Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
So nobody should ever give any sort of advice, suggestions, or feedback about anything related to the game? If that were the case, these forums wouldn't exist.

Of course it's SE's game and they can do whatever they like with it. Nobody's suggested otherwise. But that doesn't mean that a feedback-less vacuum would be the best way for them to do so.
I beg to differ with the bold underlined part. Offering feedback is generally within the grounds of a one-and-done sort of thing. The reason I say that is because it is then left up to the people in charge to determine if that's something they want/have to follow. It's fine to keep leaving the same feedback, but that's where a large part of the problem is. People are taking the choices for creative freedom as some form of personal offense because the devs didn't take feedback that they made as a form of passive demand, i.e. "it must be done from here on or I'll get mad."

That's when a lot of the people on these threads tend to throw around the bigot card to anyone who says that it's not a big deal in hopes that the fear and social stigma behind it will rally people to their personal word and castrate anyone who doesn't think like they do. In fact, the basis for the whole thing is the feeling of oppression for not being able to get what others have just because they chose to be male/female/etc. I'm willing to bet this was never the devs intent, but people still ended up feeling that way. Here's the kicker though: these same people generally use the fear card to get people to change the ways that others look at it to get what they want. It's that same form of oppression, except 100% intentional because people are idiots about what they view is right as they force it down the throats of others. You promote fear and want for sacrifice of creative freedoms over something as petty as glamour? There's a bigger problem at play here and it's not coming from the devs. It has always been this way and it will never change because no one wants to accept the negatives behind their actions or they just don't understand the big picture.

Please keep in mind how this all started to gain headway. It wasn't because sex/gender locks prevented people from playing the game (dungeons, crafting, interactions, etc). It was because some folks wanted bunny ears for male characters. Repeat that to yourself a few times until it sinks in. We're throwing real life issues that deal with actually harmful forms of oppression, harm, and death into a game over bunny ears... real stand up community this is.