What is the benefit

[heynowjose]

If you didn't want male viera that's fine don't play one. But what is the benefit of gender locking races? Surely we learned our lesson from 1.0 when Roegadyn and Miqo'te were gender locked.

So why?
Obviously it's not "because of the lore" lets face it this game has a hundred and one ways it destroys lore and emersion on a daily basis. Yokai watch, Monster Hunter mount, ect.

So other than pissing people off what's the benefit?

[Canadane]

Because why not?

[SonKevin]

Lesson? What lesson was there? The only reason why they "unlocked" the genders was because they needed more hooks for ARR and it was super easy to just make new genders than new races.

[van_arn]

I look forward to not seeing bunny boys running around everywhere, honestly. Catbois are enough, thanks.

Tigerbois are pretty cool, though. Insert skooma joke.

[Selova]

Imagine being surprised at gender locked races in a asian mmorpg.

[BubblyBoar]

The benefit is half the workload with only 1 gender for 1 of each race. The same "benefit" as BLU being limited.

[Gwenorai]

Eh, don't bother asking dude. It's open season on salt - so you're gona get the 'lul get over it scrub' posts.

[Penthea]

I would be less annoyed about the gender locking if we didn't essentially get a second miqo race that happens to be on steroids.

Don't get me wrong, I think ronso/hrothgar look cool. But we have a cat race already. And as a female cat race player I am so disappointed I can't be a big female cat. I'm stuck in the trope of being a petite female if I want to have bestial features.

[Vahlnir]

They initially said that Viera would probably be the last race they'd ever make...it's obvious now that they were lying. Hrothgar gives us 2 new races but with 2 different clans. It would have been more work to do 2 genders for each I'm guessing. It was probably either Hrothgar or male Viera (which I'm sure more people actually wanted) so they decided to gamble and add 2 races instead of just one. It also throws a bone to the people who wanted a more bestial race to play as. It was a risky move that may or may not pay off. Time will tell.

[DarkDedede]

Not sure what the big mystery is. I'd say it's pretty simple. Implementing half the genders requires half the work/effort/budget. There is nothing "locked" if there was no work done to begin with.