outraged, people would be getting fired at ZoS for all types of buzzwords.

There are 8 male patrons and 0 female patrons, and there is one thread about it. There are 4 extra men, no dev statement, and a general lack of caring. Not that there needs to be any outrage on any of this, this is one of the most egalitarian games on the market.

There is 1 male companion and 3 female companions, and there has been several threads about it and multiple dev statements and people have generally made it loud and clear they want more guys. And none of that is from what I would call the "whole world would be outraged."

For games across the industry, there are more games that only male than only female. This is from 2017-2021, the last five years.



Just because there is a conversation around gender in video games, does not mean it's sexist and the whole world would be outraged if this game had released two male companions. This franchise has not generated that type of outrage in years, because it's one of the most equal franchises on the market.

They do need more male companions and they are coming, the game has had only a singular new companion duo since it's initial one. There's no need to make this out to be more than it is. This is not a world wide outrage level thing, regardless if they were all male or all female. Let there be more than such a tiny sample size before making those kinds of judgements.

what is this chart? lol...im talking about the 3:1 female/male companion ratio in ESO, CURRENTLY.
and i responded to the one guys post already when he said the team knows about the community wanting male companions i did not know they know. I commented on that.

TheGent

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Thanks for sharing my previous comments on this @spartaxoxo. Appreciate it.

Just want to reiterate this here. The team is aware of this feedback regarding more male companions and factoring this in for future consideration. I have passed feedback similar to the ask for more male companions myself. So they are aware of the feedback.

Lastly, please consider how these questions are phrased and the potential accusatory nature of phrasing. There will be times when gender identity of companions will be the same while other times it won’t be. There is no malicious intent behind it, but the team is aware of the current feedback around the current balance.

Thank you. Thats all I wanted to know. 👍🏻

Kiralyn2000

Because they felt like it?

Because it's no big deal?

/shrug, whatever.

No matter what they make for companions, there'll be plenty of people who don't like the ones they make for some reason, or wish that it had been something else.

(like, what if the two latest had been a female Khajit, and a male Argonian. "I don't want to run an Argonian, why didn't you make a male ________" There's no way to satisfy everyone, so they might as well just do what the designers are inspired to do.)


edit: personally, of the companions released so far, the only one I'm interested in using is Mirri.

Bouldercleave

Treselegant wrote: »

I say "who cares" because people that are so passionate about it are overreacting.

Hey, people disagreeing with you about something that is important to them in game isn't 'overreacting', sheesh, you'll be using the word 'hysterical' next.

Hey, There's no reason to get hysterical about it...

Psiion

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