SE thanks for making this event not gender locked

I did find it odd that the 'male' flower crown is better (IE more dyable options) then the female one...

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Originally Posted by reivaxe

(Unless you think I can't count that dudes get 3 flowers compared to the female 5 ... or tell that these flowers are fairly different flowers ...).

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Well this event did it right because players like the female version, duh. Same with Moonfire Happis and Songbird Attire. It's never been about gender locking, just envy.

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Originally Posted by EmoPanther

Yes! I knew this topic would pop up XD! Ooooh, my brother owes me 5$ now.

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Dang, you missed out....Should have bet him $50 XD

Am I missing something here?
This Flower Crown was last Years Reward, and it wasn't genderlocked.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...le_Ladies_Day/

They should follow this example for future events. Less restrictions = more variety and glamour potential.

Honestly I feel like gender locking is just less content. It's up to the devs but more content is good and nothing I'm against unless it's hurt the players.

More options is a win to me. My Hrothgar needs all the headpieces it can get.

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

Am I missing something here?
This Flower Crown was last Years Reward, and it wasn't genderlocked.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...le_Ladies_Day/

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The issue that people are referring to is that it looks different on male and female characters despite not needing to. Well, I guess nothing really needs to, but nonetheless, most gear items for the chest, hands, legs, and feet tend to look different as I'm sure you're familiar with. But helmets and hats are usually identical, save a few crossover/collab items and likely a couple outliers. But for whatever reason, these flower crowns that had no reason to be different were different. There was no issue relating to the shape or models they were being placed on, but they made them different and even the dye channels were changed. People were annoyed.

This event in did a lot of things I like, actually.

• We get to buy the furniture up-front, no currency farming
• A nice quest with some story and familiar faces
• The repeatable quest is based on other content we've completed, and unlike previous events being able to experience this additional dialog isn't left to RNG, we can choose specifically who we want to visit. I love this.
• Two different glam looks, both usable by all races and genders, can be dyed, and correctly flagged for armoire

While the actual holiday itself isn't a personal favorite and doesn't have a fun instanced thing to do like haunted house or hedge maze, I'm a big fan of how the reward acquisition and bonus dialog are set up this time.

So yes a big Thank You, SE from me.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

To a degree, yes.

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No, it's literally just making design changes to make something look more appealing/ nature for a gender.
Like how they recently talked about how they make changes to helms to make them more suited for which ever race you're playing (They used the Edencall Helm of Fending as a example, showing just how much it changes if you're playing a human vs a lala/ elezen or kitty)

The devs actually take gender aesthetics into consideration when making things work for them.

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(I haven't seen the male version of it yet, besides what could be seen on the icon picture, but the flowers didn't look that different.)

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Dudes get completely different flowers and 2 whole less flowers. The dude flowers have narrow petals that show off more of the hair behind the flowers as well as the branch like pin part.
And ya know what? It looks better on them than the default version would without any changes ... which is why they do this kinda stuff.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Well this event did it right because players like the female version, duh. Same with Moonfire Happis and Songbird Attire. It's never been about gender locking, just envy.

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Pretty much what I've been trying to get at. Like the flower crown ...
"Dudes get some extra prema blue flowers on their flower crown and are able to change the color of the pink flowers unlike the female version to make it look more traditionally male looking? WHHHHY?!?!".
Yet having almost the same thing happen here but liking the female version means it is alllll gooooood lol, these forums are a trip.