Disgendered Glams.

[Iscah]

I care about variety and having things that look good on my character. It's not lost on me that the people looking to dunk on me in this thread are many of the same who come into threads about viera being an incomplete race saying "too bad", or that it's been exclusively female characters looking to have male glams as well.

Read the thread again. Half the discussion in this thread is people with male characters looking to get female glamour pieces.

Also, the gear that looks good on a character is not the same thing as gear that a character can equip. As someone who plays multiple characters of different races, each one of them has gear that suits them and gear that looks awful on them. It's not just a gender divide – even two characters of the same race/gender can suit different styles of outfits and look bad in something that suits the other.

[PyurBlue]

I care about variety and having things that look good on my character.

Then why is exclusivity important at all? Exclusvity has never made an outfit more appealing to me, it's also never created variety, it only ever does the opposite by removing possible combinations that you might have otherwise seen.

It's not lost on me that the people looking to dunk on me

Disagreeing with you is not dunking.

many of the same who come into threads about viera being an incomplete race saying "too bad", or that it's been exclusively female characters looking to have male glams as well.

You do know at the minimum you have 8 character slots in FF14? Why can't I be a Viera and be upset at the limited options they have, or be a male character in game and want some female clothing options because they're better than the male ones?

Fact is female glams look bad on male characters unless you have a thing for crossdressing, a problem female characters don't have.

This is the furthest thing from a fact. What looks good is subjective only. That is the fact. Your problem isn't one of gender, it's that you have a narrow selection of styles that you like to wear. That's fine, but it doesn't mean that the game needs to revolve around your particular tastes.

100 years ago pink was a "masculine" color. 200 years ago men would put on wigs and strut around in heels. 500 years ago, having purposely impractical shoes that interfered with your ability to perform basic tasks was a status symbol for upper class males. This stuff changes like the wind.

So, it really only benefits female characters to have these de gendered.

All are benefited equally by having more choice. You may not like every option available to you, but you're not the only player.

It removes what's unique about male characters and gives their unique looks to people who already have most of the game catered to them. It's infuriating to have a few good glams that looks good on your character and some catgirl comes by and just yoink I'll take that too.

The male body is different from the female body, and the important differences can be detected even through clothing. A man wearing the same outfit as a woman can still look distinct, so I don't really agree that anything is lost. At least with all options unlocked variety is maximized and no one is left wanting something that they arbitrarily are banned from having.