Obviously everyone hates change, and so player reactions to any change in any game tend to be negative. But sometimes changes are just objectively poor, and that seems to be the case with the avatar updates for POGO. I mean, the fact that every character now looks like it's straddling an imaginary traffic cone certainly doesn't help.
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The majority of issues people have are focused around what might at first seem like a progressive change: the removal of gender options. You can no longer choose between being male or female, instead having all head, body and hair options put together. Great, right? That's far more inclusive, and only the wahhiest crybaby would struggle to just pick the one that matches their own preference from the list. Oh, except in doing this, Niantic has replaced what was already there with a bunch of androgynous body-type options, a weird middle-ground compromise that offers far less variety. You can now be fat or thin, but that's about it.
Hair options are especially dreadful, with nothing representing just a generic short hair style, and all options beyond "short" contradict the neutral body options with overtly female-styled designs. And while there are many and varied skin-tones to choose from (although if you're white, expect to now be anaemic), it's miserable when it comes to hair options for people of color. It's what you'd expect of a shitty off-brand MMO, not one of the biggest mobile games in the world.
kotaku.com
