Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.131.124.91-20141202182050/@comment-89.69.142.126-20141231233239

174.131.124.91 wrote: Now this might be a touchy subject but, lets say you buy a FullDive Console and go to play a game where you can't customize your avatar like ALO or GGO, how does it know your gender? Does it ask while setting up the Console or is it random or what? It ignores gender. One's apparent sex is chosen during the initial set-up phase, the one that Klein had mentioned requires them to touch all over the body with a sensor and input some settings.

With SAO, at the very least, it had ignored the players' genders, and for a fairly sensible reason. With how the players were stuck in the game with no way to change anything, in most cases it was better to give them a body that is an approximation of their own rather than one corresponding to their apparent gender. It had been mentioned that going into FullDive for too long in a body too different from one's own can be quite disorienting.

With the Amusphere, one could assume the initial set-up process is the same.

Of course, there is always the possibility (though it is merely a speculation on my part) that other games, including possibly ALO, actually do allow creation of avatars whose sex differs from the user's. If that were the case, it is also possible that to have the ability to do that one must change some sort of setting before playing the game, so that those who don't care about such an option, i.e. most players, would have one thing less to care about during avatar creation.