Gender Locking and Hats: This is a constraint issue

[Iscah]

combined with his rather forced jokes at "lol we put pants on the male dancers, ur welcome"

I didn't see that as a joke, but then I'd rather have the pants for both genders. Especially if the 'skirt' comes attached to the pants rather than the skimpy top.


(Also, it was kinda funny to me that they picked an Au Ra to show off the male version of the outfit - because that's the kind of stuff I've been putting my alt in anyway, based off what they wear for starter gear.)

Apparently they couldn't figure out how to make hats work on the races before they promised them to the community.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._with_yoshida/
Oopsie~

Unless the earlier claims that they were "redoing the heargear system" (or whatever exactly they said) was very optimistic PR speak for "we're going through the items and setting them to not display on certain characters". I hope it's not the case, but it seems possible in hindsight.

Overall it seems an odd decision, especially for Viera who should at least be able to share some Miqo'te headgear if it has open earholes - at least if they planned ahead and placed the ears in the same position on the head, which I don't think they have. And they could certainly wear glasses.

[Insainbutterfly]

I totally agree with you on this. It really does seem like a budget/time issue more than anything else. With that said, I'm hopeful that future updates in the 5.x series will address the issues and fix these problems. That also said, for them to fix the issues as a priority, the hue and cry from the fanbase needs to be very loud and persistent. What I would really like is for YoshiP to at least acknowledge that he's heard the fan's issues and state whether or not they intend to fix the issues.

[Korihu]

Don't bully. THey're a small indie company, you can't ask so much of them like a full complete race, or else it's entitledness and crying.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I...was rude? I was kind of joking with the indie company comparision, as shown by the barely visible /s. Where did I even try to put words in ya mouth? Calm down a little, jesus.

I just wanted to expose my opinion that problematic things about details popping up right now most likely are (as normally happens) a signal that bigger problems might arise on the xpac. It's normally not a good signal to have the dev team basically admitting they didn't think things through with the new races they added that they aren't even sure how to make the headpieces work in time for the deadline. They surely had more than a few problems during development but still want to perhaps rush a product that might not be ready yet.

I'd like to remind everyone that this isn't a free to play game. People pay monthly for this, they pay for the base game and xpacs, and finally we have the added honor of having what equals to a cash shop on top of that. I'd honestly expect a bit more from this team, ya know?

But for god's sake, I'm not trying to offend you or the devs personally, I'm just puzzled by the choices they made.

To be fair, your sarcasm marker was well hidden.