Imma spill some glamour option tea a bit...

[PrincessMarbleSays]

So I’ve done a recent count/rundown of the options for glamours, and I’ll probably not be the first to mention it but there is a clear issue with balance here.
I mean to post this constructively, as I love FFXIV dearly. But, from the perspective I’ve given a lot of review too, the glamour options/gear tends to lean more towards a male-dominant look. Of course there are several female-styled options, but not nearly as many as there are male and the quality has considerable differences to them.

To specifically point out, veteran rewards only host the cloud, squall, zidane, and wild rose glamour options. While any female iterations such as the Yuna glamour/lightning glamour are the only female-inspired out-of-game lore glams we received. one is now unobtainable while the other is locked for a fee in the mog station.

I find this fact incredibly hard to ignore given that those glamour crossovers are meant to act as prizes for everyone, and yet they are all specifically male-based and leave little room for enjoyment if you don’t intend to play as a male or gender-bend as, let’s say cloud.

In the mog station, almost back to back male-glam options were dropped. The Hien and Gosetsu glamours, but females were only given a lyse-inspired glam which didn’t even come with her hair option (like some of the others have) and to be fair the top has a dirty sweaty chest wrap. When we could have also been given a style such as yotsuyu’s to balance the fact that our glam option compared to the two male glamour options was far lesser in quality and design. It amounted to a less than usable top and shorts with barely noticeable gloves and shoes that you can already get in the game from ARR content only the lyse-style shoes aren’t dyeable.

I can respect that it does take time and cost to factor in these details but I also think that as a paying player, I’d appreciate a little more of a feminine variety to the style options. The edits are incredibly linear as is, leaving us with coloring and hairstyles as our main (and nearly only) method of originality.

It goes without saying that FFXIV has been and in my opinion is the nicest mmo to-date, id like that to reflect not only in gameplay but overall aesthetic in the player base with unique styles that aren’t one-dimensional and particularly favoring the male players.

[Rymm]

[PrincessMarbleSays]

Erm no... I’m posting on behalf of the fact that I am very much a female and would care to see a little more diversity in the glamour options. Care to chat about it personally? Add me on discord for a voice chat. I’m all for an adult discussion on these topics.

[KaivaC]

Erm no... I’m posting on behalf of the fact that I am very much a female and would care to see a little more diversity in the glamour options. Care to chat about it personally? Add me on discord for a voice chat. I’m all for an adult discussion on these topics.

Says to add her on discord for a voice chat and in the nature of having an adult discussion.

Doesn't even post a discord for people to take up her offer.

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edit: Personally not interested in having a chat about glamour options - just pointing out the one oddity that's standing out.

[BillyKaplan]

[Checks calendar] Oh it's time for this thread again I guess

males lack a particular anatomy to fill out Tifa's outfits ;p

Sure, if they give it the bunny outfit treatment and slap it as-is without any modifications. I'm not even talking about design changes so much as not making the chest parts look quite so much like bras. Which they understandably are for the women, but don't fit the men so much.

This game needs more skimpy male outfit options.

Louder for the people in the back

The thing about the outfits mentioned in the OP is that they were given as Veteran Awards. That means that they had to either give two outfits, one per available sex, or give us unisex options. As less people would approve of guys running around in Aerith's outfit than ladies running around in Cloud's, that's the solution they went with. That's also why Snow and Lightning are matches, as well as Yuna and Tidus - balance. I know you think you're asking for equality, but the end result would be the opposite.

[Gemina]

Sure, if they give it the bunny outfit treatment and slap it as-is without any modifications. I'm not even talking about design changes so much as not making the chest parts look quite so much like bras. Which they understandably are for the women, but don't fit the men so much.

The iconic male glamours are not modified for females iirc, at least not the ones I have. So if they modified any of Tifa's outfits for males, I wouldn't even really consider it her outfit anymore at that point. Just something that resembles it, which you might already be able to do with our current options.

[PrincessMarbleSays]

No one asked yet. So sure lemme just post right in public instead of waiting for a message personally orfor someone to specifically ask for my discord.

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[PrincessMarbleSays]

Says to add her on discord for a voice chat and in the nature of having an adult discussion.

Doesn't even post a discord for people to take up her offer.

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edit: Personally not interested in having a chat about glamour options - just pointing out the one oddity that's standing out.

No ones asked for my discord yet.

[PrincessMarbleSays]

No ones asked for my discord yet.

Or is your advice to post my discord name publicly without anyone even remotely interested in speaking to me, just throw it up here and wait on all the people who won’t show up to discuss a simple topic that no one really seems interested in, because they wanna post about thumb emojis and discord names? Lemme get right on that.

[Tsumdere]

lol

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