Talk:Mountain Vacation Update/@comment-32738051-20160310050829

I'm with you, Foss, about the avatars. I'm female myself but several of my friends are guys and I can't help wondering how they feel about these avatars. G5 and MyTona should give people a gender choice in these avatars as well.

Does anyone here ever play games on Pogo.com? I ask because Avatars there are called Minis. Players play games to get tokens, which can be used to buy things in the Mini Mall to accessorize their Mini (no joke!)...everything from different facial types to hairstyles to outfits/costumes/separates to pets to family to goodies to backgrounds. Those who wish to spend real money to buy gems have the ability to buy the many available animated accessories. There are even holiday themes and they add to the options all the time as well bring oldies but goodies out of storage for a limited time periodically. Genders as well as facial expressions, hair color and skin tone are free options everyone gets. The possibilities are limitless for a player to express themselves through their avatar, even with the free accounts and they hold regular Mini creativity contests. I currently have almost 700 items in my personal wardrobe (My Items) myself and have created minis for every holiday and season of the year.

Not that we could ever get anything like that with SSHM...I shudder to think of all the glitches that would occur if G5 and MyTona tried. But one would think if Pogo can have a Mini Mall with such diversity and expressionism, there really should be better options in SSHM. Just saying.