Gender locked race?

[Roda]

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, however, I can see why they would gender lock the Viera race. This would be because very few male Viera actually exist and they live in seclusion the majority of their lives. It would break immersion and their own lore to have a ton of Male Viera running around.

Moonkeepers.

Yet, thanks to SE understanding that people playing the character they want to play is more important than made up lore that isn't real and is designed as an excuse to be lazy/cheap, nearly half my male friends play moonkeeper males.

Remember adventurers are a rare breed too. Special members of their races that were gifted with the echo and set out to murderfy some gods.


Hell miqo'te are LITERALLY supposed to be the least populated race in eorzea, yet there's no queue to make one when they're one of the most popular player races.

You can't really control the players' choice of race and gender combination. However, FFXI did make a gender-locked race before. Two, actually. Galka were males only while Mithra were female only. Mithra having Viera's stipulation that males were rare and basically kept in villages for breeding.

They did the same thing with xiv 1.0, and decided it was real dumb when making arr and fixed it.