Who doesnt want gear restrictions removed?

[HyoMinPark]

It's like you didn't even read my response to your question at all, or you choose to only allow in what you want to hear. I don't know how many times I have to mention that I couldn't care less about what any individual chooses to wear.

Oh no, I read it. But it makes no sense when it’s analyzed. The “immersion” versus “escapism” argument aside, if you truly don’t care about what other people are wearing, then why make statements like this:

However it's decisions like creating male bunny attire that make me rethink how I want to spend my money, because it makes rethink if im playing a game I can truly enjoy.

This implies that you do care if you’re suddenly questioning your own subscription. Despite your earlier insistence in that same post about how what other people wear doesn’t impact you. You effectively contradicted yourself in the same post. Hence why I responded with why do you truly care that much. If you didn’t care at all, you wouldn’t say things about rethinking your subscription over a male bunny outfit.

My concern is towards the dev team and their decision making process. I'm not talking just the bunny attire, I'm talking any time they reverse a previous decision after taking a stance on it. I just use the bunny attire because it's a shining example of it. The description of the gear clearly implies that they didn't really want to do it, but they did it anyway, and player demand is very likely why that decision was made. If the bunny attire was initially made for both genders, I wouldn't have anywhere near the same issue with male players wearing it. I would still think they look stupid, but I digress.

They didn’t want to do it in the beginning; you’re right there. And they did it in the end because of overwhelming feedback from the playerbase because, ultimately, SE is a business that needs to satisfy customer demands. Clearly they saw a high enough demand to reconsider their original decision. Much like they have done with previous decisions in the past: both good and bad. From housing decisions to job performance decisions.

Decision reversal isn’t always a bad thing, but your implication here is that it is. Some decision reversals are, but others are not. You’re allowed to condemn for some, but I don’t think you should imply that all are bad.

I am well aware that if my experience within the game is no longer enjoyable, I can check out. I've already mentioned my considerations and don't need you to enlighten me to what my options are. However, I am within my right to express my discontent within the game and the decisions made by the dev team every bit as much as anyone else. Unless of course you would like to show those who want male viera and other gripes of cosmetic issues exactly where the door is at?

Never said that you weren’t entitled to your opinions, however I do appreciate you putting those words in my mouth. Everyone is allowed to express their discontent. What they aren’t entitled to is to shun people with differing views—something that has occurred in both this thread and the other regarding unlocking the hempen outfits. This isn’t to say that you are doing that, before you read too much into that statement as well. I’ve just noticed a trend that the second anyone expresses an opposing opinion, people on the opposite side start accusing the other party of being intolerant and “shutting them down” simply because the two disagree on a point.

If someone is shutting down another’s opposing opinion, that would be when I would draw the line and say that maybe they aren’t entitled to express them here. Because all they want is an echo chamber, not discussion.

No, my stance is dev decisions directly affects the quality of the playerbase, and the quality of the playerbase can indeed affect my experience in game. This holds true for everyone, including you.

Never said that it didn’t. However, I truly don’t believe that the things being heavily discussed here (glamour options, locking/unlocking them, removing gender locks) are highly detrimental to the game. Certainly not on the level of other decisions that have been made this expansion, like the various homogenization of jobs/roles and destruction of some jobs’ identities entirely. But these are just opinions.

Another mistake you're making is you think I'm considering how all this impacts me. As if I'm that selfish. I'm not even looking at things that way per se. I care about the game and the playerbase as a whole. When I feel the dev team is catering to an agenda, or the lowest common denominator, I think the game as a whole suffers. So no, a male wearing a dress or bunny attire may not affect you directly, but there is a ripple effect that certainly can.

Firstly, that’s not how the lowest common denominator works. Lowest common denominator is, for example, when a job is dumbed down to suit the players that are weakest with regards to playing it; i.e., job simplification/narrowing of the skill gap. Adding more glamour options is not catering to the ‘lowest common denominator’ but fulfilling a request a portion of the playerbase has made. In the case of the male bunny outfit, quite a vocal one and I would assume substantial for the developers to reverse their decision and go about doing it. Honestly, your use of “lowest common denominator” here when describing these “stupid” glamours sounds borderline insulting.

And, again, I disagree that adding male dresses has “degraded the quality of the playerbase” of this game or that it causes any sort of “ripple effect”.

My assumptions that you were talking about how all of this affects you is because your previous post was you talking about your own thoughts on continued investment in this game. Hence my response to you. There was absolutely nothing in it to imply that you were talking about how this affects the playerbase as a whole—just how it affects you. Your repeated uses of first-person pronouns is enough proof of that.