Female Sundrop Dance

[aesteval]

Why is the female sundrop dance so modest? The male version is very involved, gets the legs moving and everything. The female version barely moves at all, no leg movement, doesn't seem to be any resemblance to the male intensity. Please change the female version to be more intense like the male.

[Skivvy]

Many people agree with you, but I highly doubt things will change. Here's some fun reading for you!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Sundrop-Dance

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ed-for-Females

[Ashkendor]

This basically got discussed to death a few months back. The long and short of it is that it's based on the haka, a real life dance from New Zealand with somewhat differing versions for each gender. It most likely isn't going to be changed.

[aesteval]

Seems like the fair solution would be to make both versions of the dance available and let the player pick which to use. ...my character looks completely wrong using the female version and would look perfectly right using the male version.

[Nyu_Maimhov]

TL;DR: skirts, dresses, hairstyles, and now dances. Oh and forgot the bunny ears/sick pumps/bustiers.

[Eul]

If you want male Sundrop Dance, just go Fantasia to males. We don't even get bunny ears for males so no same sundrop dance for you.

[Skivvy]

TL;DR: skirts, dresses, hairstyles, and now dances.

TL;DR for a 4 sentence post?

[Ashkendor]

Seems like the fair solution would be to make both versions of the dance available and let the player pick which to use. ...my character looks completely wrong using the female version and would look perfectly right using the male version.

Gender disparities like these don't seem to be high on SE's list of priorities. For example, your hairstyle is decidedly gender neutral but males don't have it as an option. Don't worry, female characters are still light years ahead overall with all their exclusive glamours. You get one derpy dance. We get a metric butt-ton of female + unisex glamour options and only a handful of male only ones.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

For example, your hairstyle is decidedly gender neutral but males don't have it as an option.

I want long curley "female" (lol, I have curley long hair) hair for my male. Males have so many 'joke' hairstyles and less then females.

Yep...

[aesteval]

I recently swapped from male Lala to female Roe in game, so - yeah, I have some familiarity in the glamour differences between the two. The glamour game on female characters is worlds different than male. But then there's the dance. Some of these gender differences are absolutely ridiculous (bunny ears gender locked? SERIOUSLY?) and while I can respect the desire to create an accurate representation of a real world counterpart, limiting player options is a terrible idea. I can rearrange 99% of my HUD in game but can't have a choice between versions of a dance on my gender ambiguous Roegadyn.