Quote Originally Posted by zeylos View Post
If ffXIV ever becomes main-stream, which for various reason I higly doubt, they must ungenderlock the races if they dont wanna face 50 new articles per day talking about how digustingly sexist 'they are' (imo, they arent at all, but thats basically what all news reportes would put on statements. I dont think that this decisions neither the devs are sexist by any means, wanna make that clear)
I find this post strange because a large amount of articles didn't mention anything about sexism. It seemed more like a very angry minority of people, large amount of which were localized to twitter. A large majority of articles seemed to just be reporting on the news released from the fanfestival/interviews with Yoshida.

I would also say FF XIV has reached a certain level of mainstream appeal, maybe not the mass market appeal of WoW in it's hayday but it's certainly not a no name barely recognized MMO. The rest of your post just seems rather incendiary in general, while I disagree with using the term "vocal minority" as I feel it devalues an argument/group without really addressing that argument or groups debate. I do think this is still a very vocal minority who deeply care or would want the missing genders. Even if this is the most liked thread on the forum, these forums themselves are most likely a very very small part of the game's community as a whole.

I of course don't think this means they should be passed over and while I'd hope for them to be in development I don't think we'll get any definitive answer for some time. I don't think Rushing the dev team to answer when it's obvious they thought and discussed this issue at length before the release of the races is a very good or constructive tone to have as well.

This is just my personal opinion of course and I mean no offense by it.