Bunny outfits for men, not a cryptid!

[Hestzhyen]

Exactly. This is exactly what (SOME) people asked for, removing gender locks on female glamours. And then it comes out and they (the people who did not want this and explicitly asked on the forums for a masculine implementation) cry (are disappointed) that it's not what they asked for. I actually feel bad for Yoshi P and the dev team, because they can't win with this.

Fixed some of that for you.

If we're judging developers winning or losing based on player reaction and feedback, then developers are used to losing. They don't need you to defend their feelings or apologize on behalf of the playerbase.

SE could have communicated their plans and intents much, much better to avoid this situation from the start.

[KaivaC]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but a lot of folks who are upset are forgetting that there is a huge culture difference between the west and east. So while bunny suits for males that are not copy pasted are common sense in the west, it is not the same over in Japan. For one, it's possible the deviation wasn't translated properly to the devs and its likely that they hadn't understood why the western player base wanted make bunny suits. I think a lot of folks are ignoring the cultural difference in their anger.

[yeppers]

I don't see how you can really communicate a glamour, especially a "Male Bunny Outfit". If you can't figure out what that looks like in your head based on in game assets then I don't know what to tell you. So communication doesn't seem to be an issue, I am sure they thought this was a joke for the longest time synonymous with "Detotated wam" and tried to laugh it off. Until it became such an issue with people whining about not having it for male characters.

[Arcari]

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Appreciate SE?! Are you insane?! THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL FORUMS NO APPRECIATION OF SE EVER ALLOWED NEGATIVITY ONLY!!!11!1!shift+1

(I completely agree with you Miste :P)

[KaijinRhada]

Hardly anyone wears the female top either.
Just take the ears and run guys.

This is kind of my feeling right now.

The bunny ears being gender-locked in the first place was asinine (though I had no care to have them). When I saw the whole outfit, I immediately knew it would cause friction. On one hand, yay no gender-lock, on the other hand, I knew people were asking for a male variant in previous threads. Having let this stew somewhere in the back of my mind for a day, I come back with a fresh, but old, perspective: gender-locks need to be taken away, and shouldn't have been a thing on in-game obtainable gear in the first place.

They want different looks on a set of themed gear? Dynamic looks! They've already done that with things like the Shisui sets, and things like DRG AF1, or the AST AF sets.

While it's not what various people wanted, I see this as the following: a step in the right direction, but with a compromise. In the end though, this is my thought after seeing all of this:

Nice that males are finally getting it but there is 0 difference. If this what SE was going to do from the start, then it should have been implemented since day one.

I just have to add that I wouldn't have minded something along the lines of this, but it's been so long, and I think it can be replicated (maybe sans bowtie), I would just run away with the bunny ears and call it a day.

[basketofseals]

Both have models though, just not always 3D. That doesn't mean that they lack models.

With VERY few exceptions chest and pant models are textures that are painted on to the body models. The only exceptions I've seen, which is just like 2 or 3 pieces of gear, were like some protruding octagons or something.

[Anarnee]

LMAO. Welp. You know what. I'm not even mad. Now if they'd do this with the Thav dress >>;

[MistyMew]

LOLOLOLOLOL

[jameseoakes]

This is the first time, as far as I remember, that they have ever changed a female locked glamour to being able to be worn by males.


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They did it at least once before when they released a new version of the spring skirt that was not gender locked (also having looked it up on loadestone they even changed the model slightly)

[BillyKaplan]

If it's really the outfit just unlocked, then we also got our cuffs. The puffy sleeves are part of the shirt on my lady Elezen so this is another piece that we really wanted. The funny thing is that I'd have had basically what I wanted originally (minus the vest thingie) if the Spring Bottoms were not what they are which kind of amuses me.