Quote Originally Posted by Mavrias View Post
I stand corrected, although I will point out, that that's a scene where the gender neutral pronoun "they" would fit quite nicely. For the next MMO, perhaps.
Just off the top of my head from last night. One example.

https://youtu.be/xHdQgaBKIKg?t=1114


Quote Originally Posted by reiichi View Post
Yeah, in the handful of situations where a voice line DOES actually refer to the player character's gender, we do have an issue there. But there's only a handful of them, and I think this is something that could be handle by letting the player have a fallback to one of the currently implemented choices (male or female pronouns). It's the sort of choice that SE could improve upon going forwards by either avoiding gendered phrases for the player (ex, "a person of your stature" instead of "a woman of your stature" or "a man of your stature"). And that saves them a line of recording.

There isn't really a perfect way to handle the already-recorded things because like plenty of other features that were tacked onto FFXIV, it wasn't a design decision from the start and there's going to be technical bloat. But I don't think that means it cannot be improved for new content.
No, I actually like my character being referred to as their proper gender, and would rather not have voice lines diluted for this purpose. It's not a "design choice" at all either to refer to someone as their sex.