Missing Genders: A request for Male Miqote, Female Highlander, and Female Roegadyn

I would love to see male MQ, and female HH and RG! :)
One of my biggest disappointments with this game was the amount of recycling they did from FFXI. If we could see new races altogether (i.e. not from FFXII or whatever), I'd be willing to start over, tbh.

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Originally Posted by Isanien

I would love to see male MQ, and female HH and RG! :)
One of my biggest disappointments with this game was the amount of recycling they did from FFXI. If we could see new races altogether (i.e. not from FFXII or whatever), I'd be willing to start over, tbh.

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You know you want an aquatic race. One of us... Well there's only one of us right now: Me. :P

To the best of my knowledge, no other MMO has included one, have they?

Perfect World

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

You know you want an aquatic race. One of us... Well there's only one of us right now: Me. :P

To the best of my knowledge, no other MMO has included one, have they?

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haha that doesn't sound like a bad idea at all... it makes me think of the Zora from Zelda XD
..would be doubly awesome if they could actually swim! lol :o

male miqote YES PLEASE! And the option to change for those of us who created a female one because we had no other option :/

no female RG though. that goes against the lore if its anything like xi's.

Majidah it isn't though.

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...JXV4xKxV2g.jpg

thats from in game.

How about no, that would just be an ugly mess.

Roeg women could be buff and pretty you never know.. if SE does add them i dont expect them to make them something replusive and hurtful to the eye

A female Highlander would look like China -.-;

Wasted time, effort, and space. They already said that they have no plans to release these races. Did you really need to post this again, Zolom? -_-

That is actually NOT what they said.

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Originally Posted by Majidah

male miqote YES PLEASE! And the option to change for those of us who created a female one because we had no other option :/

no female RG though. that goes against the lore if its anything like xi's.

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On the main FFXIV website it says Roegadyns subsist as "fishermen and women" so a female roegadyn is lore, I wouldn't play one lol. Real life female who plays miqot'e for life.

This is just the right amount of stupid I expected to find on these forums...

Broken game? Nah man we need to resolve this issue with missing races.

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Originally Posted by Gath

A female Highlander would look like China -.-;

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Chyna the wrestler?

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Originally Posted by Kurokikaze

This is just the right amount of stupid I expected to find on these forums...

Broken game? Nah man we need to resolve this issue with missing races.

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You're right. What's really conducive to problem solving is vitriolic posts that wastes everyone's time.

No to male Miqo'te.

No to female Roegadyn.

No to female Highlander.

I'd go on a huge lore tangent about it and why it would be terrible but I'm just not really in that mood so I'll just be short and concise.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

No to male Miqo'te.

No to female Roegadyn.

No to female Highlander.

I'd go on a huge lore tangent about it and why it would be terrible but I'm just not really in that mood so I'll just be short and concise.

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But there's already lore within the game that establishes their existence. If you need some proof, just check out some earlier pages in the thread.

I don't think anyone here is clamoring for SE to focus on that and ONLY that right now(hell we're not even saying that they should focus on it at all for the foreseeable future). We are however keeping the issue open, so that maybe the reshuffled crew might say "Hey now... Maybe this is worth looking into."

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Originally Posted by Malakhim

But there's already lore within the game that establishes their existence. If you need some proof, just check out some earlier pages in the thread.

I don't think anyone here is clamoring for SE to focus on that and ONLY that right now(hell we're not even saying that they should focus on it at all for the foreseeable future). We are however keeping the issue open, so that maybe the reshuffled crew might say "Hey now... Maybe this is worth looking into."

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Their existence yes, but I also believe it was mentioned in the lore (and in-game directly from some NPCs) that male Miqo'te are extremely rare. Just having several thousand male Miqo'te pop up would already ruin that. That would be like adding several dozen male Gerudo in Zelda: OoT.

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Originally Posted by Rjain

Their existence yes, but I also believe it was mentioned in the lore (and in-game directly from some NPCs) that male Miqo'te are extremely rare. Just having several thousand male Miqo'te pop up would already ruin that. That would be like adding several dozen male Gerudo in Zelda: OoT.

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...Maybe they were on holiday.

Hell that's how they worked the goblins into the game...

I'm perfectly A-OK with a million Male miqotes suddenly popping up XD we already had no male mithra's in XI ..Miqote are a different race and therefor should have a different lore..Let it rain cat men!

why is this such a issue to NOT have them? anything that gives the players more options is good, if you don't like 'em then don't play as one.

I personally don't like the way the midlander males look so I play as a highlander, but thats MY choice, just because I don't like the midlanders doesn't mean that I think that race should be thrown out completely.

hell, I'd re-roll a female Roegedyn just 'cause it would be different.

Thank you~ some people just like to try and ruin everyone elses good times.. its the internet it happens XD

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Originally Posted by Shiro-Koizumi

Thank you~ some people just like to try and ruin everyone elses good times.. its the internet it happens XD

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Haters gonna Hate.

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Originally Posted by Natabant

ya im also all for adding new races, ever since i first started FFXI i always wondered why there was no male mithra and was pretty annoyed that i couldnt be one, so i just started as a hume and by the time i got lvl 75 i was already tired of it, so id rather not be a hume/hyur again in FFXIV and lalafell is kinda boring too lol. so ya if they added male miqote and female roegadyn i think it would not only add a whole new element to the game, but it would also bring in new people and old people that quit who wanted to see new races.

