Why people are upset with the race announcement

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03-23-2019, 12:38 PM
AmethystDusk

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03-23-2019, 12:56 PM
Floortank

People promise themselves all kinds of features and then hype it up themselves, then act like a promise was broken when their collective delusions turn out not to be true.
03-23-2019, 01:01 PM
Nandalowell

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Originally Posted by Floortank

People promise themselves all kinds of features and then hype it up themselves, then act like a promise was broken when their collective delusions turn out not to be true.

To be fair, when asked about male Viera they played coy like, "We've got another fanfest! We need to save some news for Tokyo!" .. It really would have been better to down play it just a bit instead of adding hype. Can't be too hard on people for holding out hope.. Even if we should know better by now, haha.
03-23-2019, 01:05 PM
BiffWellington

I just don't understand the decision. This game started with some one-sex races, and they did away with all that due to player demand. And now we're back to having one-sex races again?
03-23-2019, 01:07 PM
Roda

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Originally Posted by AmethystDusk

Announcing a whole new race is good, don't get me wrong

Problem is, they didn't announce a whole new race. They announced half of one.

@everyone saying "lol they never said male viera y u hype urself up over a thing that they didn't say they would do"
Because they set the expectation with 2.0 when they unlocked the muscular female highlander and female roegadyn, and the antisocial and low birthrate male miqo'te.
If it's wrong to expect the fastest growing mmo to live up to the standards it set when it rebooted due to numerous design failures, then I don't want to be right.
03-23-2019, 01:08 PM
zegota

Also, there's a massive problem with the specifics of how they gender locked the races. Making the "thin, sexy, scantilly-clad" race women-only, while making the "big, strong, fierce" race male-only is a really bad look.
03-23-2019, 01:11 PM
Vanitas

I'm pretty sure most of them are upset because they can't run around with a bunny boy in stockings or a speedo afk dancing in limsa or heavy erp in ul'dah. Or something.
03-23-2019, 01:12 PM
Roda

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Originally Posted by zegota

Also, there's a massive problem with the specifics of how they gender locked the races. Making the "thin, sexy, scantilly-clad" race women-only, while making the "big, strong, fierce" race male-only is a really bad look.

IT'S A REALLY BAD LOOK
03-23-2019, 01:12 PM
Enla

Because everyone is different and thus has differing opinions on the direction they wished the game would take?
03-23-2019, 01:13 PM
Zumi

I am fine with it myself. I think it is ok they are doing something different.
03-23-2019, 01:13 PM
RikkCavalier

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Originally Posted by AmethystDusk

To everyone saying that people shouldn't be cynical and should stop whining at not getting bunny boys and that they should be glad they got a new race:

The problem is that they played it up from the get-go while knowing there was so much hype, they ignored it on purpose which brought attention to it, it built up the hype for them and then once they finally address it after hype has built up so much, they deconfirm it and instead announce a new race out of nowhere.

Announcing a whole new race is good, don't get me wrong, but they should have deconfirmed bunny boys in the previous fanfest so people had time to digest it instead of letting the hype build up only to deconfirm it afterwards right before the new reveal

I am glad there's a new race we weren't expecting but it's hard for people to be happy in the moment after they just deconfirm something they built up to, people aren't cynical or whatnot, SE just did a bad job with marketing.

ALL of this ↑ and because especially they've already made the mistake before.