More gender locked gear.

[Aldora]

Shouldn't we get to decide that?

Aren’t we already? I mean, we get to decide how we want to dress ourselves by using the Glamour system. So, if you want to wear gloves with that set, why wouldn’t you simply wear the ones you’d like with that set?

That doesn’t change the fact that in this case, the design of the male version of the Expeditioner's Set did not include any gloves. However, you are free to wear gloves if you want to. It’s not that the game doesn’t have a small assortment of gloves to choose from.

The 'no glove' effect is accessible by players with female characters too, yet we only have one option and two fewer glamour items to add to the huge backlog of female-biased glamour options already in the game.

I’m sorry, that’s an opinion i don’t share.

I’ve read a few of your posts where you point out that female characters have more options to choose from and i don’t deny that. What i don’t share is the opinion that there is a “huge backlog of female-biased glamour options”. I know you will not agree with me on this, which is fine, but when looking at the amount of clothing options the game has, the amount of “female-biased glamour options” aren’t as huge as you make them to be.

But, like i said. That’s my opinion.

I maintain that there should be a warning on character creation that male characters will be much more limited with glamour later in the game so that new players aren't under the false impression that the design team are going to be treating them fairly.

Why should there be a warning on the character creation that male characters will be limited on the glamour items? I’m fairly sure that most of the male characters in the game don’t really care much about gender specific clothing. They go through the list of items they can wear and pick what they think fits their character most.

There will always be gender specific gear. What Zhexos said back then, was that they team would introduce more male specific gear to the game. Here you have a Expeditioner's Set, which has a version which is exclusive for each gender.

However, it’s still up to the FFXIV team how they will design each individual set. It’s up to the players how they would be using the set, by mixing and matching their outfit based on the available glamours.

The item you want to glamour isn’t available? There’s no harm in requesting it. But, requesting that they need to add a warning to the character creation that either gender is “limited in their options” is (pardon my english) a bit sad.