So its 0-2 in the male female glamour department, yay?

[Serilda]

What pants are those?

Haha, they're the old BLM PVP pants (Wolfliege Brais/Wolfseye Brais).

[Iromi]

Haha, they're the old BLM PVP pants (Wolfliege Brais/Wolfseye Brais).

Ohh! Thank you..hehe I love them!

[raymon]

i would want to see what would happen if SE made one male exclusive gear and one unisex.

[Samcaesar]

People seriously need to start pushing for the dev team to just make everything unisex. I groaned when I saw the minfilia outfit was locked to girls only, because I know this topic would come up and we'd see the same old arguments that just don't make any sense. We're in a game where dudes have the loincloth, coliseum set, a varied to things that look cloth to womens underwear, dresses, and skirts, if you have something about dudes look feminine or crossdressing, then this game isn't the one for you. Making the sets unisex across the board is really the only option (And ideally keep the two versions are similar as possible). I'd rather have everything be open to everyone rather than be cut off from who knows how many cool and tough looking "guys only" sets or have dude PCs kept from wearing the more pretty and elegant "girls only" outfits.

[Colorful]

i would want to see what would happen if SE made one male exclusive gear and one unisex.

I'd assume there would be a rather large outrage on the Japanese forums, and then there will be a thread here bickering back and forth between the same people here.

Fairly normal person: "Could we get a unisex version?"
Fairly normal person 2: "Nice, a male exclusive outfit."
Angry person: "Make that outfit unisex SE or I WILL UNSUB!!!!111"
Smug person: "How the tables have turned..."
Tumblr extremists : "SE IS SEXIST, SEXIST I SAY"

[Serilda]

There is a similar thread on the Japanese side of the forums so at least some of the community would be happy. Though I completely agree that releasing the restrictions for everyone is a better solution than angering the people with female characters who don't realise there's such an imbalance.

Some tidbits from today's Duty Commenced live stream (the community team showed the new GS outfit from the Live Letter, so I felt it couldn't hurt to ask about it).

Community Team: On the forums we previously mentioned the bunny ears would be unisex. I do not know if this has changed after that announcement.
Me: Could you relay the fact that players with male characters really really want the same number of equippables as those with female ones to the devs, please? We're 16 down already. Would be ace to have some recognition that there's an issue there.
Community Team: We heard you + others on the forums and let the dev. team know.

[Eloah]

Wow this this thread has really blown up. Good to see that a majority of people agree with this topic. And good to hearbthat there is a similar thread in on the Japamese forums too.

[Ayuhra]

We need a male only Kuja's attire >:3 !

Yes. I want this.

[Roegadyn_Bear]

We need a male only Kuja's attire >:3 !

I'm going to be honest... I didn't know Kuja was a male until very late in the game.

[Ulfhade]

While the numbers are clearly not "fair", I'm still at a loss as far as what could really be made to equalize the numbers. Male specific outfits aren't exactly abundant in relation to female specific outfits IRL, as far as sources go.

While male numbers may not equal female numbers in real life, this is a game and not real life. So when they design outfits, they can choose to focus more on females, more on males, or equally on both. What they have done so far is focus more of female exclusive outfits. In the case of the Thavnarian sets: One was female focused, one male focused, but they made the first female specific and the second female equippable, instead of male specific. So the effort was there on both outfits, but one was locked to a gender. That is what I'm saying with numbers.

I guess since you're going based on numbers, you'd be happy if bucket armors were male exclusive, that sort of thing?

That is not remotely what I am saying. I'm saying that when they put out new outfits, that they can either be equipped by both genders (altered or not), or have one for each gender.

You may not care about most outfits, or the style of them, but you have the options. Males do not compared to the females, and that is what I'm talking about. Style is subjective, what you may think looks terrible someone else may love. Again, its not about what is male specific in look, but what male characters can equip. I don't care what looks masculine or feminine. I want to be able to wear it.

I mean, imagine someone like Vin Diesel in something like the bunny outfit or something Katy Perry would wear. Humorous, but not exactly appeasing to the eyes for nearly everyone, including much of the gay community.

There are plenty of current outfits that people don't like already in the game. Some people hate tanks that wear swimsuit gear. There are people who think that skimpy cloths on both male and female characters look bad. The outfits still exist in the game, and its a fact of life that someone will have an outfit that someone else doesn't like.

Besides that, the concept of "playing barbie", as some folks would say, isn't exactly fun to a lot of male gamers. Mind you, that's an extremely ignorant outlook for many obvious reasons, but it's still one that many (dominantly) male gamers stick to when it comes to attire, but not how the customization of the character model looks, hypocritically.

But there is a large enough outcry that people are still talking about it and complaining about the lack of fair options. This is only one of the many threads that have been made over the past few weeks. So there is an interest in having different options.

Again, I agree that making the currently gender locked options unisex would be the best in my opinion, what I'm more upset about is the fact that there is a very obvious favoritism that I want to change.