Tempering with the lore of your own game is different than tempering with the lore of 4 much older games.
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Supported, I don’t like gender locks
not everything is about ERP some people do just want male viera for something different to try out or just to fill in missing gender i just want cool woodland rabbit warriors (if they are not them i will be ok just because it fills in missing genders),
now we have heard about male viera being a thing in Final Fantasy XII Ultimania Omega which was a book about ff12 in 2006
same year ff12 was release so viera have never really been a female only race.
Just a reminder that Miqo'te were previously the only race unavailable to male characters, and now male Miqo'te are played FAR more than the other previously male-only races: Highlander and Roegadyn.
The devs thought we would rather play Highlanders and Roes than male Miqo'te, and they were wrong. They don't really seem to be in touch with what people want to play, imo.
This has my support.
I don't want to see the lore of the Viera broken because a vocal minority of unsavory characters has decided to try to bully a dev team out of their vision, for the sake of RP and (I quote) "Diversity and inclusion".
Mine is feedback too.
Stick to your decision, maybe fix the Male Hrothgar with an actual unique model.
One way of taking it is that the devs are less interested in rather esoteric political arguments on the matter (particularly this nonsense with the "right side of history" vibe to it) and more interested to simply gauge demand for the race. I for one agree with him that the political arguments should stay out of the equation.
They are likely to be much more interested in metrics like whether this would affect a purchase than being preached at.
I mean, the lore doesn't prohibit them, anymore than mooncat lore prohibits male mooncats or the WoL as a WHM. It's a nonstarter. Regarding your comment about Zenos, I'm not sure how female Viera don't pose the same issue. It's a weak line of reasoning, and the devs don't seem to be dogmatically basing this on the lore... which doesn't even make the argument you think it does.