Live Letter XIV Discussion Thread

[BreathlessTao]

Q40: Suzuki, are there any plans to implement any male-specific vanity gear?

A40: Originally, we were planning for the spring wear to be female-specific and the sailor wear to be male-specific. However, we came to a conclusion that the sailor wear looks awesome on females too so we implemented it for the females as well. Don’t worry, we do have plans to implement male-specific vanity gear in the future!

Well, you better.

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF (after the fact that parts of the questline required participation of male-female couples exclusively). I’m not even sure if there is more, but if there is, it’s not many. Whereas girls got the vanity spring dress but oh, hey, let’s make the counterpart sailor set available for all because it looks great on both guys and gals, yeah, great job. Meanwhile, guys can’t even equip the most basic skirt (really, the most basic example is the Miqo’te racial clothes); and I do have the feeling that when the marriage system comes ‘round, that too will be male-female exclusive as well. I’m not sorry; I get the cultural differences, but this game has been planned for international audience from the start (localisations much??), so I’m not interested in that. Adjust the mentality too, please, and give us options and equal treatment.

[Hyunseo]

Well, you better.

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF (after the fact that parts of the questline required participation of male-female couples exclusively). I’m not even sure if there is more, but if there is, it’s not many. Whereas girls got the vanity spring dress but oh, hey, let’s make the counterpart sailor set available for all because it looks great on both guys and gals, yeah, great job. Meanwhile, guys can’t even equip the most basic skirt (really, the most basic example is the Miqo’te racial clothes); and I do have the feeling that when the marriage system comes ‘round, that too will be male-female exclusive as well. I’m not sorry; I get the cultural differences, but this game has been planned for international audience from the start (localisations much??), so I’m not interested in that. Adjust the mentality too, please, and give us options and equal treatment.

BreathlessTao is spot-on! I think it's wonderful that there is a lot of options for female characters in-game, but more and more one is starting to realise how there's not nearly as many options for male characters as there is for female. I'm not sure if you noticed, but people either gender like to show off style the way they want it...

Or, even, marry the gender they want (but that's a whole other rant that needs to be had...).

[ExponentialDecay]

Well, you better.

nah, boys are inferior.

[Sammich]

I mean, no, I’m not sorry. Male-specific gear that comes to mind, hm… racial clothes that everybody starts with, under-things, and uh… the Valentione-outfit - even that is just a recolor of the CUL AF

Man, I am still po'd about that. I didn't expect to be able to dress my character up in a frilly skirt, but I expected some sort of cute frilly/heart shaped apron at least. A recolour of an existing item when female characters got something genuinely unique was really annoying. Same deal with the spring dress. I assumed that there would be a cute spring (not nautical) themed set for guys too. I'm not asking for skirts (though I don't care if that's the route they choose to take) but I want there to be equal numbers of UNIQUE items.

[TheRogueX]

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When I saw a Paladin in a Battle Dress (armor top with Spring Skirt bottom), I realized that it's not fair that males can't do that too. :P