Non-binary option for characters, please?

[Tint]

I do have to wonder how people will handle it in future games with character-creator options though, because even the most idealistic "cater to everyone" aspiration needs to be balanced with how many extra options they can actually provide.

I guess it might depend on where society goes and what becomes the 'expected minimum', and whether people identify in more complex or less complex ways once (or "if", for those who don't see it as inevitable) things become more settled and accepted. Not having to 'make up their own answer' for how to handle pronouns, for example. Singular-they seems to be becoming standardised, in mainstream coverage at least, though I don't know if everyone thinks that's the case or not.

We can't even create left handed characters here, despite the fact that left handed people are pretty much accepted as human beings, so I wouldn't expect too much o.ô;

(btw, why aren't left handed characters a thing)

[Iscah]

We can't even create left handed characters here, despite the fact that left handed people are pretty much accepted as human beings, so I wouldn't expect too much o.ô;

(btw, why aren't left handed characters a thing)

All summoners are lefties!

(But yeah, the option would have been nice. No doubt would have meant sacrificing something else though. I'd take the ability to flip hairstyles over body animations, given a choice of one extra thing.)

[Magic-Mal]

We can't even create left handed characters here, despite the fact that left handed people are pretty much accepted as human beings, so I wouldn't expect too much o.ô;

(btw, why aren't left handed characters a thing)

Time to make a controversial thread. I've come up with a new recipeh!

[Riardon]

SE won't do it. Not because it might be a controversial subject to many people (remember XIV is a game played by players in many countries and continents) but because the game itself is limited to crawl.
The character creation screen is too limited and won't allow any other extra option unless SE overhauls its graphic engine and develop a major update to the core of the game.
Something that I can't see them doing any time soon.
What they could do however is the introduction of gender-less new playable race. Though I don't know if people who want something like this will agree on the appearance of this race and still they will have to rewrite many quest lines as the game still refers to you as he/she despite how neutral it is.
It's certainly not a thing that might ever happen. There are other more burning priorities.
RP can help you circumvent the issue as many of the NPCs you talk with in game don't know what you are inside your pants.
It's lore friendly.

[cougarel]

This is why we can't have nice things in life and you thought it would be good to bring this to the only calming , less polluted place of recreation we still have.

There has to always be someone to play the "victim" card and the entitlement "me, me, me" .
I agree with more options, this is not the case.

[TaiyoShikasu]

This is why we can't have nice things in life and you thought it would be good to bring this to the only calming , less polluted place of recreation we still have.

There has to always be someone to play the "victim" cad and the entitlement "me, me, me" .
I agree with more options, this is not the case.

I think the ones feeling victimized are the ones who are opposed to something that has literally no effect on them.

[cougarel]

Yes, that's it, not because that it is literally nonsense this wave.
Also there wouldn't be a direct impact on me or others, but the message is pretty straightforward and again, this is a game , it shouldn't be subjected to real life and this has been horsed to dead.

[swiss_Momo]

dear god, no #GetWokeGoBroke

stupid weekend bait threads like this are the reason why the devs will never take the western playerbase serious. (And also why I don't want to associate with LGBT+ despite being trans)
There are only 2 genders, stop trying to compensate your lack personality with made-up special snowflake terms. But at least /v/ will have fun with this thread for a while...

[TimeraiderGaranyi]

Or they change the word "Gender" in character creation to "sex" ...done.
As many genders as there may be, there are only 2 biological sexes. Can't blame anyone for adressing someone a certain way depending on their sex.

But yeah.. as said above, its an awefully small minority and while it might seem easy as the most logical way of their system would be to have the text adjusted per choice thus meaning adding one more choice and selecting a different word there would work.
However i am unsure on how many sentences they have whereby replacing any gender-specific words by a default replacement will make it grammatically not correct anymore. It might be alot more work than we expect it to be.

[FFgame]

Nobody cares about your gender meat popsicle! Learn how to play your job instead.