I'm a Premium member since forever, and I was delighted when semi-regular gifts got offered for Premium members. They often were from a home/garden or gadget category, which was perfectly fine. Later, when the Lab sought collaborations with popular designers and released designer branded gifts, they became more fashion and accessory oriented, but as such, still catered to all genders, with the collaboration partners usually offering 1 gift for female AND male avatars.

This is what I expected from the inaugural event at ACCESS, but I got dearly disappointed.

The number of participating designers was impressive, the number of gifts that could be used with male avatars was not. It was not even close to the roughly 40% in previous installments, but more in the range of 1-digit percentages.

As a paying Premium member for almost 2 decades, with those gifts by now included among the officially announced perks of a membership, I felt duped. Sure, I did not become Premium because of those gifts. And I would stay Premium even if those gifts would vanish. But if you say (paraphrased) 'Premium members get cool gifts every now and then', then you should make sure that ALL Premium members should get those gifts.

I'm not even expecting 50% (or 100%, like when the gifts were not primarily fashion items). SL is a rather feminime world when it comes to fashion, but I would have hoped for at least 30%, better 40%, of the gifts being usable for male avatars.

And yes, the irony of suddenly being the disadvantaged gender does not escape me. You're preaching to the choir here. I have my doubts though that this was an intentional message, and merely assume an oversight, or negligence.

So, please, more male fashion, or more gifts - like before - from gadget, landscaping, home and garden, vehicles, etc.

Thank you!