Please Stop Genderlocking Gear

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I'll just reuse my own words:

[...]And also please please PLEASE. Let it be known that I do NOT want a unisex gear! I want to have options to wear both variants of gears!! You know what’s better? Make 3 types: M, F, and Unisex. Now you have 3 options to pick!

They won’t do that, but just putting that one out because the devs really love to misinterpret “We want the option to wear both male & female clothing” as “So you want one unisex gear!!”.

Reasoning is simple: those who want to use other variants can happily do so. Those who had no interest in doing so can carry on as per usual. Choosing to make unisex gears tbh felt more like a way for devs to cut corner in my eyes than anything else, but I don't think that's the thread's main focus. Tangential? Sure.

[Ajisaii]

I think you guys are overreacting.

[Supersnow845]

The only type of genderlocking they should even consider is very slight model tweaks just to fit different body proportions of female and male characters.

Like compare the shisui konohama of aiming/scouting/healing to the 2B leggings on males. Both are going for the “speedo” look but one is built for male body’s and one is built for female bodies that males can wear

If they directly ported the current female model of the gear onto males it would have the same weird body proportions as 2B on males. But that doesn’t mean you give males ugly ARR levelling pants instead, it means you slightly alter the proportions of the male speedo portion to make it look it good on males

[Wyssahtyn]

probably too much cost for a dev team with apparently so little manpower.

[Zakuyia]

I think you guys are overreacting.

Your literally gonna say that after seeing how the gear in daentrail looks.......damn ignorance is bliss and i know your happy to continue living in this blissful state unaware of the things that go on around you.

[Ajisaii]

Your literally gonna say that after seeing how the gear in daentrail looks.......damn ignorance is bliss and i know your happy to continue living in this blissful state unaware of the things that go on around you.

Thanks for proving my point.

[PercibelTheren]

probably too much cost for a dev team with apparently so little manpower.

I genuinely wonder if this is an excuse or actually the truth. And if it is true, I just don't understand that decision on SE's part. XIV is by far their biggest cash cow. They literally have a golden goose and they're starving it. Makes no sense to me but I'm not a business exec or investor, I guess.

[Saraide]

I genuinely wonder if this is an excuse or actually the truth. And if it is true, I just don't understand that decision on SE's part. XIV is by far their biggest cash cow. They literally have a golden goose and they're starving it. Makes no sense to me but I'm not a business exec or investor, I guess.

I dont think it really matters wether it's the truth or just an excuse, they reason for both is bad management.

[EdenElsewhere]

Finally out of the gay baby jail... and somehow this thread is still going.

[Laerune]

At the end of the day, FFXIV is fiction, so what is wrong with allowing players to dress up their characters like they want?