Quote Originally Posted by Halivel View Post
One friend of mine said once in a discussion about 1.0 and its missing genders that if male Miqo'te weren't a thing he wouldn't play the game (and he actually dropped it in 1.0 but then came back in 2.0 and still plays). So... as much as it could sound weird for you or me or somebody else, there are people for whom this can be critically important, since different people have different priorities. Not like they would do big amount of people, but still. Your point about liking the game overall is at right, actually, it's just that somebody pays more attention to customization options than to other things. I mean, customization is still a content, and I even had games I left because I didn't like their style (yes, they had other issues for me as well, but at this point they couldn't keep my attention even visually).
As ridiculous as this might sound the one thing that outright killed my interest in playing FFXI years ago was the fact that male Mithra were not available. It would have been the same with FFXIV since I noticed they "reused" the races here until I learned that Miqo'te had playable male counterparts. I have no idea what I was missing out on with FFXI, but I don't play female characters and none of the other races really interested me so I didn't touch it. Character customization can be a huge make or break component in games for me.