I'm all for letting creators make what they want to make. But surely it's pretty clear how "the creators didn't want to make games with women in them" is sexist. Probably not maliciously so, but then most of the white people in '50s America weren't malicious with their racism either, they just assumed the attitudes they had been raised with - that black people weren't as capable/intelligent/moral as white people.

Same deal here. It's just ignorance, but it's still problematic. Being an artist doesn't give you a free pass.

Quote Originally Posted by Hannibal_Khan
You want more balanced playable characters? Then tell me which characters are changed to achieve this
Easy. All of them. Any of them. I cannot think of a single character off the top of my head from the series where it was 'important' that they were male. Perhaps the male half of relationships? So Cecil, Squall, Zidane, Steiner, Tidus, Balthier - there may be particular reasons you wouldn't change those. Perhaps Irvine because being a gross, sleazy dude was an important character trait.

Anyone else though? Swap 'em, change the pronouns and you're done. I can't imagine any of their characters would have been diminished by that.