Men in Dresses

[Shioban]

Holy crap this thread has gotten nuts, 17 pages in a few hours.

Social Justic Warriors in full defence mode.

The answer really is simple.

It's technically possible, but there are other considerations to take into account.
In the end it's the developers choice.

WoW already added dresses, and that's one of the biggest MMOs in the industry, and has been for years. I heard no uproar about them making males able to wear dresses, like, none.

It wasn't a deep thought of "Yes...yes...we're breaking the boundaries of gender identity and stereotyping here."
More likely than not it was "lol, I put the dress texture on the male models" "LOL, PUT IT IN THE FINAL BUILD".

You didn't hear an uproar because there wouldn't be one. It's not something so radical that people would be rioting in the streets.
As I've said before "Mountains out of Molehills" here, people are taking this as TOO big a thing from what people have said in this thread so far.

Not to mention reeling this out into out of context and un-related gargon. (IE, Phobias/Social-Nuances/Opinions/Stereotypes)

The only reason I can see for the developers avoiding it is because they'll simply think "Oh, but men don't wear dresses like that." and then move onto the next thing.
It really is as simple as that, not "What gender specific boundaries and limitations are we creating here by limiting players to gender specific clothing?"

I could be wrong, but the evidence so far suggests otherwise. For a very busy development team considerations like these don't seem to be a big priority.

But who knows, maybe in the future i'll get to wear a samba-dress and do cartwheels wearing a fruit-hat on Christmas Eve down the streets of Ishguard.
Only time will tell.

I gotta say that this thread restores some of my faith in gamers. Not all of you are backwoods bigots and for that working in this industry seems a tiny bit less bleak. And for that I'm very grateful

Keep up that attitude and I'm sure the future will be brighter to those to whom this thread matters the most.

As a developer these sort of things just don't come up in the planning stages often, I've never encountered it much as a huge complaint or consideration.
I think "neglecting" to add an addition so that men wear a Boudice Corset dress isn't exactly a "Bleak Mark" on the history of video games development.

Not everyone here is Bigoted just because they don't share the same opinion as you. Not every single person who disagreed in this thread did so out of malicious hatred, it's just something they'd rather not have added to this game, specifically.

NOTHING is stopping you from wearing a dress in real life, no-one is telling you "Men can't wear dresses".
What some people are saying, is that in terms of this particular video games development, it's very unlikely.

NOT that it's never going to happen, just that it's (to re-emphasise) very unlikely.

Technically it's possible, it'll just require a lot of extra work to re-mesh, re-toplogise, re-texture, re-bake, re-rig/weight and test, so if they haven't made a model for it now it'll only be in future content you'll be seeing something like this. The FFXIV development team aren't fond of going back and adjusting finalised content.

We'll find out when and if there's a response to the thread in the future.