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Month: November 2011

Got another Haircut…

Playing Assassin’s Creed like a madwoman right now, both to catch up before the release of Revelations and for my thesis on gaming platforms, I registered for a Uplay account, which lets you earn points in all Ubisoft games and unlock items and other nice stuff (not the big DLCs though, too bad).

There was no question about my gender, and even though it was already linked with my Facebook profile, which states that I’m female… here’s what I ended up with:

The default Uplay profile has a clearly male profile pic.
Lookin' good! I intended to get another haircut anyway.

Now, I’m not overreacting or claiming that women are the predominant demographic for a service like that, but… since I already allow you access, can’t you either use my profile info on FB and assign me a soldier chick pic (or my FB profile pic), or go the Twitter/XBOX Live/etc. way and use something neutral, like an Assassin whose face you can’t even see properly? 😉 [Side note: I think I’m going to buy the Ezio black women’s costume.]

Yes, it’s the little things that make me happy. Or laugh out loud, as in this case. 😀

And it reminds me of Jeanne d’Arc in Civilization 5…

[Edit.]

Here’s another one: I can’t at all change the profile pic. What would be so hard about taking Claudia, Rosa or a courtesan’s image and offering me a choice? On the other hand, it *almost* fulfills what I said about obscuring the face so much that it’s unisex. Close, but no apple (of Eden).

The default gameCard profile pic shows an Assassin; the hood is drawn into the face to ALMOST obscure the gender.
My Uplay GameCard
Posted on 10. November 20119. February 2012Categories Gender Studies, On my own accountLeave a comment on Got another Haircut…
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