5.2 Crafted Gear: Gender Locked Alterations

[Reinha]

The ideal solution is to let us wear both so everyone is happy, they should have done that with the valentines outfit.

This is absolutely the correct reply on the topic. Its all about CHOICE.

Just like they did with 2B coffers. Oh wait, there is no "both", it's just one outfit for everyone with no choice.

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

[Duskane]

Just like they did with 2B coffers. Oh wait, there is no "both", it's just one outfit for everyone with no choice.

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

what timing

[Reinha]

Are you implying that if they remove gender locking from gear, there will be less overall gear to choose from?

Yes. There is no trend of creating two unisex outfits (feminine and masculine) of the same theme and releasing them at the same time. It's ludicrous to think they would make two versions of the same crafted piece the OP wants.

valentines eve;- .. Oh wait, thats gender locked and HAD two seperate outfits so that doesnt support your argument because it came after the single outfit.

It does support my argument. You get two genderlocked outfits or one unisex. Pick one.

Whats hilarious is, even in my world of free choice for everyone - You can STILL wear whatever you want on your character. You dont have to wear anything you dont want to. Thats the wonderful thing about choice.

And no one has to wear genderlocked items they don't like.

what timing

Modifications to old outfits doesn't detract from my point. At the time of their release they didn't have time to make both outfits wearable by both genders, and so far that continues to be true.

[reivaxe]

what timing

No one is against them having some interns or w/e go back and retro fit old gendered gear to the other gender months and months and months later.
But asking them to do that on release is just silly. It IS asking them to do twice the work.

So yeah, I want the Shadow Team to go and do this in the back ground when they can. It's fine to have gendered gear and it's great to have that unlocked in a way that doesn't mess up the current patch cycles.

[Early_Lily]

Just like they did with 2B coffers. Oh wait, there is no "both", it's just one outfit for everyone with no choice.

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

Are you implying that if they remove gender locking from gear, there will be less overall gear to choose from?
And your basis for this argument is the outfit that drops from a raid, which is based on a female protag so of course there is only one option. A better argument would be the valentines eve;- .. Oh wait, thats gender locked and HAD two seperate outfits so that doesnt support your argument because it came after the single outfit.

Whats hilarious is, even in my world of free choice for everyone - You can STILL wear whatever you want on your character. You dont have to wear anything you dont want to. Thats the wonderful thing about choice.

[3c-33]

Yes. There is no trend of creating two unisex outfits (feminine and masculine) of the same theme and releasing them at the same time. It's ludicrous to think they would make two versions of the same crafted piece the OP wants.

How does this mean there's less gear to choose from? You have no choice if it's gender locked and if there's only one it still means there's less to choose from as opposed to making two variants. You can't say that genderlocking things gives there more gear to choose from when you have to fantasia for it, most people are not going to fantasia over a single glamour

I prefer gender locking. At least that way an outfit won't look ridiculous on my character.

You're also not forced to wear the unisex item you don't like. I don't really know why this is a prevalent thing people say anyway because, taking the valentines outfit for example, it looks perfectly normal and good for women to wear suits, and then same can be said about men in dresses. Imo it depends on what your character looks like. If you have like a tall edgy bearded guy then yeah the outfit won't look good on them but you can easily make a "pretty boy" in this game that would fit in it. The stigma that comes from the idea that there must be a dress code for men and women otherwise they look bad is kinda uncalled for if you ask me, I believe you can make anyone look good in a certain style it you try for it. It only looks "weird" because you're not used to it or the person doesn't match the aesthetic anyway. It's not the gender that's the problem.

Job design in this game is currently in the gutter when it's arguably one if the core attractions of the game, everyone has to put up with playing at least one job if they want to access just about all of the game's content, if that's the case why is this focal point of the game in such a poor state? Literally where are all these "limited resources" going to anyway if not that? Is everything supposed to be half assed as they focus on 20 different things at once? They can't fix viera/Hrothgar, they can't fix jobs, or blue mage, the list goes on. And maybe when the fishing boat comes out it'll turn out to be bad and people complain about that and then other people say "they're working on other things too much to pay attention to that" and it never ends. If they're going to do literally anything they could at least put the full effort into one thing at a time instead of spreading themselves thin with everything. I'd rather have good job design or good glamour diversity, one or the other, but we get neither instead

Can we also keep in mind the amount of time they spent fixing the ugly 2b legs? Because people had an uproar over it? Over an ASS? So the priorities there are fine but this isn't?