Gender locked race?

[Rokke]

There's zero hints to the vast majority of things added in expansions. Where's the rule that everything has to have some hint to being added? Where was the hint of the Vath, Vanu Vanu, Kojin, Ananta, Namazu, Nu Mou, Pixies, Dwarves? These are all new races added to the game out of no-where with zero hints or clues leading up to them until they were straight up announced (in before they're somehow different because they're beast tribes).

Au Ra were implemented with a complete lack of lore and a complete lack of actual integration. All we had for them was that Yugiri was one and they were from the Far East (and a small mention in the Wind-Up Odin flavor text), and Sidurgu was from a group that came to Eorzea and got wiped out by Ishgardians. The majority of Au Ra lore for Heavensward came from Koji's naming convention post on the forums. We didn't get any kind of actual integration for Au Ra until the expansion AFTER Heavensward. A new unannounced race could be no different. We come across stuff all the time that hadn't existed to us before but the setting acts like they've been around the whole time.

Comparing beast tribes to playable races is a stretch. With Yugiri’s intro we were shown there is a race with a strange tail + horns/ears, that had a face unique enough where it might offput people who’d never seen it, that was from the Far East- a place that had lost badly in a recent skirmish with Garlemald. While we definitely didn’t know the various intricacies of all 51 tribes of Xaela, we did have a starting point. Then Au Ra were confirmed and we got to see what Yugiri might look like under her mask through the reveal art work. Then at a later fanfest we got to see in the game character creation screen, the subrace, the 3D models, the 3D models wandering Ishgard, etc.

Au Ra did not suddenly come into existence at the moment of their reveal.

And the announcement of a new race and that Viera+new race are genderlocked won't be addressed when it's announced? It couldn't possibly be why Yoshida is refusing to comment on if male viera are confirmed? That they have plans to go into more detail when they reveal something else?

Of course theres a possibility of something else. I just don't think it will play out with a something else, hence my comments in this thread.

It took a considerable time (years) to finally get the male bunny outfit put into the game, and it's rarely used. If anything that's a knock against it that despite people being vocal about it, doesn't mean it's something a majority of players want. And considering the majority of the time the Q&A's have their questions pre-screened, it's easy for him avoid having to deal with that question outside of direct interviews. And again, Blue Mage is going to be the same situation. He knows how to handle Q&A's and interviews, he's shown he's quite skilled and avoiding answering things or explaining his reasoning even if it's unpopular.

And after years of attempting to dodge the question we got the confirmation of bunny suits being in the works and then a few more years of being dogged about it's progress and they were revealed at the same con they were originally asked for.

In person requests started in the west and continued until JP and even Korea joined in. Prescreened questions are a thing, yes, but unless they plan only taking written in questions from this point on, its inevitable for a comment to slip through.

he was "prescreened" as well, after all.