they planned to introduce a toggle to hide women and non-white characters from their medieval murderfest. Those claims, I should say, were made by Triternion themselves, in an interview between two of the company’s artists and PC Gamer. The official statement says that they never had plans for a toggle on non-white characters, that they discussed but dismissed the idea of a toggle to hide women characters, and that the two artists were “were ill-informed of this decision.”

“First and foremost, Triternion does not, nor have we ever, had plans to add a customization option that would force a white male default,” it says. “This is an absurd idea that stems from a misunderstanding in a recent interview by PC Gamer with two of our artists. These artists, both uninvolved with character development went into a verbal interview with minimal PR experience and ended up answering some of the questions in a misleading way, which combined with a lack of context, led to some very controversial statements.”

OK, fine. It’s good that they don’t plan on having a toggle on characters because they’re afraid some of those characters would annoy sexists and racists.

“The responses given were referring to the gender part of the questions, which were based off an old controversial ‘gender toggle’ idea, with the intention being to give the player options to play the game with only female characters, only male characters, or both.”

Less good. PC Gamer updated their original story with longer quotes, including the questions they asked,

Pogs04/07/19 3:37PM
I don’t get it. Any online game with a chat system should know that they sadly may attract a ‘toxic’ element particular in these competitive games. They should be set up from day one to have mechanisms to deal with it. Similarly in their forums. You don’t let these things fester and take hold and then try to pull back on it. You do it from day one. No excuse end of.