Stuck in backwards age of gender locked classes
The entire reason why animations and combat feel smooth in the game is because they use individual skeletons to rig for animations and making ‘the opposite gender’ for the same class is basically as much work as creating another completely new class. So it’s a lot of work. I’d rather have 20 different classes that are gender locked than 10 classes that have both genders.
uh to make a new class, you have to create a model, create animations, create a lot of skins (level1 -tier 3), create skills and change a lot of text on msq, to do all that you need animators, class testers, model creators… To translate to portuguese you need portuguese translators and to change the text of all things on the game. So yeah you interfere with different things, and sectors of Smilegate.
lol that has nothing to do with genderlocking and everything to do with the quality of their artists and animators. You can get the same results without spending as much time making everything from scratch. Fact is that genderlocking classes in KR/JPN games creates more work for them in the long run, especially if they plan on going back and making the opposite gender for each class. Like they are in this case.
Make no mistake, I think their artists are top-notch. Their process is the only thing in question. Doesn’t really effect us, but their artists sure stay busy.
Why does genderlock matter in the first place? If you dont see gender, but only people, it doesnt make a difference right? Thats the most non sexist thing i could think about lol
Different people have different preferences, that’s why. Though, there are really only 3 categories in this game: Sexy, Furry, Edgy.
I wonder if sg is like “damn, why did we publish in NA/EU?” 
I’m a girl and I want to play as hot guys, but unfortunately my favorite classes are female only 
I think alot of people don’t understand why the do gender lock in the first place, I’m not defending it, but the main reason is because the development time for non gender lock gets exponentially higher and higher without it.
Just as a quick example, in FF14 there are lets say 8 races, all with other genders, so 16* different shape character rigs. If you wanna implement a new class, lets say Reaper in FF14, and the Reaper can be played on any race, you need to separately rig all the animations for every model, meaning for 1 class, you have 16x the workload. These kind of things can’t easily be transferred even though the models even look similar.
Maintaining non genderlock-ed classes is also a huge problem in the long run, cause overtime if you have so many races in FF14, if you wanna implement 1 new hairstyle, yup its 16x the workload. New skin? also 16x cause you want all races to be able to equip the skin, etc.
In LA, 1 class being 1 “model type” means you only need to do the animations 1 time, every new class that comes out just do that animation once. In LA actually the amount of model types is quite few, total of 8 (warrior m, sorc f, artist f, martial f/m, gunner m/f, assassin f), so workload is way less meaning faster content generally speaking…
“Removing genderlock”, is not as simple as pushing a button, to create a new female berserker, means actually doing all the animations, model and rig again, which is abit a benefit cause that is why Striker and Wardancer can be different as well, cause everything needed to be redo anyway.
Idk if people notice but most skins in the game are actually “unique model” bound, as in a female martial artist can share all costumes, yes because they all have same body type, not for any other reason that its bound in such a weird way.
All of that is to say, sometimes its not that the devs wanna purposely enforce gender lock for no reason, but its that gender locking has very practical benefits in terms of dev time, so some devs just go with that.
Thing is - It’s not gender “lock”. If you wanna make entire new animations and 3d models /meshes for people that are uncomfortable to play a role in the role playing game. I would rather have a completely new class. If you don’t wanna play “wrong gender” class it’s a self imposed problem that doesn’t exist anywhere but in your head. I don’t think they should care for that at all.
Can’t wait to play it ! In 2024
Its gendered locked because its cheaper and for some reason Korean’s don’t seem to have ever cared.