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Real Talk: The Gender Imbalance in Mabi
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With all these dresses coming out I might not be the only giant wearing a dress everywhere anymore!
and sorry for the caps :c
It's really not a gender issue in my eyes, as guys are going to care about the way their characters look too. they also want their characters to look cool, I'm sure. Just more of a supply and demand thing because there are more girl characters, not girl players. Of course people will choose a F outfit over an M outfit if it sells better and faster. Of course people will chase items for their selling value or rarity. (This isn't exclusive to F outfits. See wings.) Etc.
The whole "girl outfits are nicer" is entirely subjective, though. I have plenty of outfits I prefer the guy version of. And they do get plenty of shorts. Same with the wing thing. Skirts I can see where you're coming from but we're getting more Eluned stuff albeit low drop rates.
Addressing the parts I have bolded
Number 1: I'm glad I'm not the only who thinks (and it most definitely true given evidence) that the Male to Female outfit RNG rate is rigged in favor of male outfits. Totally NOT cool!
Number 2: Shopping bags seriously need to be released instead of stickin' all the new stuff in gachas more people are more likely to buy shopping bags straight out instead of chancin' it on a gacha. And us ladies (and lady characters) are forced to shell out 20mil - 100mil gold to get 1 piece of an entire outfit. Nx needs to do somethin' about this unfair pricing. (Yes I know it sounds like I'm a a whining child, but my point is valid).
Number 3: Design quality differences between male and female outfits. Ok this one is a bit tricky. I like designin' costumes/clothes for in-game and in rl. Idk about other people, but male outfits are TONS harder to design than female outfits. I often run into the problem of an outfit I'm designin' lookin' like a slightly different than other existin' outfits. Like my Valentine Incubus Outfit. It was soooooo hard to make it look original w/o makin' it look like the exsitin' incubus outfits w/ a few new "accessory pieces/embellishments." Plus I was tryin' my best to not make it too frilly, nuthin' wrong with frilly on guys, but I've heard lotsa male characters/players complain about there not being enough non-frilly cool lookin' outfits for males. Though I will say this: The male version of the Brilluen outfit is WAAAAAAAAY better than the female version.
As long as they have a decent minority of people throwing hundreds of dollars at gacha this probably won't happen even if it would make players overall happier and earn them a more consistent flow of money.
Nexon doesn't control the prices of items in Mabi. They control gacha rates. It's unreasonable to expect a merchant to sell a rare item under what it's worth/what people are willing to pay. They do however, control the gacha rates in relation to this. But again, see point one. (Sorry if this sounds snappy, that's not my intent. I just understand your pain all too well but I'm very cynical concerning these issues since they've been in effect long term.)