Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Where and when did they state this? Can you provide a source? And ppl are unhappy because they are entitled brats.


Why? Because reasons? Given that AF sets changing appearance based on gender is a trend that goes all the way back to ARR, why are you or anyone surprised/disappointed by this?

It is quite simple, really. The dev team are under no restrictions that prevent them from designing gear specific for males and females, or race as they see fit. Even if they did state that they would no longer lock gear behind gender, that does not apply in this case as the gear isn't technically gender locked. Understand that you or anyone who has a problem with this, that problem belongs to the person complaining. Not the game or the dev team.

I already know the argument of pig suits, tanking in a bikini, bunnies, and silliness are well on their way. Save them until I can grab my violin.
They've been actively removing gender-locked gear in recent patches and making it accessible to everyone, look in the patch notes and it's right there. The annoyance comes from the differences only being for select classes. The fact that the crop-top picto look is the one they've been advertising since the job was revealed has only led to people feeling misled when the entire identity of the job seemed to be intentionally messy and mismatched (the undershirt breaks that flow). WAR gets a crop top for both genders, so the difference here is redundant and unnecessary. Just screams that women need to show skin and men can't, so it sends a bad message both ways :P