STOP Genderlocking Cosmetics!!

[GrizzlyTank]

There's 2 fundamentals at play.

1. Most of us choose male characters for male looks.
2. Having to make Ryne's outfit both genders, for example would require twice as much work. That's the last thing we want, these devs haven't even finished female hrothgar yet and are behind on high res textures, and character creator.

Removing gender locking for a piece of gear would not require "twice as much work". Most of the development time goes into designing and creating the base model, usually done with a male hyur as base and then it is copied over to the other race/sex combinations with minor changes...

Except for all the times they decide to make twice as many unique models because they are obsessed with gender locking...

They way they are doing things now takes significantly more time than to not gender lock things.

[TTiscancer]

Removing gender locking for a piece of gear would not require "twice as much work". Most of the development time goes into designing and creating the base model, usually done with a male hyur as base and then it is copied over to the other race/sex combinations with minor changes...

That is completely and utterly untrue. Every piece of gear is remade for every race that can wear it. This isn't wow where they just stretch them to fit because all the gear is just painted on. You know literally nothing about anything, please stop.

Every single piece of gear has a unique model x race x gender.

[Amnmaat]

Haha Grizzlytank thinks the game actually has an engine that stretches the hyur midlander body to fit every race (except Roegadyn)? If that was the case making male viera and female hrothgar would be easy as hell.

Instead what we got from Yoship is how they had to go through thousands of gear pieces and fit them manually to the race's specifications.

Furthermore, with the never-ending gender denominations/RP denominations how can they satisfy this crowd?
If it's not male characters wanting to dress like women it's people like Grizzly tank asking them to make whatever fits on men to look exactly the same way on female characters.

In this neverending identity world there's no way the devs win. They would only win if they stressed themselves out to make the same glam a hundred times to satisfy:
1. Male looking version of glam example 1
2. Female looking version of glam example 1
3. Male looking version of glam example 1 for female characters
4. Female looking version of glam example 1 for male characters

That would be the only scenario where the men wanting to look like women and the women wanting to look like men would satisfy all the possible scenarios. That's essentially doubling their workload.

[Zavinus]

I agree with this idea. There are a lot of outfits that don't make sense to be genderlocked and even if you're a male Roegadyn wanting to run around in Yuna's dress then who am I to object? I'm all for more customization

[TTiscancer]

Haha Grizzlytank thinks the game actually has an engine that stretches the hyur midlander body to fit every race (except Roegadyn)? If that was the case making male viera and female hrothgar would be easy as hell.

Instead what we got from Yoship is how they had to go through thousands of gear pieces and fit them manually to the race's specifications.

Furthermore, with the never-ending gender denominations/RP denominations how can they satisfy this crowd?
If it's not male characters wanting to dress like women it's people like Grizzly tank asking them to make whatever fits on men to look exactly the same way on female characters.

In this neverending identity world there's no way the devs win. They would only win if they stressed themselves out to make the same glam a hundred times to satisfy:
1. Male looking version of glam example 1
2. Female looking version of glam example 1
3. Male looking version of glam example 1 for female characters
4. Female looking version of glam example 1 for male characters

That would be the only scenario where the men wanting to look like women and the women wanting to look like men would satisfy all the possible scenarios. That's essentially doubling their workload.

I DEMAND every female outfit on females is remade to have a bulge option! It'S TwENtYtWEnTYoNE u bagots!

[Scryar]

I'm against it. I don't care if male characters wear dresses or skirts but not genderlocking new outfits often leads to one unisex version of the outfit which is usually traditionally masculine. That's something the game has already too much of.

[GrizzlyTank]

That is completely and utterly untrue. Every piece of gear is remade for every race that can wear it. This isn't wow where they just stretch them to fit because all the gear is just painted on. You know literally nothing about anything, please stop.

Every single piece of gear has a unique model x race x gender.

If that is the case, then someone over at square have screwed up their development process significantly and it should have been fixed years ago.

[TTiscancer]

If that is the case, then someone over at square have screwed up their development process significantly and it should have been fixed years ago.

I'll take clothing and armor that actually looks like clothing armor with volume over painted-on textures, thanks.

[Clover_Blake]

Every piece of gear is remade for every race that can wear it. This isn't wow where they just stretch them to fit because all the gear is just painted on. You know literally nothing about anything, please stop.

Every single piece of gear has a unique model x race x gender.

This is why I don't mind genderlocking some outfits, if it means my characters can get a cute, feminine version. I love dresses and skirts! Otherwise, as someone else pointed out, they'd just try to make everything unisex (which is understandable because time and resources are not infinite), and this translates into everything being mostly masculine.

[Jin-]

What's more shocking and very confusing is that apparently, every single male exclusive designed item is always fitted and wearable for every female race. But the reverse is not true, as the data just doesn't exist at all.

Blame nature for shaping female body like that. All the gear can look good on females and only "half" can look on males