You can buy Lyse’s outfit now.

[kidalutz]

totes reminds me of Kid from Chrono Cross just a hair.

[Felis]

Once again the good stuff goes to the cash shop.

It's MSQ NPC outfit

Heres a question to make you rack your brain. What FREE TO PLAY GAME has a more expensive cash shop then FFXIV?

F2P games = want everyone to buy stuff in their shop
FF XIV = only a bonus and optional luxus, not neccessary to keep the game running

Oh, good, more genderlocked items with nothing added for male characters. SE sure is keeping to their promise to fix that imbalance and avoid adding to it going forward. Great job, guys!

Open up a thread and demand the outfit from Conrad (a male NPC)

[Alleo]

I really hope that they wont sell Lyses red dress in the mog station because that would just be another hint that we will get more stuff there instead of the game. She said that this was a traditional dress in Ala Mhigo and in the past we got the traditional common clothes in the Gold saucer. If they now put even those things in the mog station we are getting less and less glamour content in the game itself.

Also I still find it bad that they cant be bothered to create an unisex version (or a version for both genders) when its even a paid costume..I mean they get money back from selling it and once you have it done the cost for selling it is kinda zero since its a digital good. So for me it feels more like they are selling this to make easy and fast money without a thought about us as a playerbase. How hard is it to change this if you directly get money back from it? How hard is it to make it dyeable?

They truly implement this the easiest way possible without much change to it and yet want quite the money for an item that was already existing in the game anyway..

[Serilda]

Open up a thread and demand the outfit from Conrad (a male NPC)

We already have it, it's generic dungeon gear. Girls can wear it too. All of the design enthusiasm went into the unique (overwhelmingly female) story NPC gear for Stormblood. Since we're obviously going to get passed over when Lyse's battle dress is released this would have been a good one to make unisex.

I think we'd rather have a detailed open jacket like Lyse's, and some actual all-job shorts, than a cash shop version of a beige level 60 dungeon drop.

I like how the JP Twitter account is currently trolling us more by celebrating 'nice knee-highs' day with a bunch of pictures of popular female glamours involving kneesocks. Just be honest and delete us from the game, S-E.

[Leloa]

I am just waiting for her dress and hair to be released...

[Theodric]

I like how the JP Twitter account is currently trolling us more by celebrating 'nice knee-highs' day with a bunch of pictures of popular female glamours involving kneesocks. Just be honest and delete us from the game, S-E.

I avoid the likes of Twitter, so I'm not up to date with anything related to the official FFXIV Twitter pages. Though I'm genuinely curious - is there a lack of focus on male characters there as well? I know a lot of the seasonal event and teaser art has a habit of 'hiding away' male characters especially if it's a beach scene...

[NephthysVasudan]

honestly I'd want Lyse's other outfit in SB....the more formal one? I guess you could call it.

[BillyKaplan]

I avoid the likes of Twitter, so I'm not up to date with anything related to the official FFXIV Twitter pages. Though I'm genuinely curious - is there a lack of focus on male characters there as well? I know a lot of the seasonal event and teaser art has a habit of 'hiding away' male characters especially if it's a beach scene...

When you stop to think about it, last summer event used the female gaze as an actual fail condition for a quest when you're spying after what Gegeruju was looking at. Male characters being presented in a sexual light, least of all showing skin, is condemned and abhorred by the game and its developers. Which is wrong for so many reasons.

[Serilda]

I avoid the likes of Twitter, so I'm not up to date with anything related to the official FFXIV Twitter pages. Though I'm genuinely curious - is there a lack of focus on male characters there as well?

The preference for cute girls is pretty universal lately; they use cute (and only cute) female characters to show things off in streams and as you say, female characters in the seasonal artwork with the occasional dude as a background prop (convenient, since our event gear is usually sloppier and less unique so they wouldn't want it front and centre). Even the male NPCs get shafted with two of the male Scions getting no unique HW gear and most of the key male NPCs pulling outfits together from generic items.

Choosing to celebrate 'knee-highs day' specifically when they know only half their playerbase can get involved properly is the usual tonedeaf foolishness. Their Twitter uploads are full of female characters in nice outfits. And then there are events like the gear design contests, where the staff picked out the female versions of most of the designs for the gallery and never even showed off the male variants, making huge walls of gorgeous dresses for people to visualise.

The wording on some of the cash shop betrays the opinions of the writers; it seems to be a companywide systemic bias. I've mentioned this example before:

“While guys are only sporting a standard pair of spiderweb stockings, the ladies can also enjoy a stylish short skirt."

Guys, who even cares about them? I actually liked the stockings in question but the description was directly insulting and it's far from the only example :/

[LastFireAce]

mehhhhhhh don't care XD