Inclusivity Updates in Dragonflight - Body Type Names, New Pronouns and Voice Options
Dragonflight Alpha brings several new inclusivity updates and character customization changes to World of Warcraft.


Body Type Names
The body type names "Male" and "Female" have been renamed to "Body 1" and "Body 2" in Dragonflight Alpha. This can be seen in both the character creation screen and at the barbershop in-game.




New Pronouns
Datamining hints that players will be able to customize their character's pronouns, although the feature is not available for testing in the first Dragonflight Alpha Build. Current pronoun options include He/Him, She/Her and They/Them.



Voice Options and Inclusivity
In the Developer Interview with Ion Hazzikostas it was revealed that voice options will be coming in Dragonflight.

  • Players will be able to choose the body type and voice independently of each other.
  • The team is proud of the customization options for the Dracthyr race, there are a quadrillion of combinations possible.
  • The game should be as inclusive as possible, so players can customize and express themselves like they want to.

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  1. Aulla's Avatar
    Any chance this makes it to classic too? That would actually make me unsub. I prefer my fantasy videogames with as less political bullshit as possible thank you very much.
  1. Kharadin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aulla View Post
    Any chance this makes it to classic too? That would actually make me unsub. I prefer my fantasy videogames with as less political bullshit as possible thank you very much.
    I don't imagine so, Blizz probably knows that the playerbase that finds retail too hard probably doesn't need to be overloaded with extra mechanics like pronouns.
  1. StillMcfuu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zalraki View Post
    Correct, it was a fantasy game. But now it's a fantasy game that has to adhere to certain very specific gender "neutrality" options that are being enforced by real world issues. Making it not so much fantasy anymore and less enjoyable if you're looking to spend some time away from all troubles.
    Once you create your character, that's it, you are separated from the gender neutrality issues you have.
    Let's be real, even the most brain washed person will always see Body 1 = Male, and Body 2 = Female. There is no getting away from basic human evolutionary recognition that has exited since we walked upright and before. The uncanny valley exists for a reason.
    The game doesn't need to say Male or Female for everyone to know what they are picking.
  1. loras's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Coffeh View Post
    LOL. We're living in crazy times. There aren't male and female anymore.
    Well people can pretend all they like, but ultimately this is just a symptom. The real problem is the conviction that opinion can change reality, in that sense it's a return to medieval religious intolerance and stupidity, just rebranded.

    And mind you denial of reality is not something that is exclusive to the woke, they just try to take it to the absurd and are thus building a backlash tsunami.
  1. Zalraki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by loras View Post
    Well people can pretend all they like,but ultimately this is just a symptom. The real problem is the conviction that opinion can change reality, in that sense it's a return to medieval religious intolerance, just rebranded.

    And mind you denial of reality is not something that is exclusive to the woke, they just try to take it to the absurd and are thus building a backlash tsunami.
    The Earth is flat, climate change is a myth, Heaven is real and your gender/sex is whatever you feel like it is that day.
  1. Kharadin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zalraki View Post
    The Earth is flat, climate change is a myth, Heaven is real and your gender/sex is whatever you feel like it is that day.
    Hot incel take of the day.
  1. OnlineSamantha's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by George Lucas View Post
    Please reconsider your rude demeanor.

    You are not contributing to this friendly conversation in a productive way by acting hysterical.
    There is no friendly conversation to be had with people who deny your right to exist.
  1. Zalraki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by OnlineSamantha View Post
    There is no friendly conversation to be had with people who deny your right to exist.
    True, hysterical people who throw a tantrum when they don't get exactly what they demand should not exist.
  1. Ihavewaffles's Avatar
    The News story post below this one, the previous one.

    It has 4 posts.

    Four.


