Voices that are requested to review the "gender fixation" class of the popular MMORPG "Lost Ark" are growing.We plan to respond to occupations that can be selected regardless of gender

Lost Ark, an online action RPG (Lost Ark), which started the official STEAM version of the STEAM version for the United States and Europe from February 11 last month.This work has gained explosive popularity, such as updating the second place in the past due to the simultaneous number of STEAM since the service in (related article).However, the criticism of the class (occupation) system whose gender of this work has been fixed during the service in Western and the United States has been raised.Amazon Games, which is a public and European public publishing, has revealed that it is currently in the middle.

"Lost Ark" is a free online action RPG for South Korea's Game Development Company SMILEGATE.This work is a game with a view of 3D -looking views, and in keyboard/mouse play, it is a system that uses skills and items on the mouse, and uses skills and items on the keyboard.In addition to the exhilarating action elements against the enemies that are flocking, it also includes elements seen in MMO works such as social functions such as guild systems.It's a title like a hybrid of action RPG and MMO.

This work uses a system that allows you to select a character class (occupation) from primary jobs such as warrior and magician.These primary jobs will be derived to multiple higher -ranking jobs as the game progresses.For example, warriors are derived in classes such as Berserkers and War Road.

Given this so far, this work seems to be a game that allows free character build.However, in fact, in the class system of this work, the classes that can be selected depending on the gender of the character are almost fixed.There are gender classifications, such as warrior -based, female characters, fighters/magician/assassin, etc.

These systems were not so large discussions while services were operated in Korea and Japan.However, the service in Western and the United States seems to have been disappointed with the classification of this gender.Soomin Park, Amazon Games franchise leader, has issued a statement to Eurogamer that the gender -fixing class is being responded to eliminating.

According to Soomin Park, each class is deeply related to character models in animation, etc., so it is very time -consuming to introduce it to different gender in existing classes.It seems that it takes more effort than implementing a new class with the same gender.

As a result, it seems that it cannot be improved immediately, but he indicated that the developer, SmileGate, is solving the problem.As part of this, women's Berserker will appear in the Korean version of "Lost Ark" as the next new class (Korean "Lost Ark" is the latest version, and various elements are implemented ahead of the overseas version.).In the latest version of South Korea's Lost Ark, there are not all classes corresponding to men and women, but it seems that the implementation is advancing with priority in launch classes.In the future, gender plans to create more classes between men and women.

As a further problem, there are many costumes for female characters with a high degree of exposure in this work, and criticism has been raised in Western services.According to Soomin Park, the existence of high -exposure costumes is adjusted to inconspicuous on marketing images and character creation screens.For these costumes, it seems that optional equipment with low exposure has been added.However, in consideration of players who want a game experience close to the original Korean version, they will not delete or replace the costumes that have become a problem.

* Various opinions have been received about the animation for female characters.

Gender depictions in Lost Ark have not been so large at the time of service in Asia.However, services in Europe and the United States have rapidly expanded the number of users, and the number of calls for diversity has increased.

The Steam version "Lost Ark" is not currently available from Japan.For domestic, Game On is distributed to PCs on the company's platform PMANG.