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

[myahele]

My only main issue with the devs is that they do take time to make make what was male-only glamour into unisex

1. the sailor set (there was already a female equivalent) was original male and was eventually made unisex
2. Setzer was arguably male-only due to showing only males wearing it in the initial preview, but was understandably made unisex.
3. The Thavnarian Bolero was also developed to be male-only and then a few days later they announced they're planning on making available to males

There won't be too many complaints if there are male and female equivalents of glamour sets. I don't understand why the devs don't bother, since it's not like lv.1 glamour gear is released per patch.

[raymon]

anybody else remember the thread that was complaining about the setzer outfit being male only?

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

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

Well, if Minfilia's outfit were unisex...

[AkashiXI]

Well, if Minfilia's outfit were unisex...

The guy on the right totally has the, "Not sure if I'd hit that. " face

[Alahra]

I didn't realize until this thread that the tights on the bunny outfit were black...

Please let them be dyable. I hate the shade of red/pink on the original ones, I can't get them to match anything to my satisfaction!

[Welsper59]

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.



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.



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.



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.

Even in fantasy, RL has an influence on what one creates. That's why I mentioned that. We're talking about fashion here... things that are based upon sources for inspiration. We have MANY fantasy sourced outlets of glamour that are already used... literally. Design concepts of what is male and female do come from RL inspiration though. I mean, in fantasy, they could design it so that everything but genitalia is covered. A complete opposite. Due to RL impact however, they won't do this, and need to pull from what is RL sourced. Having said that, creating things male specific is quite difficult to do. There is SIGNIFICANTLY more to work with on female models than male. There's a multitude of reasons why male models tend to look and dress the same every single time, whereas women tend to have much more dynamic attire to model.

You know though, it'd end up being an unfair numbers advantage in the end with 100% unisex options. I mean, I'd opt for female characters to have the bare chest necklace-only glamour that males have, but uhh... not really an option for this game. And we kinda already have a ton of bikini top glamour for female characters as is. This is also where some of the ideas of making exclusive female gear comes from. My Vin Diesel example was to show that, even in the case of a pro-unisex option, some outfits that are clearly female aimed, just look HORRIBLE on men. I sincerely doubt that the numbers are the source of what people complain about when it comes to lack of male options.

Do you really think people would be content with a sea of terrible outfits for male, but the same outfit matches for female? I don't. It's the quality that people want the most. What's the point of wanting terrible options just to be kept near equal on numbers when you'd (almost) never use them? Sounds petty to me on that end. Argue for quality looks, that's what actually matters. Unisex options are great and all, but most themes just don't work for one gender over the other. In the end, people will complain that there's more focus on female tailored gear, not the fact that they have access to it. When the focus shifts from the numbers game to what they're actually going to get, the complaints will keep continuing. That's what my underlying point is. Numbers don't matter, it's the quality. The issue about that though, as I said, is the inspiration is lacking when it comes to unique male-focused glamour. It's not easy and, just like IRL, male fashion is mostly a continued repeat of itself, meaning there's not much point to waste time with it in the game.

It would certainly be interesting to have all female glamour be male accessible, but like I said earlier, inequality would still exist due to how certain male equips are not socially acceptable on females for a game like this. Making it acceptable would be pretty much an exact replica of existing gear as is, defeating the purpose of what made the male version unique and attractive to use. I don't think there's a single female equip that couldn't be worn by a male character, if it were made unisex, despite odd appearances. Kinda back to square one at that point, right? I'd hope you'd be making the same complaints you do now, if something like that happened... though there are just some things that are impossible to realistically win on.

Edit: I just remembered an example of unisex options allowed but met with my quality over quantity argument and the complaints to follow even if quantity is met. The All Saints' Wake gear this year. Unisex yet is "oddly" met with a lot of hate by (mostly) male characters. Hmm...

[Serilda]

they won't do this, and need to pull from what is RL sourced. Having said that, creating things male specific is quite difficult to do. There is SIGNIFICANTLY more to work with on female models than male. There's a multitude of reasons why male models tend to look and dress the same every single time, whereas women tend to have much more dynamic attire to model.

...are you saying they are favouring female characters because they are running out of ideas for making male-friendly costumes? There is so much male fashion available from the well of human history across the world that we'll never run out of inspiration, and that's only if they need to use real life clothing as a base in the first place. This is Square-Enix. They've made a fortune over the years coming up with appealing outfits for guys.

it'd end up being an unfair numbers advantage in the end with 100% unisex options. I mean, I'd opt for female characters to have the bare chest necklace-only glamour that males have, but uhh... not really an option for this game. And we kinda already have a ton of bikini top glamour for female characters as is.

If they want to do even more work and open up everything to both genders, that's great, but things like the necklace-only male glamours already have direct female-only equivalents with bikini tops (with arbitrarily different names) so they could just combine them into single items. I'm personally advocating that they equalise the numbers of items available so we each have the same number of equippables, nothing more. That would be fair.

This is also where some of the ideas of making exclusive female gear comes from. My Vin Diesel example was to show that, even in the case of a pro-unisex option, some outfits that are clearly female aimed, just look HORRIBLE on men.

