Scion purchaseable sets limited by gender? Why?!

[Magis]

The conspiracy theories here...

The reason the scion gear is locked is because they didn't make anything. The NPC wear the scion gear as a full "body" item, like a Chocobo suit. So all they did was make a new item entry and give it's model the one the NPCs use. Since there were no "male" Minfilia models, they didn't bother making a male version.

The only new content was the Lalafell versions.

[Niwashi]

The reason the scion gear is locked is because they didn't make anything. The NPC wear the scion gear as a full "body" item, like a Chocobo suit. So all they did was make a new item entry and give it's model the one the NPCs use. Since there were no "male" Minfilia models, they didn't bother making a male version.

The only new content was the Lalafell versions.

If that was true, they'd be race as well as gender locked. There were five newly modeled versions of each piece, because the original NPC was only one of the six races. If they can adjust them to fit all races, then they can adjust them to fit both genders of all races.

i've been to japan a couple of times only so my knowledge is very limited. although there are cross-dressers in japan (like the bands in visual kei genre), it's still not widely acceptable, so i think, imho, male characters in dresses will not be happening anytime soon.

Don't confuse what real people will wear on the street in the real world with what characters in a fantasy video game might wear. SE has never had any problem with flamboyantly dressed male characters in previous FF games.

[NatSilverguard]

Don't confuse what real people will wear on the street in the real world with what characters in a fantasy video game might wear. SE has never had any problem with flamboyantly dressed male characters in previous FF games.

wtf dude are you blind? my next sentence (that you conveniently left out) is similar ( male CNJ robes) to what you are saying. :|