Quote Originally Posted by Alikyros View Post
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
That's not the same as stating outright that they will no longer lock gear behind gender. Because they have made efforts to unlock/not lock gear behind gender does not prohibit them from doing it whenever they decide to make gear have an exclusive appearance in the future.

There is no bad message being sent. Only a false expectation being created based on non-existent principles that the dev team does not have to abide to.