Human avatars
by Damadar on Feb.05, 2008, under Digos, Dragons Eye Productions, Furrums, News, Rants, Roleplay
Original posting can be found in this thread.
First, adding ‘humans’ would not make Furcadia a clone of WoW any more than it would make it a clone of Deal or No Deal. They’re not the same thing, they’re barely in the same Genre.
Furcadia, as Felorin has said numerous times here on the forums, is not about furry. It’s about user created content.
Anthropomorphism is all about being /like/ a human. By the way, Humans are animals too, in case you all weren’t aware, so saying, ‘it’s all about animals’ is kinda silly.
The thing a lot of people overlook insofar as Furcadia is concerned is that The game is pretty much unique insofar as other games go. I don’t, for example, get the same feel from a game like Second Life or World of Warcraft that I do from Furcadia.
People aren’t claiming that this 1 avatar will make-or-break their Furcadia experience, so please stop telling them to GTFO for wanting to play a human, and stop trying to act like it would flat out destroy the game entirely; it would do neither, just like every update hasn’t done so.
Anybody remember how many people were complaining and moaning about how much Gendered avatars were going to ruin Furcadia? Or how about Feral avatars ruining Furcadia?
Seems Furcadia’s still standing to me, and both of those were huge milestones that Furcadia overcame that a lot of players wanted, and a lot of players didn’t. A lot of both sides are still around.
The avatars aren’t Furcadia’s biggest draw to keep players around anyway. It’s the community and dreams that do it. The addition of a human avatar wouldn’t change either of those dynamically.
If DEP does offer one, (which I’m sure they will in the future; I’d almost bank on it,) it will 98.8% likely be a pay-for ‘seasonal’ avatar. Why? Because they aren’t in-cannon. For private dreams, you can turn those off, so it won’t mess up continuity. It’ll make Furcadia a lot of money; that’ll allow’em to add in more features.
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February 5th, 2008 on 4:52 PM
Lets review.
Ferals are ruining furcadia 4ever.
BAHs are ruining furcadia forever.
New people are ruining furcadia forever.
“Capitalism” (advertisements) are ruining furcadia 4ever.
Roleplay is dead/dying and according to my estimate, has been for 7 years. (Tell that to the people in the Imag)
And humans will ruin furcadia 4ever.
February 6th, 2008 on 2:30 AM
I think people’s main issue with human avatars is that, although the anthropomorphic animal (non-human animals, to be clear) theme isn’t what Furcadia is mainly about, it is one of the more visible things that makes Furcadia unique. Hundreds of other games have human avatars. If people want human avatars, it’s argued, they’re free to play those games instead. Of course, that argument would only hold water if the “furry” theme was the main thing going for Furcadia, which it isn’t, as you mention. I agree, human avatars wouldn’t ruin Furcadia. It may even balance out the ferals/ferians which are on the far edge of anthropomorphism. I think it’s probably just as likely that some other primate like monkeys would be added before humans, though. Anthropomorphic monkeys would probably satisfy a lot of those who want humans, but still be in keeping with the anthropomorphic animal theme. At least, if I was in charge, I’d add monkeys (and lizards, and naked mole-rats, and…)
I wonder why this subject, though. Have you heard rumors, reporDar?