"A cheerful, boisterous fellow Sunspear, Koss has almost as much faith in you as he does in himself. As a Sunspear, you need never fight alone..."
Anet, you sure you want to go this route? A cheerful, boistrous spear-thrower with a big afro?
There's a limit to how much you can control what the player-base does. People will be idiots and racists on their own, but do you really want to embrace stereotype like this as part of the story?
I think you should be striving to have characters that represent the way that all kinds of people on the planet look- even idealized. In that sense, its great to see non-white character models. However, this sure seems like toxic territory based on the initial representation of "Koss".
Let's face it: there is a huge difference between doing a fictional, stylized Asian world and a fictional stylized "African" one. The choice of combining a spear-throwing character with a dark-skined character is just on its face a poor one.
Am I right that a dark skin model like this will now be available for all character classes? Or just the Michael Jackson-dancing, spear-throwing Paragon?
I'm eager to participate in the upcoming Nightfall preview event. I hope my initial impressions about "Koss" are proved wrong.
