STOP Genderlocking Cosmetics!!

[Lauront]

I think a lot of it can be attributed to the unfortunate fact that feedback just doesn't seem to be gathered from the official forum at all these days. Our community representatives are rarely seen and that may very well be due to having their hands tied. As it stands, it's far easier to get a voice heard over on Twitter by virtue of being able to respond directly to posts that are made by the official FFXIV account. I've been doing that lately to balance out the often one sided voices who are loud but arguably not representative of the community as a whole.

People have been asking for years for more tattoo options and facial hair for men. Yet in an interview, Yoshi-P expressed surprise which suggests that he wasn't told.

Which, in turn, begs the question - why was he told that people wanted a bunch of female outfits made available to use on male characters but not told that there's a pretty decent amount of demand for male characters to have more facial hair options?

As for the amount of people playing female characters compared to male characters, it's actually a roughly equal split on a global level when accounting for all major regions mashed together which is the figure that the development team should be looking at.

Indeed. Basically, the split isn't great enough to warrant only catering to one gender and not the other - and besides if you as a developer do that it can end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of your own making.