Gender locked race?

[frostmagemari]

People were not upset over the lack of those races having multiple genders.
Many of the 1.0 ideas were fine, so saying “all the decisions” is questionable.

Yup. They made a lot of good decisions in xiv 1.0 so many good decisions and ideas that the game was a complete and total failure and had to be rebuilt from the ground up to be a totally different game.
As for people being upset at the lack of gender choices.. They weren't happy about the lack of choice, but 1.0 had much larger problems that drove 99% of it's player base away so it was a minor issue all things considered (since even back in XI, people found it stupid that male Mithra weren't a thing.)

I just want to contribute one thing to the entire discussion:
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The problem with that is.. SQE made the lore and mechanic limitations for XIV; And if they don't have the male Viera, this isn't "we have to make X mechanic fit in with lore to stay faithful", this is a case of "we're creating X mechanic, and going to use lore to excuse it"