Gender locked race?

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It's one thing to something regarding this with BlueMage which can be changed in the future by giving them an actual skill tree - I can honestly see this in the future and I hope it happens as limited BLU sucks.

I mean, why does this not apply to Viera? The vast majority of people who asked for viera were expecting the female viera we are getting. Who is to say releasing them as a genderlocked race isn't a way for SE to fully gauge the demand for male Viera exclusively to be added in the future?

It let's them add the most requested race (predominantly female viera) which is a sure bet to be a popular race, whereas male viera may be more of a gamble.

We sure had a vocal minority clamoring for male bunny outfits, only for them to be hardly seen actually being worn once people finally got them, even on servers you'd expect to see more.

It's another thing in this day and age - and I can't believe I'm saying this because eugh it's SJW as all heck - to do gender race blocks on a race that has male and female counterparts. Holding a race hostage to one specific gender is lame; it's gross - and doesn't belong in this day and age. If they didn't want to add males then they should have gone back and rewrote the lore for FF14 to have it that males don't exist period and that they reproduce asexually. I actually despise gender locked races just like I despise gender locked classes - I'm looking at you Black Desert.

Yet black desert has had a pretty solid amount of success. Even though it's both gender and class locked. Tera is another example of an MMO that's had sustainability despite gender locking, as does many other online games.

I'll give you an example of a only female race that was done correctly; Asari from Mass Effect. All female biologically. Most people are fine with that because it's there lore - they reproduce with others regardless of gender and produce female children. No one is up in arms about this, no one is screaming; because that's how they were made.

Don't you think this is now going against your own argument? Either genderlocking is bad, or its fine as long as there's lore to support it?* So SE only has to establish lore reasons such as all the male viera dying in a certain inferno shown to us. Or maybe they all gathered and summoned a primal and are all tempered, thus unplayable.

If I wanted to play a biotic commando in Mass Effect multiplayer I would be forced to play a female asari. How is that different than Black Deserts?