More gender locked gear.

[Serilda]

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?

And if the ones I want are the matching ones that were designed for use with that set, and there's no fundamental difference between a man's hands and a woman's, why are we being locked out for no reason? There's no male-only equivalent to these gloves. I will freely admit that gloves aren't the be-all and end-all of my fashion choices, but almost every major patch since 2.2 has added gender-locked items in a ratio which favours players with female characters. The vast majority of these items aren't especially feminine in the slightest, and the community team has repeatedly acknowledged the imbalance and passed our wishes on to the design team. Yet it keeps happening - and in a way which is so ridiculous I'd take it for parody if I didn't know better.

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.

You're entitled to your opinion but I respectfully strongly disagree. We're up to 23 items more for players with female characters, which isn't a huge amount if you consider every item in the game but it's a large amount when you consider we pay the same subscription fees and that all of these items are specifically for glamour, not just arbitrary low level dungeon sets. When the gap keeps growing in one direction with each new batch of glamour items, it doesn't take a great deal of paranoia to read the writing on the wall. Especially when it's just a pair of gloves (two, actually) and female characters effectively have access to both the 'female version' and the 'male version' of the sets. If this was about integrity of design, the female players would have no gloves either and their version of the top would automatically cover the hands.

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.

Because they charge money to change gender (and in cases like mine, a name change would also be needed if I did; I'm not going to). The preferential treatment for female characters began in 2.2, and they keep sending messages implying that it will be addressed - yet it isn't, and in fact they just keep making it worse. If this is an actual policy then it's only fair to communicate it; nobody knows that aesthetic choices made in character creation actually limit your access to the same treatment later on. To you it's not important that we don't get to be excited about as many new glamour sets per patch. Others have a different outlook.

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.

Sorry, are we supposed to be happy about being treated not quite as badly as we could have been?