Quote Originally Posted by Kit-Kat View Post
That was the playerbase general opinion. The real reason is, from a developer point of view, it's a lot of work. First, designing both male and female with their animations and also for each job and combat. Then adapting every piece of gear in the game to their body shapes. On top of that, they added new jobs in an expansion, whis is also a lot of work. All that while maintaining your current patches work.
See, even if I understand that point I find it to be rather weak one:
FFXIV is the only real competitor to the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft, if you really want to compete you need to at least try and match what they do, over the course of their expansion they added new races, improved the old ones, added customization. Now I do understand that is probably easier for WoW due to the different art style, but still, Square Enix is not exactly the indie company developing pixel games in the basement of your apartment building. They have the power to invest in the game, and if ou want to keep old players invested and find new players those are the sort of things you kinda have to do.