Gender/Racial Locking in 2019

[Theodric]

There's an interesting correlation to be found in threads such as this. Exceptions exist but if you look at the lodestone profiles of the posters overly concerned with social issues, you'll often find that they're not hugely invested in the game itself and are primarily concerned with glamour.

[OcieKo]

Imagine a world, where any person with a computer could simply put in the hundreds of man-hours necessary to learn to do 3D modeling and create whatever view they want, and instead of whining that someone else do it for free or detract from other tasks they are paid to do to cater to them, they just put in the hundreds to thousands of man hours themselves and modded it in.

Oh wait... sorry past 30-50 years... we could already do that... my bad.

If you want your (insert race/clan/sex here) to wear (insert item(s) here) then go learn how to do it yourself, mod it in, and Voila... got exactly what you want at no cost to anyone! Since according to you people's time and effort are worth nothing so might as well spend your own worthless currency. Win for everyone!

On a more serious note, to prevent the need for excessive redesigning in a T rated game's gear, you would nearly have to eliminate most revealing and form fitting gear. Since T/PEGI-13 rating restrictions and international laws pertaining to such content being so varied would eliminate it. They could also remove the height/bust sliders to DRASTICALLY reduce the workload, bust slider is partially done already by effectively using value ranges assigned to a chunk of presets for most gear. The primary ways to maintain the patch cycle and give out more gear alterations would be reducing the amount of alterations needed for each piece of gear, in which case reducing the race count and height options would go a long way. I'd rather have more options for my character themselves than for their equipment.

There's better arguments for removing or no longer making non-combat practical equipment, since our player characters are primarily posited as adventurers who make a living in perilous conditions. A dress can be many things, but combat practical they are generally not.

[Hazama999]

Here I thought they had a "catch-all" system of making clothes/gear fit the body type (male or female), so I was surprised to find out that they'd have to manually do it for a select set of items.

[rachcouture]

There's an interesting correlation to be found in threads such as this. Exceptions exist but if you look at the lodestone profiles of the posters overly concerned with social issues, you'll often find that they're not hugely invested in the game itself and are primarily concerned with glamour.

Does that really matter if they're here and paying a subscription? I mean you need one to even post on the forums.

[zeylos]

While I would like to see no more gender locked gear, I think that asking for both male viera/female hrotgar AND no mroe gender locked gear is way too much for the devs to take in, and I'd rather have male viera 10000 times over a roe in high heels, so while I would like it, I will not specifically ask for it

[Veis_Alveare]

Imagine a world, where any person with a computer could simply put in the hundreds of man-hours necessary to learn to do 3D modeling and create whatever view they want, and instead of whining that someone else do it for free or detract from other tasks they are paid to do to cater to them, they just put in the hundreds to thousands of man hours themselves and modded it in.

....

#learntocode?

I like it.

[whiskeybravo]

simply put in the hundreds of man-hours necessary

Careful now, we have to watch our gender assignments. Someone might take offense to the term "man" hours.

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

Man i'm glad square is a japanese company, lol

why Japan has really been submissive to everything since they lost their flame. honestly hard to respect them submit to dumb guidelines and social standards. They more about ppl pleasers now hints y we get non stop crossovers deals with other games and companys if they focused on the ffxiv part and not cross overs things like this could be done so much easier.

[Theodric]

Does that really matter if they're here and paying a subscription? I mean you need one to even post on the forums.

It matters. The resources available to the development team are already very strained and can be better spent satisfying those who do not accuse the developers of discrimination whenever something does not go their way.

[rachcouture]

It matters. The resources available to the development team are already very strained and can be better spent satisfying those who do not accuse the developers of discrimination whenever something does not go their way.

OP didn't say anything about discrimination; they asked for more options while pointing out some existing examples (male characters can already wear thongs as previously mentioned), something that makes everyone happy. Doesn't mean that it'll necessarily happen, but there's no harm in asking, either, unless someone is going to be rude about it (and they weren't in this case; it was other people that needlessly threw a fit.)

You're missing the point, anyway; if someone pays for a service, then their opinion, even if it's perhaps inane to some, is worth voicing when respectful.