Cat Girl from the Halloween Event

[SlyTribal]

It would be great if they stopped gender locking amazing things!

You still have to remember the conformity of Japan. While they accept homosexuality and crossdressing, they still are not so open with it most of the time, and in most media for them, it is used as humour. Adding the same-sex marriage was a huge thing for them to do, something they weren't even willing to do in FFXI. They also added openly homosexual characters, another big step up. However, allowing male characters to equip female-only things in MMOs is something that they aren't willing to breach just yet, for PCs at least. This pose would be another thing they most likely would not accept, at least for a few more years, when it becomes even more acceptable to be open with it.

[Theodric]

You still have to remember the conformity of Japan. While they accept homosexuality and crossdressing, they still are not so open with it most of the time, and in most media for them, it is used as humour. Adding the same-sex marriage was a huge thing for them to do, something they weren't even willing to do in FFXI. They also added openly homosexual characters, another big step up. However, allowing male characters to equip female-only things in MMOs is something that they aren't willing to breach just yet, for PCs at least. This pose would be another thing they most likely would not accept, at least for a few more years, when it becomes even more acceptable to be open with it.

I'd rather see them spend time and effort developing gender locked stuff for men instead of making gear and emotes intended for female characters available to men. Because then we don't get much - if any - new exclusive gear sets/emotes for male characters.

[Gilraen]

You still have to remember the conformity of Japan.

I'd rather see them spend time and effort developing gender locked stuff for men instead of making gear and emotes intended for female characters available to men.

...it's not just in Japan SlyTribal...

[SlyTribal]

...it's not just in Japan SlyTribal...

I know, but the game is Japanese made/focused

[Serilda]

I know, but the game is Japanese made/focused

We've been over this in detail in the dedicated threads about wanting male characters to have the same treatment as female ones. We're actually losing out on a lot more than just the handful of locked dresses; the 'female only' label is liberally used on items such as shoes and hats which are gender-locked for no reason with no male equivalent. Even setting aside the sexiness of this particular pose, there's a real risk that it would be yet another case where the female characters get something new and the males get... nothing.

(Also, the Japanese side of the forums has a similar bunch of people complaining that guys are being treated unfairly, with far less infighting, so it's not entirely a cultural issue.)