For the 129392831203123801 time. STOP IT with the genderlocked gear.

[Chiramu]

Hairstyles at least are becoming more unisex now though , love the Cinque-male varient ^^ and I love the fact that girls can get Nine and Jack hairstyles too .

A step in the right direction ^^.

[Welsper59]

So nobody should ever give any sort of advice, suggestions, or feedback about anything related to the game? If that were the case, these forums wouldn't exist.

Of course it's SE's game and they can do whatever they like with it. Nobody's suggested otherwise. But that doesn't mean that a feedback-less vacuum would be the best way for them to do so.

I beg to differ with the bold underlined part. Offering feedback is generally within the grounds of a one-and-done sort of thing. The reason I say that is because it is then left up to the people in charge to determine if that's something they want/have to follow. It's fine to keep leaving the same feedback, but that's where a large part of the problem is. People are taking the choices for creative freedom as some form of personal offense because the devs didn't take feedback that they made as a form of passive demand, i.e. "it must be done from here on or I'll get mad."

That's when a lot of the people on these threads tend to throw around the bigot card to anyone who says that it's not a big deal in hopes that the fear and social stigma behind it will rally people to their personal word and castrate anyone who doesn't think like they do. In fact, the basis for the whole thing is the feeling of oppression for not being able to get what others have just because they chose to be male/female/etc. I'm willing to bet this was never the devs intent, but people still ended up feeling that way. Here's the kicker though: these same people generally use the fear card to get people to change the ways that others look at it to get what they want. It's that same form of oppression, except 100% intentional because people are idiots about what they view is right as they force it down the throats of others. You promote fear and want for sacrifice of creative freedoms over something as petty as glamour? There's a bigger problem at play here and it's not coming from the devs. It has always been this way and it will never change because no one wants to accept the negatives behind their actions or they just don't understand the big picture.

Please keep in mind how this all started to gain headway. It wasn't because sex/gender locks prevented people from playing the game (dungeons, crafting, interactions, etc). It was because some folks wanted bunny ears for male characters. Repeat that to yourself a few times until it sinks in. We're throwing real life issues that deal with actually harmful forms of oppression, harm, and death into a game over bunny ears... real stand up community this is.

[WinterLuna]

Support for the millionth time. I really want Snow's coat too. >.>

[Mug]

Greetings,



Currently there are many pieces of male equipment that can be altered to be worn by the female characters, but certain equipment specific to females cannot be adjusted for males due to the differences in the character models.

However, there is female-specific gear (such as the head and hand equipment) that can be modified to fit with male character models, so we'll consider those requests based on the feedback we've been receiving. Also, we plan on creating more exciting male-specific equipment in the future to help the balance of gender-specific gear.

This was posted 10 months ago. Disregarding event gear, I have yet to see this "exciting male-specific equipment" they're talking about.

[Noxifer]

This was posted 10 months ago. Disregarding event gear, I have yet to see this "exciting male-specific equipment" they're talking about.

Well, in fairness, 3.1 had both female-only and male-only (even if they had the new bunny set and nothing to help even out the previous imbalance). And 3.2 had a good balance apart from those gloves. So... in a way, I guess that's what they meant. But I'd still like for them to balance out previous female/unisex combos. Whether they'd do that through making them unisex/unisex or by adding another male-only based on the same theme... I'd be fine with either, really.

[Mug]

Well, in fairness, 3.1 had both female-only and male-only (even if they had the new bunny set and nothing to help even out the previous imbalance). And 3.2 had a good balance apart from those gloves. So... in a way, I guess that's what they meant. But I'd still like for them to balance out previous female/unisex combos. Whether they'd do that through making them unisex/unisex or by adding another male-only based on the same theme... I'd be fine with either, really.

I checked the gear for this patch on XIVDB, and you're right. From what I can see, it's pretty much 50/50 this time around, so it's definitely not as bad as I thought.

[RaineAmorie]

For the 129392831203123801 time. Stop it with this thread.

[TheUltimateSeph]

@Noxifer yeah sorry. I should have clarified. I don't agree. At all. Gender politics making their way into a game just makes me sick. I get to hear enough of that kind of crap IRL

[FallenArisen0990]

This was posted 10 months ago. Disregarding event gear, I have yet to see this "exciting male-specific equipment" they're talking about.

They did, it was the Scion gear.

[Lukha]

They did, it was the Scion gear.

Undyable, gender-locked, slight edits of items that were mostly already obtainable in-game in dyable, unisex form. The only Scion with a unique outfit was Mifillia, whose glamour set was released as, you guessed it, female-only. That's not even getting into their beyond lame attempt to even the male/female glamour imbalance by splitting the male Scion outfits into more pieces and the female into fewer, a solution that fixed nothing and made no one happy.

There was nothing exciting about that gear, unless your idea of excitement is being give new things to be irritated about.