    This has soon 1000 posts, that is how strongly people oppose this.
  1. Kharadin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zalraki View Post
    True, hysterical people who throw a tantrum when they don't get exactly what they demand should not exist.
    Yeah, it's utterly terrible you didn't just remove yourself from the gene pool the moment you saw this change lmao.
  1. George Lucas's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by OnlineSamantha View Post
    There is no friendly conversation to be had with people who deny your right to exist.
    Of course there is. I don't think normal people deny your individual right to exist, but your right to exist in a collective sense as a trans person, because that is harmful to you and those close to you. Your predicament is very similiar to that of those neckbeard incels in this thread in a sense.

    Maybe have a good walk through the forest. I was once hiking in the Uckermark (I see you live north of Berlin), very beautiful landscape.
  1. RobertMugabe's Avatar
    Yeah let's pretend males and females don't exist and remove any reference from WoW, so that we can pander to all the non-binary people who even when generously estimated make up less than 0.5% of the world's population.

    I can only imagine that the majority of Blizzard's employees don't want to do this either, but is pretty much the result of 1 or a couple of people pushing for this.

    Reminds me of that time my company employed a snowflake (btw. terrible employee who barely even worked) who made us remove all the female toilets and replace them with gender neutral ones. As soon as they left the company we returned all the female toilets.

    Seriously though, for all I care, they can and should add extra pronouns or whatever. I just feel that it is very dumb to remove the terms "male" and "female" for the sake of it.
  1. Trmp's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by AnTwan View Post
    But like, you can still pick a masculine body, a masculine voice, and he/him pronouns. No on/off toggle needed, it's still part of the options. We getting mad about *more* options now?
    You reaction shows you are mad not me... But that is not the point. We got two teams, one wants it, the other does not, so the middle ground is them both want they want


    Quote Originally Posted by Lorgran View Post
    So much this. You're hitting the nail so perfectly, I'd think you're a carpenter...
  1. SinR's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ihavewaffles View Post
    The News story post below this one, the previous one.

    It has 4 posts.

    Four.


    This has soon 1000 posts, that is how strongly people oppose this.
    Maybe nobody really cares about Hunters?
  1. Kharadin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Trmp View Post
    We got two teams, one wants it, the other does not, so the middle ground is them both want they want
    But your team are a bunch of incels that no one cares about, hence the changes.
  1. KOUNTERPARTS's Avatar
    This change does not affect my ability to choose a male body type or female body type at all.
  1. OnlineSamantha's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ShadowyFanatic View Post
    No one is denying your right to exist (talking point). You are denying objective reality. Check any biology textbook ever printed. Actually talk to trans people and they'll (for the most part) tell you they don't honestly believe they can change their sex.

    Additionally, the game does not force you to play a toon based around your biological sex. And you can even sex change in the game after character creation. This is just a gross virtue signal and yet more signs of how awful San Francisco is.
    Nice strawman. Nobody talked about changing your sex. This change is not for binary trans people who want to experience their true gender in all senses of the word, it's for genderqueer or non-binary people who want to mix and match. Granted, it's a minority of a minority, but does it warrant any, much less this level of, outrage?

    Also, everything a corporation does is virtue signaling. They have no motive but profit, obviously this is to garner goodwill amongst a segment of users that they can then exploit later on. Nobody is dumb enough to think they're doing this out of the goodness of their hearts or whatever. And I don't give a single shit about your gripes with San Fransisco.
  1. Zalraki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kharadin View Post
    But your team are a bunch of incels that no one cares about, hence the changes.
    Can someone give little Karen here some attention? They seems desperate for it. Maybe it's Body 1 and/or Body 2 parents were too busy boycotting non-inclusive TV shows to love it.
  1. KOUNTERPARTS's Avatar
    MMO-C moderation is such a troll for not only posting this as a news for the website... but also leaving the comment section up and active in the first place.


    They must have a quota for infractions they have to keep up with. This whole thread is, essentially, against website rules and they made it anyway.


    Kind of /s but not really.
  1. Byleth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kharadin View Post
    But your team are a bunch of incels that no one cares about, hence the changes.
    It's truly astounding that 50% of the posters in this thread I've never seen before.

    Heck, the one you're responding too hasn't even been active since 2019.

    It's almost like they're...

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