Please Stop Genderlocking Gear

[Granyala]

Both your first and second points were just your feelings. Neither were facts, which makes them invalid arguments and not of much use to read.

Well DUH... Sherlock.
We are talking about clothing here, naturally it is all subjective opinion.

From a technical perspective, there is nothing holding them back. Given that they already designed 2 distinct items, DEV effort is not the reason why they did this, as it would be the same. What does that leave us?

The DEVs did not think it would fit the males according to their design vision. Design vision is part of any game, just like technical aspects. After all, others WILL have to see your glam, whether they like it or not, so your choices also affect others play. DEVs have to consider that aspect too, you know?

Now, you can argue them being inconsistent in said vision.
I would completely agree, once you start unlocking such gear you should do away with the locks completely. Pending manpower, as these items are typically not auto-scalable from female->male and vice versa, thus need to be re-designed by hand. Even the textures may not work due to different stretching / vertex structure. That is quite some effort.
IMHO the consistency ship sailed when they made the "casino-bunny-slu- *cough* lady" outfit available for men) but ultimately it's their game and their prerogative to implement things according to their tastes.

As players we are in a take it or leave it situation. There is no OBJECTIVE argument against their design vision. We can agree with it. We can disagree but we cannot OBJECTIVELY argue against it.

Some people want the glam on males, that is not objective that is their TASTE. This is a legitimate wish, naturally, but lets not pretend you have some moral high ground over me by arguing "facts". You do not.

This tbh, but this thread has quite a few aggressive people really that will yell you down the second you dare say something that goes agaisnt what they say, the amount of people in this thread that got called homophobic or bigots for not wanting this is actually crazy, I would just give as advice to ignore them as honestly there's no discussion to be had with them

I'll admit it: I was bored and thought I poke the hornets nest a bit with an unpopular opinion. Don't worry, I can take the flak. :'D