5.2 Crafted Gear: Gender Locked Alterations

[PeppermintBrown]

They're just being true to the contest winner designs. The female design in the artist's submission has a skirt. Cutting it out would be going against the design and defeat the purpose of the contest.

Now it's perfectly fine if you don't like how the female set looks and would prefer the male one. But if you made the female gear look like the male set, you'd conversely have people that prefer the female version wanting it back. And if they gave both genders both versions you'd basically have to sacrifice a gear set to make it happen to allocate the artist resources to make it happen.

Sorry you don't like how it turned out, but there are other sets in the game.

[Reinha]

Now it's perfectly fine if you don't like how the female set looks and would prefer the male one. But if you made the female gear look like the male set, you'd conversely have people that prefer the female version wanting it back. And if they gave both genders both versions you'd basically have to sacrifice a gear set to make it happen to allocate the artist resources to make it happen.

This is really the crux of the matter. A lot of players who play female characters occasionally want to wear a dress or miniskirt. Most players who play male characters don't want to wear those. Just look around in Limsa or some other popular hangout place and it's obvious. The sensible solution is to make the occasional miniskirt or dress for females and something else for males, but still make the majority of all gear unisex. And sometimes they even unlock popular glamours for both genders.

There is no grand conspiracy to offend progressive minded people with gender locks. It's just an efficient way to give people what they actually want to wear.

[Iscah]

Can someone show a pic of what both look like? (tank set on m/f) I'm mobile bound ):

Not showing the female pants here because I don't like them (they're the same short bloomers as all the other sets). The hats are the same for both genders. DRG has similar designs in red.



The only similarity I can see between them is the armour on the left arm, and the gloves and boots.

Having tried on the female gear first, I was fully expecting some kind of ruffled shirt in the same blue.

The female striking top does dye weirdly, I would have liked the cloth parts to be dyeable instead of the corset. It's like a salmon pink color D:, however, I LOVE the general aesthetic of that top. My favourite is probably the aiming one but they are all amazingly well designed.

Lilac purple seems like a closer match to me.

The mage dresses are my favourites of the set, and the male version looks nice too (but I still need to get Sylviel to Lv80 so he can actually wear them!). The tank/dragoon dress is nice too.