Quote Originally Posted by Shippuu View Post
And? Gender and race locked classes are a huge thing in MMO's. Please show me major news articles and movements against all the other competing MMO's that have gender locks? There are plenty of MMO's active in the market now and being successful that have gender locks, with some of the most anticipated upcoming MMO's also having them such as crowfall.

SE is in a good position with 14, it's more successful than ever and a little controversy, especially about a fictional race, isn't going to cause any significant damage.
https://mmos.com/editorials/on-chara...cking-in-games

https://www.gamingfactors.com/mmorpg...ocked-classes/

https://www.freemmostation.com/news/...ocked-classes/

https://www.mmobyte.tv/a-brand-new-u...d-information/

https://massivelyop.com/2017/08/31/m...asses-in-mmos/

A few news articles ranging across the years and its very common to see the negative stigma that gender locking brings. Black desert online and Tera could've both been more successful had they not added gender lock on their classes forcing people to play their way rather than the player's way will create attrition.
SE are in a good position with ffxiv but as a company its not as good and they should rightly be thinking about not stirring the pot too much right now especially after cancelling ffxv dlc and don't think the smallest thing won't set people off if Paranorman can get heavily criticized because of having a gay character (literally get told in last minute of the movie) than ffxiv could easily get criticized for adding gender locked races how much only time will tell if it happens.

Now all of that is my side so if you can find news articles in favour of gender locking races/jobs i'll be very interested in reading them as be good to get that perspective.