Disadvantage for male characters

[Heavenchild]

I think it's a bit wrong to call it a disadvantage. Call it unfair if you want but it's not exactly making your gameplay any worse off than ours.

For people who really love glamour, I think disadvantage is the right word. In general it's just 'unfair', yes.

[Heavenchild]

lol female alphinaud

This set is not genderlocked. The topic is about new items in the shop, that again can just be used by girls. And Alphinaud set has no genderlock. That's why I said Alphinaud (m/f).

[LeonKeyh]

Who the hell plays males in an MMO?

[Larirawiel]

Who the hell plays males in an MMO?

I would never do it! :O


Cheers

[Heavenchild]

When you speak purely about outfits, yeah. I guess I just didn't look hard enough... but a couple weeks ago when I was a male Miqo'te for a bit, none of the things I had stored in the dresser worked very well. Not to mention the fact that you can't swap out Mogstation items for their gender parallel as you can do for seasonal items. I probably didn't farm enough... but most of the things in my Dresser are level 1 glamour items and Job sets. It feels different from female where many items look quite nice and I can consider grabbing them with a Greed roll.

Don't get me started on the healer sets.

When I was a girl for a short time, I was surprised how different and good so many items suddenly looked. xD For example the Nier chestpieces or the neo-ishgard lv 80 sets. So well designed for girls. The male variants are compared most of the time kinda boring.

But I want to stay a male char. No matter how much SE forgets about them. As a male Viera it's double hard. No headpieces and less well designed pieces and less pieces in generell. :') But at least the male Viera look well designed in generell. So, who needs clothes!? Let's be naked or whatever. xD
I hope SE could be more fair. We will see what future brings.

Thank you all for your responses and I wish you all a nice day. : 3

[Jin-]

Depends on who views the designs. Some are better and some not. Imo nearly all of the tank sets look better on male and healer sets on female.

[Fredco191]

I kind of wanted Lyse's hairstyle, but for some reason, it's female exclusive despite Aymeric's being available to both genders.

[Haruka_R]

I kind of wanted Lyse's hairstyle, but for some reason, it's female exclusive despite Aymeric's being available to both genders.

Female hairstyle for females. You're better off asking for Estinien's new hairstyle. They are literally the same.

[Lukha]

You mean like all of the veteran rewards?

The other male outfits in game like the ff12 outfits?


Again, you are focusing solely on Mogstation outfits lol.

The KEY difference here is that what you're calling 'male' outfits here can still be equipped and worn by female characters, while the ones the OP complained about cannot be equipped by male characters at all.

Whether you subjectively like the aesthetic or not isn't relevant, you still have the option to use those items.
Male characters have objectively fewer items that they can use. This isn't up for debate, SE themselves have admitted it and taken steps to start fixing the problem by (slowly) removing gender locks on existing gear.

Unfortunately, no mogstation gear has been included in those unlocks as of yet, and people playing male characters understandably would like to know if and when that will change.

Female hairstyle for females. You're better off asking for Estinien's new hairstyle. They are literally the same.

And if we get Estinien's hairstyle it'll either be unisex or players with female characters will make a fuss until it gets made unisex, again.

[Mimilu]

I kind of wanted Lyse's hairstyle, but for some reason, it's female exclusive despite Aymeric's being available to both genders.

They probably don't want to deal with all the earless Hrothgars in Lyse ponytails. XD