Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Humor me then, what would you call it when a player race only has one available sex when it is clear that in regards to in game lore and descriptions, that it has 2?
unisexual playable races

Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Mind you, as I pointed out before, people who make this point seem to understand quite clearly (or claim to do so) what is being directly referenced when people say genderlocking Viera and Hrothgar, and having a discussion about the correct terminology does nothing to address the core complaint. In fact, as the OP directly does, they discuss symantics as an explaination of why "Gender locking isnt happening" and people are complaining about nothing. It is quite literally "Well the in game assets dont exist, so you really cant clal it genderlocking (even though I completely understand that the complaint is people want the male and female varients of a race, and were only getting one, thus the player's choice when it comes to selection of a race is being "Locked" into a single gender.) But its not genderlocking cause....semantics. So just be happy, ok! Stop complaining."
the semantic problem is people who use this term incorrectly trivialize the solution.

the response is frequently "just unlock it", "unlock it already" when it really should be, "we want 2 complete races added this expansion instead of 2 halves". it sounds much more unreasonable to ask for two races to be added to one expansion.

it allows them to be entitled without sounding like it. it allows them to make what would normally be an unreasonable demand sound more reasonable.

maybe some people feel like we're owed two races since Stormblood didn't have one and that's probably a discussion worth having but we rarely if ever talk about it like that because semantics dictates that we just talk about unlocking what's been locked.