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well reason was no males in 11 was because according to their culture male mithra stayed at home to raise the children while females ventured out into the world.

same with galka not having any females, that was because they were asexual in the sense that they reproduced thru rebirth.

not sure on the cultures of the current races though

some of these comments are fun to read XD

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Originally Posted by xneonobodyx

well reason was no males in 11 was because according to their culture male mithra stayed at home to raise the children while females ventured out into the world.

same with galka not having any females, that was because they were asexual in the sense that they reproduced thru rebirth.

not sure on the cultures of the current races though

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They're not the same race/lore Male Miqotes and Female Roegs have been mentioned in the game itself Roegs reproduce like humes/Hyurs

If male Miq'ote was in upon release I would of so played it, but if they add it now I would just be mad cause I would no way in hell restart my character. As for the other two, I do not really care, they can do w/e with them. <.<

i said before they should make an item that lets us switch race but lets us keep all our progress gear etc.. course knowing SE it'd be a paid for item XD

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Originally Posted by Goshzilla

Alright, alright, ALRIGHT I guess I'll have my female highlander do some low-level dun- OH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT.

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I've got some stuff a female highlander can do at low level.

Bah, the forum logout timer ate my original post and i don't feel like retyping it all. To put it succinctly:
-Opinions regarding whether or not this is an actual 'issue' may vary, but i hope most people reading these forums can agree that this is probably not a high priority issue
-Getting the game ready for prime time and out of 'perpetual beta test' state so it can start making money again should be the development team's priority
-Updates/modifications to the interface, battle system, armory system, party dynamics and game content are more likely to attract new and returning players than the addition of the missing race/gender combinations (i hope)
-And now a digression: If they want to introduce new race/gender combinations, couldn't they do that in an expansion or something later on, once the game is doing better? They could mark it as the rise of the 'humanist' movement...

"After all, you don't see the Hyur keeping half of their race locked up at home with the brats."
"The Lalafell don't do it either, you know."
"Can you be sure of that? How would you even be able to tell without seeing one naked? ...You haven't been looking at naked Lalafell, have you?"
"No! No, of course not. That's just... ugh... But there's also the Elezen-"
"And I suppose you're going to tell me now that you've actually seen an Elezen man?"
"..."

I love how people think this is a demand for them to be done right now before anything else gets completed. It isn't. Its a request for information asking if the plausibility of these options being released in the future at any time.

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

I love how people think this is a demand for them to be done right now before anything else gets completed. It isn't. Its a request for information asking if the plausibility of these options being released in the future at any time.

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Easy there; i didn't mean to offend, or imply that you are blowing this out of proportion, but adding new race/gender combinations would be no small undertaking. They would need to update all of the costume assets in the game and that would require a non-trivial investment of time and money. In my opinion, this is probably not something that would be a constructive use of either until much further down the road. If the developers share that opinion, or something like it, then they probably don't want to answer your question, even tentatively, until they can provide you with a satisfactory answer - and the only satisfactory answer they would be able to give you at this time would almost certainly be, 'We have no plans to implement that feature at this time.'

FFXI hasn't had these additions and I don't think FFXIV should have them. Besides, it's late in the ball game to ask for this. This isn't WoW where you can go to end game from scratch in one week.

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Originally Posted by Discordia

FFXI hasn't had these additions and I don't think FFXIV should have them. Besides, it's late in the ball game to ask for this. This isn't WoW where you can go to end game from scratch in one week.

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XI had lore that prevented them.

XIV has lore that makes you go "Wait where are they"

The lore says they are there, and they are not even visible as NPC's.

actually having visable npcs would be a step in the right direction.. i'd still prefer playable overall

I for one say YES to new races! ESPECIALLY male miqote! But if the new races were introduced. Give players a 1 time opportunity to reroll onto a new race and keep all their stats, armor, gil, etc. I would do it!!

I also want closure about this. Regarding the lore, it was NEVER stated that the male Miqo'te were exceptionally rare; you're confusing them with Mithras. The one thing we know about male Miqo'te is that they are as common as their female counterparts, except that they do not like socializing and being in company of other races. As for female Roegadyns, they are said to be beautiful and also very common.

So yes, yes. Give players options.

Please add male Miqo'te, female Roegadyns, and female highlander Hyur.

There's no reason for you not to have these as playable options.

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Originally Posted by Discordia

FFXI hasn't had these additions and I don't think FFXIV should have them. Besides, it's late in the ball game to ask for this. This isn't WoW where you can go to end game from scratch in one week.

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Late in the game? Hardly. The game is little more than an unofficial beta right now. While adding new playables is no doubt a low priority (and for good reason) right now, this is the perfect time to start the missing gender campaign because - with luck- SE will keep it in mind for a time when they can put the manpower towards implementing this.

By the bye, last I checked I'm playing FFXIV, not FFXI. This isn't the same game and the rules that apply to one game don't necessarily apply to the other.

Sign me up on Missing Genders campaign. This is an addition that could really enhance FFXIV.

like the OP said, there is an interview in which Tanaka said "Tanaka: Actually all of the design is ready, so we were planning to implement them into the game, however during the development process we had to put priority with what to put into the game, and due to the man power issue we had to give up implementing them into the beginning of the game. You will see them as an NPC, but it is not a race that you can choose at the beginning. We’ll see how it goes in the future, it might be a possiblity. We are still looking into it." so adding them to the game now shouldnt be too difficult, the thing that would take the longest is programming the code for all the weapons and gear for the new races, but since most of the gear in the game right now looks pretty much the same i bet they would be able to pull it off by ps3 release.