Edda's outfit is available now apparently.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

You double the audience who can consume it, therefore, you increase the revenue, especially over time.

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First of all I suspect there are more female avatars in this game than male ones and secondly making female outfits available to the small audience that would like to be able to cross dress takes development resources that would be better spent else where in my opinion. If your concern is that males didn't get an outfit along side this one I can buy the reasoning for your concern but then again I don't believe that is what you'r upset about. You just want to turn this thread into another Males want to be able to Wear Female Outfits thread.

To each their own. I look at the male Garo outfits and it annoys me every one of the female leg pieces is booty shorts.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

First of all I suspect there are more female avatars in this game than male ones and secondly making female outfits available to the small audience that would like to be able to cross dress takes development resources that would be better spent else where in my opinion.

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Second time someone has tried to brush this off in this very thread. Your anecdotal evidence is not fact.

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Originally Posted by Serilda

Not sure there is solid evidence for this. If you look at sources like the official census, the gender splits weren't that dramatic at all: http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...e8ff1bcf34c5ae

If it's become worse since then, well, they've also been treating male characters like inferior customers since then. So it's likely a situation they caused themselves. Players who want the most content are going to be tempted to fantasia or quit when they keep being silently shut down like this. Correlation does not imply causation in every situation.

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And however much people insist on turning this into a 'no crossdressing!' issue, it's not. It's just that it's assumed that it would be easier to adapt an existing design in a game where they keep forcing us to wear skirts and dresses and frills and corsets and flowers anyway than to make something new. If they had made a male-only outfit in the same gothic style with appropriate themed stylings, I think we'd all be too busy celebrating to even notice the forums.

I seriously don't know why people have to witch hunt our motives so aggressively instead of conceding that actually, the current design bias is a lame way to treat customers.

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Originally Posted by Serilda

Furthermore, people were asking for an equivalent item for male characters the whole time. Things requested by players with male characters have a habit of falling on deaf ears, it seems.

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I do agree, for the life of me I don't understand why they couldn't develop an outfit with the similar dark theme and style and call it the Avere version and release that along side the Edda version. That could have been interesting and would have made lots more happy. I'm really starting to think SE doesn't really understand how cash shops work. Taking the fast easy lazy development way isn't always the best way when the end result is alienating half the players.

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Originally Posted by Rakiria

You have the ayyymeric outfit, and people have been asking for the edda one over and over. Do you want to just get that dress on male characters? Because I'm pretty sure then some would complain about feminine clothes for males too, and if you want a redisgn we'd have to wait another year or so, looking at the bunny outfit.

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I highly doubt folk would complain overly much if it was for both genders. :P

Anyway. Not dyeable. Not account-wide. Not worth it.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

That is the single most absurd reasoning for any gender-locked outfit. You know what sells better than any gender-locked outfit? Non-gender-locked outfits. It's amazing, it's like you instantly double the possible revenue or something.

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In this case, SE saves half of its development time/costs for not adding a male equivalent, since it would be a neglectable amount where males would buy it.

The weapons are a different take, since they are quite common thing to see in popular animated series, plus the theme works well with certain outfits.

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Originally Posted by Naunet

I highly doubt folk would complain overly much if it was for both genders. :P

Anyway. Not dyeable. Not account-wide. Not worth it.

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Is it not dyeable? I was going to buy it, but ...i'll pass.

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Originally Posted by RayneLittlewinkle

Is it not dyeable? I was going to buy it, but ...i'll pass.

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Not dyeable, and to the other person who was curious, yes the eye patch is attached to the hat and there is no visor option.

I knew it was going straight to the cash shop, but I still wish there were some way to acquire it in-game like 300 potsherds to purchase it from the vendor.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

So another glamour piece that already existed ingame and only needed an adjustment for all races is sold in the mog station..why not make it a new drop for the higher PotD floors?

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This tends to be the common path for NPC aesthetics. So, at this point I think I'm just going to stop asking for those glamours to be added to the game in general since, as far as I'm concerned, they're never actually made available anyway.