Missing Genders: A request for Male Miqote, Female Highlander, and Female Roegadyn

[Arcell]

I'm also not saying they should do this right now or that it somehow negates other features we'll get. They have time, years in fact to put things in. In comparison to other pieces of content, creating this wouldn't take very long.

Of course I want them to prioritize the actual game altering fixes and content they already have planned, no one wants this to get in the way of that current. I just think that they can realistically do this somewhere down the line without it "taking away" from much else.

We're not talking about a single-player game where the game development time is very limited and once it's out, that's a majority of the content that's going to exist for it. This is an MMO, a game meant to exist for 5+ years with additions being quite commonplace.

[Betelgeuzah]

In comparison to other pieces of content, creating this wouldn't take very long.

Creating new animations for every existing weapon types and skills, while reworking the entire equipment repertoire to fit the new character model as well as creating several new customization options takes actually a huge amount of work (as well as makes designing new weapon types, skills and equipment models a slower and more expensive process in the future). The only feature that would require more resources and time is probably creating new areas.

[Arcell]

Well to be fair they're reworking most of the weapon animations for everyone already. The weapon skill animations right now are pretty much the same for every race/gender.

Once the major fixes they're currently working on (all currently projected) most of what they have to do is add more content as they won't be making another game system changing fix. This is a piece of content I would like to see eventually, as would others. I suppose I can see why people would be in opposition to it in that respect though, but most people who are in opposition to this idea haven't thought that deeply about it. Most just don't want to see them because they resist change.

[Betelgeuzah]

Most just don't want to see them because they resist change.

Now, where is the truthful base for this statement? You can disagree, but twisting people's opinions is foolish. The opposition is not there for such petty reasons, and if for some that statement holds true, there is no way to prove that the majority thinks that way.

[Arcell]

Most I've seen in this thread who are opposed to it either don't want it because they don't want to see them added for XI reasons (resistant to change), they think it's a stupid idea (I've seen a variety of reasons, including resistance to change) or they think it's not a priority. The fact that it's not a high priority I think is one of the few sound arguments against it.

I suppose most wasn't the right word, some is more appropriate.

[Betelgeuzah]

I can agree with that.

[Coombah]

I would love to be a fly on the devolpers wall when they started talking about this and some other topics..Still waiting on a answer Yoshi-P :P

[Fleur]

Personally, I think a lot of the resistance to the idea is of the variety of:

"Ew, big muscular women, I don't want women characters* I don't find attractive in the game! Who would play that anyway?"
and
"LOL girly cat boys, only silly fangirls want that, keep them away or I might get their non manly-man cooties!"

For example, imagine if only Mi'qote males were playable in FFXI and FFXIV -- somehow I don't think we'd be seeing as much resistance to the idea of making females playable. ^_~

Though of course, the issue of it being high priority or not is a valid one but I think most of us can agree that more playable genders is not something we want high up on the to-do list.

*Lalafell aside, as let's face it, their features are simply to childish to our human eyes to seem like adult men and women.

[SnowTiger]

It would totally be worth the development time... I hope SE goes through with this and adds male miqotes. XD

Hey, if hey are really that short on manpower, they could just give the female miqotes flat chests, new voices, and new hair styles, and call it a wrap... I'd be fine with that lol. ;3

Female galkas on the other hand... yikes lol. They can save on dev time by leaving them out lol.

[Nabiri]

Personally, I think a lot of the resistance to the idea is of the variety of:

"Ew, big muscular women, I don't want women characters* I don't find attractive in the game! Who would play that anyway?"
and
"LOL girly cat boys, only silly fangirls want that, keep them away or I might get their non manly-man cooties!"

For example, imagine if only Mi'qote males were playable in FFXI and FFXIV -- somehow I don't think we'd be seeing as much resistance to the idea of making females playable. ^_~

Though of course, the issue of it being high priority or not is a valid one but I think most of us can agree that more playable genders is not something we want high up on the to-do list.

*Lalafell aside, as let's face it, their features are simply to childish to our human eyes to seem like adult men and women.

I'm not sure where all the homophobia and female muscle phobia is coming from. We've never been shown a picture of them and have no idea what they look like.
Some people act like male miqo'te would somehow be more feminine than the females. O.o I honestly can't picture that happening.