F/M armors

[Anapingofness]

Honestly, I like the way the armor is in the game currently. It's very equal in terms of armor design.
I really like the fact that SE didn't decide to go the Chain Mail Bikini route for female armor. It's a refreshing change. HarukoDK put it very well in his posts. ^^

However, if they want to add different glamour options then I will not be against it. More options are, after all, a good thing. I just don't want the 'Chain Mail Bikini' type armor to be the norm.

[Tsun-Tsun]

There are a few possible reasons for a smaller gear design pool than other mmorpgs:
1. More designs need more people working on them rather than an instance or anything that needs to be textured. 5 races 2 genders is 10 designs for every piece of shared gear.
2. If you have 1 design for both genders its easier to figure out what gear they're wearing and around what level they are without having to examine them. Useful in certain situations, but this idea is also more geared towards pvp based mmo games.
3. They may be trying to limit the amount of fan service available. While there are a number of revealing outfits for females and males alike it's a smaller number than most mmorpgs. Revealing gear tends to be a way to draw a larger, and usually more often male, user base, which is why a lot of F2P tend to have revealing outfits. It doesn't always hold true to that though, I mean TERA started out that way. Hard to say how much of a factor this is at the moment.

Who knows though?

[XzaviyrVL]

I'd strangle a dolphin to get my WAR/DRG into some of that plate style!!!

[L-D-Omlette]

For ST in particular I don't think they based it on what roles the classes should get male/female gear. All the sets are boss themed and as such make more sense to allocate the bosses theme to the a specified role.

I agree the caster stuff looks kinda goofy on a male, especially a Roe, but the idea is to dress up like the boss, and that (or Amon I suppose) was the best choice for casters.

[Rbstr]

I prefer the more unisex thing XIV has going on than large differences.
It's great that most of the skimpy stuff is skimpy on both sexes too.

[Moqi]

And here I thought you were complaining because of that awful chest piece on male. I want to show off my children-like, nipple-less manboobs!

Those designs look good but they would be terrible in game. I actually want them to stop changing gear based on gender. If you're gonna make slutty gear, let us all be the sluts we were meant to be. The ST healher body looks awful on males right now.

[Nutz]

I like the mostly consistent look of armor between genders/ races in this game. It seems like a lot of unnecessary work to design the same armor to be different on different characters when you could just as easily take those multiple designs and make them into multiple sets of armor. With the glamour system and more and more patches coming at least the problem of everyone looking the same is melting away.

Overall I like that most of the armor leans much more heavily toward realism than in a typical MMO. Of course we do have supernaturally glowing weapons, but at least we don't have mysteriously floating bits of armor that may of may not be perpetually on fire. Having females wear armor that affords them the same protection as the male counterpart is a sensible extension of this to me.

[TheUltimate3]

While Aion (I'm sure that is Aion) style armor has no place here, one can't deny that the armor doesn't lack the wow factor. I can appriciate their decision; their use of fantasy armor and the like is a strong suit and one somewhat missed in ffxiv. (All armor here has to also look functiomal, therefore they tend to come in predictable forms) not going to touch that female/male armor debate because frankly eff it.

[LadyVal]

I'd be okay with more armors that look different between male and female, I just don't want every set to end up overly-sexualized.

I just don't want my boobs spilling out or 90% of my skin showing for every outfit ever if they start doing this.

[Chihaya]

There's a lack of Elins in this thread