Hey everyone 🙂
Great feedback on this and I thank you all for your input on this topic. I will make sure that the feedback gets to our team, and we can have further discussion on this.
-rephii
@BinkyStrider wrote:Ok we can choose to be a female avatar, that's a good thing. (I know some of you boys are groaning right?) but the My Team driver pool has 0...zero....nada female drivers to choose from.
Nope not groaning. Finally get an answer to a question I was asking myself after a podium celebration. I wondered how women perceive this game as I can find only one female crew member in all those cutscenes filled with men.
The solution for more female drivers in the Formula 1 game is to get every driver from the W series into the pool.
While I agree that players should be able to play as or with a woman if they want, I do want to say that I would not want these women to enter my career saves in any way. Just like I don't want icons in my career. I just want to play with drivers who actually are driving in F1 or F2. Just a realism thing, nothing more or less. Would love to see a woman in F2 and eventually F1. I even had Tatiana Calderon as my teammate in a previous game. But as she's no longer in F2, I'm fine with her being out of the game now.
It could be like an extra options when starting a career. You can choose to use icons or not.
From my own perspective I don't see any need for more women in the game. If they are not there in real life, I don't want them in my game (emphasis on 'my' game. Have no problem if others can use them in their game).
What I do find annoying is that male drivers get referred to as 'they'. Nobody talks about Max Verstappen as 'they'. It's a 'he'. It would be good if players have the option to be a male/female/gender neutral driver, but don't use pronounces for drivers that nobody uses in real life. It's weird.
