Remove Gender-Lock From Gear / Glamour Please

[Lihtleita]

If this is your hyperbolic way of saying you want fitted gear, than I'm glad we're in agreement.

no its me saying race locked glams don't make a lot of sense. a raen from sharlaen isn't going to have much in common with one from the ruby sea, let alone a xeala from the steppe. why would they all dress the same when they live in drastically different environments? you might as well lock clothing to hair colour or height at that point.

[Theodric]

Well, considering that certain playable races have unique traits such as horns and tails...there's a lot of potential for some interesting race locked gear that takes advantage of that. It sure would be nice to have some glamour that allows my character's tail to breathe and not just clip awkwardly through the metal/fabric. It's also not at all unusual for other fantasy games - both single and multi-player - to take advantage of the differences between playable races and embrace glamour options that are locked to the player's chosen race.

[Packetdancer]

The whole "skirts/leggings turn into pants for males and vice versa for females" is a meme at this point.

*waves her 'please give me pants' placard around more*

"Look, I just want some pants. A decent pair of pants!" ("Solomon Grundy want pants, too!")

[Hazama999]

*waves her 'please give me pants' placard around more*

"Look, I just want some pants. A decent pair of pants!" ("Solomon Grundy want pants, too!")

I could trade you my pants (though they'd likely be shorts to you lol) but they'd magically poof into a skirt upon reaching your hands!

[TheMightyMollusk]

And stockings. Can't forget those.

[Lukha]

Agreed 100%: I'm not a big lover of the mogstation, but there are quite a few things on there that would be instant-buys...if only my character could equip them. The gloves that come with the new female-only set would definitely be worth the money, and I'd do anything to be able to wear the Nezha Lady's set. I also know quite a few people with female characters who have been pining after certain male-only sets for years, so this definitely cuts both ways, and that's sad.

5.4 fixed several previously genderlocked glamours with zero fanfare, so I'm cautiously optimistic that future patches will continue to do the same, and if 5.5 does the same I'll finally be able to truly believe they're serious about this, and not just throwing players a bone again to get us to shut up about genderlocking for a while. I do have some doubts that mogstation items, at least the ones that technically belong to the companies that run the KR and CN versions of the game, will end up having the generlocks removed, but I would love so very, very much to be proven wrong about this.

<_< As far as asking for 'more racial gear'...Yes please, give us some traditional gear for the different races/clans, but instead of race-locking it, lock it behind a questline using the same system as our current beast tribes that expands the lore of that race/clan combination. At Rank 2 the vendor will sell you all-race versions of that race's starter gear, at some middle rank, all-race versions of that race's hempen set, and max rank could be a new unique set of 'traditional' gear for members of that race. This way everyone gets cool new gear and we can finally get some concrete lore for certain clans that are starving for it. (My vote would be to start with either Keeper Miqo'te or Duskwight Elezen, but I'd take anything gladly).

[MilkieTea]

Oh jeez, I can't handle gender restrictions being unlocked! *gasp*... now female toons... would be able to wear pants? and male toons... dresses? *gag*, it's never been done before! In real life, women wear dresses and men wear pants! It's always been that way, bring back manly men, blah blah blah. /s

For real though - gender restrictions are LITERALLY meaningless and arbitrary when IRL we can wear whatever we want with the only restriction being whether or not it's too small to fit. I'm a transmasc dude. I wear dresses all the time IRL. Doesn't make me less of a man, doesn't RuIn aNyOnEs ImMeRsSiOn. OP has the right of it, let men wear dresses, let women wear pants. Removing gender restrictions harms NO ONE.

You're playing a high techno-fantasy game set in a fictional universe where catpeople and furry tony-the-tigers exist, and you're worried about men wearing dresses and women wearing pants?

[MilkieTea]

They can't just "lift" gender lock restrictions. They have to refit every single piece of gear to every single female body (vice versa). It takes time. It would take quite a bit of time to do so, to the extent some people would want actually. I'd rather see certain, desirable things lifted. Now that, certain desirable sets being lifted? Let's debate that.

One the only actual arguments against lifting gender lock restrictions that makes sense and isn't "omg!!! ThE lIbErAlS wanna wear dresses on male toons! the world will end!"

IMO I personally think that going forward, gear shouldn't be gender locked. Lifting restrictions on past items should be on a as-needed/as-wanted basis, with the items that the playerbase wants the most taking precedent. Then if they have time, going little by little.

[Infindox]

Looking at recent Mog Station items, I think they are starting to go towards less genderlocking. They just threw up the Korean and Chinese ones without fixing them, which, while annoying, I do get it.

I don't think they need to unlock every piece of gear in the game, but it would be nice if in the future more sets like the College one exist where there's a more "male" and "female" design but both are able to be equipped by everyone. (Also no more events like last V-Day, though I have more problems with that event becides the glamour lol).

[Lihtleita]

<_< As far as asking for 'more racial gear'...Yes please, give us some traditional gear for the different races/clans, but instead of race-locking it, lock it behind a questline using the same system as our current beast tribes that expands the lore of that race/clan combination. At Rank 2 the vendor will sell you all-race versions of that race's starter gear, at some middle rank, all-race versions of that race's hempen set, and max rank could be a new unique set of 'traditional' gear for members of that race. This way everyone gets cool new gear and we can finally get some concrete lore for certain clans that are starving for it. (My vote would be to start with either Keeper Miqo'te or Duskwight Elezen, but I'd take anything gladly).

i love this. duskwight, spine hellsgard and southernseas plainsfolk would make excellent "beast tribes"