Well, I emailed this to anet about 3-4 weeks ago, and despite being told how important my message was to them, and how they would read it as soon as they could. I got an automated response that, though it was from Diana made no reference to anything I'd said or was even reassuring me about the right kind of bug. I responded by updating my original report with even more faults I'd found, and subsequently received a message saying it had been closed because I had not replied. GG NCSoft server. Anywho, here are todays pictures..
Jaizhanju - the masculine lady warrior.
Karei - the highly iffeminate monk.
Mao's story is amazing.. so why is 'Kaolai' stood at his shrine? (whoever 'Kaolai' is)
Naku - again, wrong gender
Tenai - wtf?! wrong gender again?!
Many of you will probably not care or consider the lengths of my research rather sad. I however feel a bit injusticed because plainly, arenanet just don't listen.
Tahnnakai Temple and the Gender-Confused Heroes
Haggard
Avarre
I noticed these when I went through there, it could use fixing 
Kinda odd that anet doesn't listen to such a glaring design problem though..
Kinda odd that anet doesn't listen to such a glaring design problem though..
jimmy_logic
Their QA team should get a talking to... -_-
Blind Rage
its arena-net's tribute to michael jackson
Esprit
They came back as ghosts, which is very traumatizing, who would blame them if they had a small case of identity crisis? 
Rathcail
Yeah I noticed those too. It's like at least half of them are screwed up somehow. Probably none of the testers bothered to read those texts, or the ones who made that map.
Bahumhat
If you spent your days as a male/female. When you finally past away, would you change sex if you could? 
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jackie
^_^ That mission sure has some hilarious details
Charqus
Are ya sure they sposed to be same people as in the statues
Silent Coyote
I emailed support about this as well when I first noticed it, kinda funny I guess that it managed to get past QA. Maybe you change gender when you die in Cantha?
Stabber
When you die in Cantha, you are presented with an Arcane Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity. Some choose to wear them. Some don't. Such is life. After death.
Haggard
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Are ya sure they sposed to be same people as in the statues
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If you spent your days as a male/female. When you finally past away, would you change sex if you could?
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More seriously, this was something I noticed as well...
Archon Calran
I think there's a part when your doing the mission where the speach boxes change to a completly different language or just some sort of jibberish...
TheMosesPHD
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I think there's a part when your doing the mission where the speach boxes change to a completly different language or just some sort of jibberish...
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But ya I took pics of all the statues and their descriptions too because often times the manuscript window says she when the statue is of a male, like the necromancer in that pic above. I don't even think it matches up with the ghost mix up. I think sometimes it says one gender in the manuscript and the statue and ghost are the same opposite gender, and sometimes it's both. I mean...how can they screw up that bad?..
I'd say A.Net needs to fix these statues as soon as possible if only just to cover up the quality assurance incompetence. They never take the time to fix things that can be done in like 10 minutes. Like these statue word errors and the classic "DELETE ME" text screw-up in the second isle mission that I reported the first day Factions came out and they still haven't fixed according to a recent thread.
"DELETE ME" is a filler that was supposed to be replaced with the script that adds in the name of whoever the group leader is. Seeing as how they've used that same particular line of code well over 500 times throughout the game why can't they take 1 minute and add it in to the text box in the mission?
kaheiyeh
The ritualist ghost gets replaced by Master Togo if you've finished the game. Visit the explorable area of Tahnnakai Temple if you want to have a look.
Mournblade
Even in Cantha, you have men playing female characters and women playing men.
Zui
Yeah... This should be fixed. If you read the text it's screwed up too.
auntie ying
I have noticed this before...
As I play the Chinese version of GW, I though it was the mistake of the translation team...
but when I saw the screen shot then I know I was wrong...
As I play the Chinese version of GW, I though it was the mistake of the translation team...
but when I saw the screen shot then I know I was wrong...
Loomy
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Their QA team should get a talking to... -_-
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Aarroe of Gilgamesh
really tho, there is nothing congruent anywhere in the plot, so why expect it here? the writers for this chapter should all be fired.
Andi DeMorte
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Or just to see the puzzled looks on the faces of first-timers in the temple when they look at the inscription, then at the ghost, then the inscription, then the ghost, and so on.
