STOP Genderlocking Cosmetics!!

[LisSquid]

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?

I'd assume that it's because the models are already made. It's easier to port a model in the gear system than it is to add a texture to the already limited character creation system. We had one facial tattoo option added to face paints in a Halloween event years ago, but I can't recall seeing another since. It makes me believe that the current code made it impractical to continue.

Pretty safe to assume that very few suggestions made on the forum (especially the English ones) make it to Yoshi P. The Male Viera/Female Hrothgar may have been the exception, but not the rule.

I'm just kind of stumped on gear design, because I am on board with more masculine gear, but I do not want it pushed into the same situation where it's locked.

All gear in this game skews heavily into the feminine with exceptions, sure, but it's a fact. I don't know if it's because they deem certain sets need to be unisex (so they end up with bulky cuts with bows and ribbons slapped onto them for some ungodly reason), but I'd rather they just made hard feminine and hard masculine appearances. Then let us choose which ones we wanted to use. Could free us from the unisex design if they slapped a swapper in the Calamity Salvager, or some such.

[KizuyaKatogami]

They basically created 15 year old teenagers. So much for "we will not create underage races in FFXIV."

Unfortunately not inaccurate. It’s what the loud twitter users wanted unfortunately. It shouldn’t come as a total surprise i suppose considering this is the same team that had an underage girl strip naked in a raid and have a dragon slither all over her body

[Lauront]

How'd that femroe slider turn out?

Sadly, it turned out to be a missed/wasted opportunity.

[Rokke]

Pretty safe to assume that very few suggestions made on the forum (especially the English ones) make it to Yoshi P. The Male Viera/Female Hrothgar may have been the exception, but not the rule.

the missing genders threads made it to yoshi's desk because the thread was massive with a ton of likes. a reoccurring issue with the EN forum is that we have 727392 little topics about the same thing and all of them get a handful of replies/likes before they slide off the front page instead of making one big thread showing off the interest.

[Falar]

I'm fine with the gender lock not being a priority to remove if it means more focus on traditionally masculine gear for male characters and traditionally feminine gear for female characters. It's what the majority of people seem to want, after all - and I'd rather not see the game's fashion trends dictated purely by whoever happens to be the the loudest, most vocal voice within the community.

Well said.

[HollowedDoll]

They aren't going to start policing what 2 people say in whispers and private chats, that's just stupid.

"Breaking news, FF14 GMs go on a sting operation into a seedy FC house!"

Ridiculous.

Now, go advertise your brothel in /shout in Limsa and see how long it takes for you to get banned.

Don't project, I was simply explaining what they might have meant.

[Shurrikhan]

Look at how they’ve done with caster and healer gear. Even the male ones are incredibly feminine. I’d rather not have that be a thing. Hell, the 2b gear isn’t genderlocked but it’s still heavily feminine and got no male alternative. I’d rather they spend more time coming up with more masculine male glams than trying to come up with ungenderlocked glams that appease a 1%

I think access to pants over dresses alone would appeal to more than a mere 1%. The inverse... maybe that low.

[Soge01]

the missing genders threads made it to yoshi's desk because the thread was massive with a ton of likes. a reoccurring issue with the EN forum is that we have 727392 little topics about the same thing and all of them get a handful of replies/likes before they slide off the front page instead of making one big thread showing off the interest.

So we just gotta keep those two threads that are focused on male aesthetics up and going? I hope that will work because I'd rather avoid making a Twitter account just to help get Yoshi-P and his crew's attention over this. Twitter...doesn't seem like a safe place to be on at all.

[Amnmaat]

So we just gotta keep those two threads that are focused on male aesthetics up and going? I hope that will work because I'd rather avoid making a Twitter account just to help get Yoshi-P and his crew's attention over this. Twitter...doesn't seem like a safe place to be on at all.

It's a very predatory place. Any information you put up there is rife for the picking; even simple stuff like your FF character, etc
Hopefully it goes the way of the dodo soon.

Why have an official forum when all your energy is spent reading random twitter posts which might not even belong to real FF players. Much less FF players of said region.

[Theodric]

So we just gotta keep those two threads that are focused on male aesthetics up and going? I hope that will work because I'd rather avoid making a Twitter account just to help get Yoshi-P and his crew's attention over this. Twitter...doesn't seem like a safe place to be on at all.

Other alternatives are to get lucky with a question on the subject during an open Q&A session. I managed to get a couple in over the years, though it's not reliable.

I suppose trying to get a prominent streamer to speak up on the matter could work, though I don't stream myself as I could be easily identified if I did show my face and streamers don't seem to really bother interacting with people who do not stream themselves...