That's your personal opinion. You believe that people would recoil from Vin Diesel in a bunny suit, yet it's a fact that the Chippendales are known across the world. What you think would look 'horrible' on men might be someone else's favourite look; why is your opinion more important than ours?

Do you really think people would be content with a sea of terrible outfits for male, but the same outfit matches for female? I don't. It's the quality that people want the most. What's the point of wanting terrible options just to be kept near equal on numbers when you'd (almost) never use them? Sounds petty to me on that end. Argue for quality looks, that's what actually matters. Unisex options are great and all, but most themes just don't work for one gender over the other.

I'd be more content than I am seeing the female characters getting more and more exclusive goodies in every big patch while we sit around getting told that we're not socially acceptable human beings for wanting to dress our characters a certain way, that's for sure. You're right that it would be a shame to get complete trash, but we've done the work and that's not what we're missing out on; the Thavnairian bustier and bunny sets are two of the most popular outfits in the entire game and easily adaptable into nice pieces for men with minimal graphics work. We do pay the same subscription fees as people with female characters, therefore we have the right to complain when we're being short changed. Repeatedly.

I don't think there's a single female equip that couldn't be worn by a male character, if it were made unisex, despite odd appearances.

Cool, let's aim for that, then?

Edit: I just remembered an example of unisex options allowed but met with my quality over quantity argument and the complaints to follow even if quantity is met. The All Saints' Wake gear this year. Unisex yet is "oddly" met with a lot of hate by (mostly) male characters. Hmm...

It's hated because it's not a complete item like the girls' set and it's yet another example of how little the current design team blatantly favours female characters, at a time when we're getting reminders all too frequently. Set aside from the other issues I quite like the boots, gloves, hat and broom, and I love the overall theme of the event. Please don't attempt to derail this thread by implying that things could have been worse than what we got.

[SchalaZeal]

It would certainly be interesting to have all female glamour be male accessible, but like I said earlier, inequality would still exist due to how certain male equips are not socially acceptable on females for a game like this.

Except the only male-only glamours that are not female accessible...have female-only counterparts that are not male accessible. And they tend to be mainly swimsuits.

My Vin Diesel example was to show that, even in the case of a pro-unisex option, some outfits that are clearly female aimed, just look HORRIBLE on men. I sincerely doubt that the numbers are the source of what people complain about when it comes to lack of male options.

And this is subjective. I think Katie Perry looks tacky and weird, not great. Doesn't look better than on Vin Diesel.

[Noxifer]

Not the first I see of the 80/20 ratio.

Not the first time I've seen it either, but the majority of those statements tend to be of the "but everyone knows this" quality or based on data from ten years ago (or older), instead of backing it up with non-outdated surveys. ^^; Which is why I tend to not always take them seriously.

80/20 might have softened with more casual-friendly games, it used to only count hardcore players. Now you got game-jumpers who might not play the game for long, who unsub and go elsewhere, etc. My brother plays a ton of other games at the same time (so he's a jumper). I can barely play one console game, even if I have the time. Just don't see myself investing in multiple MMOs at once.

Well, considering FFXIV is a very casual-friendly game... that doesn't really argue for stubbornly maintaining the whole 80/20 ratio, even if it holds true for some games even today. =)

anybody else remember the thread that was complaining about the setzer outfit being male only?

And that's the only case where I agreed, actually. It's one thing to have gender-locked outfits when they are comparable. An outfit based on a previous FF character does not compare to a sexy bunny suit. If it had been, say Setzer vs the FF10-2 Lady Luck outfit, or Setzer vs Edea outfit, then I don't think nearly as many had agreed with that thread. I know I wouldn't have, because the two outfits would then have been 'equal' in fan value -- no, I'm not arguing popularity of the original games, I'm merely saying that both would then have been "based off of a previous FF character".

A traditional masculine version of the bunny suit? Not exactly plausible. A testosterone driven Thavnairian Bustier set? Yeah, that'll go over well with them. In order to fit the "masculine" appeal, massive changes need to be made to sets like that. If you change those things a lot, they lose their identity. They might as well be separate items, just as the Thavnairian glamour equips have two different sets (the female-only and the unisex), which then raises the question of how well this drastically altered item also looks on a female character... back to square one of that crowd complaining that there's more female than male outfits.

Traditional masculine bunny suit? Have you even listened to the people talking about Chippendale? Plenty of masculine sexuality in that package, no?

Anyway... Why would we need a testosterone-driven Thavnairian Bustier set? There already is one masculine outfit -- the Bolero set. Yes, it's unisex, but that doesn't change that it's the masculine version of the Bustier set. What's wrong with having two unisex sets, one with feminine energy and one with masculine? Both of course slightly different on male and female bodies, to allow chestlessness on boys and extra chest coverings on girls (for example). That way the boys and girls who want to go for the tougher look can choose the masculine set, and the boys and girls who want to go for the softer look can choose the feminine set. And everyone apart from those who would try to control other people's choices would be happy, right?

[SchalaZeal]

That way the boys and girls who want to go for the tougher look can choose the masculine set, and the boys and girls who want to go for the softer look can choose the feminine set. And everyone apart from those who would try to control other people's choices would be happy, right?

Now if it only were that easy in the real world, without being called broken or a freak or made to be a pariah. It would all be personal choice, not "following what the instructions booklet says". You know, freedom.