Can we please get more cool looking outfits for male characters?

[SenorPatty]

A bit of a tangent here, a useful one albeit in trying to understand why SE does the things they do. I always knew the japanese culture favored cuteness but still...

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...al_Events#2013


That's the page for seasonal events. If you start from the bottom and check out each promo artwork...that's right: no males to be found at all. Only somewhere up in the 2015 Valentione event you have guys prominently featured in the artwork (I say prominent not because they're still in the back but you can see them clearly lol).

I've played various mmos and some have at least tried to use both genders at times in their promo artwork for events but I was pretty speechless. Suffice to say I have very little expectancy when it comes to glam fairness in the future. Maybe 4.2 can prove me wrong.

[Lukha]

I will also never not be annoyed that we got the fugliest pants ever for the healer contest winner- I was stoked about the winning design and like the overall aesthetic of the set, but holy crap did guys get shafted hard with the outfit that won the prize.

That was exactly my thought. I was so excited to see those pants, and hopeful they'd be modeled faithfully for males because the Yafaemi tank and Dragoon pants are very similar, and don't have a different male/female model. I've been wanting pants like them that I can wear on my main class for eons, now, but while there are MANY like that in the game, most of them change into plain slacks for male characters, and the other two or three are tank-only gear...I haven't been so disappointed in a gear set since I tried on the Arachne Culottes of Healing...

[Nestama]

A bit of a tangent here, a useful one albeit in trying to understand why SE does the things they do. I always knew the japanese culture favored cuteness but still...

Different story with FFXI. Sometimes they don't even show the playable races (sometimes Moogles, Chocobos or even monsters).

Naturally, my favourites are the ones that include Galka. Even if they may end up as part of the background.

[Riardon]

It is really annoying how they keep ignoring male characters and male glamours overall. They said they will do something about it yet I still see nothing. As patches come and go and time passes I somehow find less and less interesting male focused outfits in game let alone special male NPC outfits in Mog shop. They should really start implementing more male focused glamours in game via crafting. Crafting is a bit useless in this game and glamours items via crafting are left pretty limited. If we can't use crafting to produce high end gear in game then we should be getting glamour sets instead which do not affect gameplay balance.

[Ayer2015]

It is really annoying how they keep ignoring male characters and male glamours overall. They said they will do something about it yet I still see nothing. As patches come and go and time passes I somehow find less and less interesting male focused outfits in game let alone special male NPC outfits in Mog shop. They should really start implementing more male focused glamours in game via crafting. Crafting is a bit useless in this game and glamours items via crafting are left pretty limited. If we can't use crafting to produce high end gear in game then we should be getting glamour sets instead which do not affect gameplay balance.

But if they keep making primarily female character content, they can just fall back on, that's what sells....

[Theodric]

The best thing we can do is continue to be vocal but constructive about the issue. When next we see a relevant Q&A session we should band together and upvote posts relating to the issue to try and get the message across more firmly.

As for female stuff selling better? That has always been a bit of a myth. Multiple players investing in female characters have come forward within this thread and others to state that if it weren't for the lack of male glamours they'd be playing a male character instead.

[jameseoakes]

The best thing we can do is continue to be vocal but constructive about the issue. When next we see a relevant Q&A session we should band together and upvote posts relating to the issue to try and get the message across more firmly.

As for female stuff selling better? That has always been a bit of a myth. Multiple players investing in female characters have come forward within this thread and others to state that if it weren't for the lack of male glamours they'd be playing a male character instead.

So far I've seen 9 people with the Lyse outfit in game, that hardly feels like something that sells so that argument feels a little weak to me

[Nestama]

I honestly think Lyses' outfit should be unisex, anyway :/

[SenorPatty]

Different story with FFXI. Sometimes they don't even show the playable races (sometimes Moogles, Chocobos or even monsters).

Naturally, my favourites are the ones that include Galka. Even if they may end up as part of the background.

That Galka Santa is the best thing ever

[Alleo]

I can understand the fear for the caster winning outfit...the art looks really cool and I kinda fear for the ingame version of it for both sides..because we females often need to look cute or lose the nice pants..its not like all girls wants to wear dresses all day long. >_>

Still remain skeptic if this ever changes especially after reading an interview on reddit with Soken (?) and someone else where they said that Lakshimi looked quite different from her current version because they wanted to make her look more Indian. (Kinda like an Indian goddess) Yet Yoshida came along and said that she was not cute enough thus we got the current version..if not even a snake lady from a beast tribe is allowed to be "not cute" then I really question if we get less cute stuff for females or even more different stuff for the males in the future..

As long as this problem exist, especially for the male characters I will raise my voice d^^b.