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I thought this was a new phenomenon but ya'll are saying it's been there since day 1 though so... A-net produced a very shoddy game. Once again I will say that I am glad that I did not spend moola on the game but it was gifted to me... I do feel bad for the person who bought it for me though because a lot of thought went into it's purchase and it's all for naught. I would rather a quality game every 2 or even 3 years then one that is full of mistakes every year.
~Andi
Stabber
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really tho, there is nothing congruent anywhere in the plot, so why expect it here? the writers for this chapter should all be fired.
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Aarroe of Gilgamesh
my guess is they liked the buzz that the unsolved mystery of gwen created, so they just made as many pieces of the puzzle not fit together as possible this time on purpose. the square peg will fit in the round hole if you hit it hard enough.
Divinus Stella
Well, Jaizhanju was obviously a man trapped in a womans body, due to the absence of hospitals in cantha the sexual reconfiguration couldn't go ahead.
Astraea Zopyros
Maybe Jaizhanju was out getting her hair done, so she sent her faithful servant. We can't all be on duty, all the time! :P
Cowboy Nastyman
perhaps the soul binding process did this to the ghosts hehe
Vermilion Okeanos
The title should have been "Tahnnakai Temple and the Gender-Confused Heroines"...!
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Too bad we don't get to see master togo turning into a young lady, that would have been funny.
Haggard
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Oh come on! The plot ain't so bad! I thought the death of [REDACTED] just before the end was very well foreshadowed and a perfect twist!
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noblepaladin
NevynZeddicus
When I first noticed this, I thought it was kind of funny. I never realized people took this kind of stuff so seriously. Is it some kind of joke? Poor communication among devs? Certainly fixing it is not at the top of my Anet Honey-Do list but unless its meant to be funny, it does show the superiority of Prophecies team over Factions team.
Basically everything said above, but I want to feel important.
Basically everything said above, but I want to feel important.
Nevin
I love how it feels just like the crystal desert.. Not. They could've easily made ghosts of each of the hereos... Lazy bums.
Haggard
Well it's not exactly important, just downright laughable that this mix up ever happened, and I'm just angry at how much they obviously cared for my report on it.
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I love how it feels just like the crystal desert.. Not. They could've easily made ghosts of each of the hereos... Lazy bums.
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I'm betting the whole deal with the ghost of Kaolai and the statue inscription listing his name as Mao is that they changed the hero's name and never bothered to update the inscription. Shame on them either way.
I'm kind of concerned that ANet's game quality is going down the toilet with their "2 new games per year!!" release schedule. Sure, there are 2 development teams, one for each chapter, and one year of development cycle before release, but there are many screwed up things in this chapter that probably wouldn't be there if they tested it more thoroughly as they did in the original game. Missions incompletable due to bugs, certain elite skills not available for weeks, god-awful Elite Mission access (let's only allow 0.01 percent of players to have access each day!) and dozens of bugged quests...the list goes on. Probably would have helped for them to have more than one beta/preview weekend.
Patience
If you pay a visit to Nahpui Quarter you'll see something similar. Check the names of the four celestial beings in the cinematic where you first meet Suun, then check the names on the statues, then check the names of the celestial beings in the mission. You'll also notice Suun's character model changes between the intro and outro cinematics for Nahpui.
It honestly doesn't say much of the game's lore if the developers can't even remember the names of their characters.
It honestly doesn't say much of the game's lore if the developers can't even remember the names of their characters.
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I'm betting the whole deal with the ghost of Kaolai and the statue inscription listing his name as Mao is that they changed the hero's name and never bothered to update the inscription. Shame on them either way.
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Just an example: who killed Shiro, the first time? At least 3 people seem to have been involved, with one person wounding him, 'eventually' leading to his death... But was he not killed pretty much straight after trying to assassinate the emperor? And where did he, as a former city-guard fighting street thugs and then a bodyguard, get the power from to turn a sea to jade and a forest to stone with just 1 death-cry? And this job he has after his death... if it is a job, does he not have a boss? Grenth, for example? And what exactly is he doing in the city, when it is 'under attack'?
I know this is a game for a global audience, with many players who would get bored by a more involved and original story like that of Planescape Torment, Half-Life etc. but there is really no reason for the story/writing to be so sketchy with so many small mistakes. Anet make a great game, but they really should hire some new people to help out their writers. Given the money that goes into making a game like this, you'd expect something top-notch.
Count to Potato
Not even a hard update to make... new artwork thats all
Haggard
Or ticking the other box on the gender tab.