Gender locked race?

[Rokke]

Im going to ignore the beast tribe comments because I don’t want to blow out my back from that reach.

We're about to get at least female Viera playable, who are severely seclusive and not seen anywhere else in the world until they're going to be everywhere come 5.0, including the 2.0 story. We also haven't even been to, or see half of the world of Hydalaen, there's a whole lot out there we have no clue about until SE puts it into their game.

Indeed, they were very secretive and not seen anywhere until patch 4.5, when we got a preview of what was to come with Fran in the same vein that Yugiri was a preview of what was to come.

Except for all intents and purposes, they did. Their inclusion in Heavensward as a playable race offered virtually nothing new to the game's experiencable story. No story acknowledged them, even when you encounter the few other Au Ra that were present in Heavensward (Sidurgu and Mide, for example.) They don't go majorly out of their way. There was no precedence before, and Yugiri talked almost nothing about her race, only that she had a funny tail and ears/horns.

Except they didn’t. Again, We knew she was something else. We knew where she came from. We knew she and her people were on the run. We knew they opposed Garlemald. That is not existing in a void. That is not completely 100% in the dark. She did not exist before the scene of her stepping off the boat, I will give you that. But she did exist before Au Ra were revealed. There are no “But!”s: She existed before the reveal.

A new race absolutely does not need to have any kind of build up whatsoever. There's no magical rule set forth by word of god that this has to happen. The most negative impact of just dropping a race without build up is some minor lore inconsisties and that's it.

And yet they went out of their way to introduce Viera- a tshirt, a raid, a nod in the lore book. Were they secretive or more vocal about both races I would be more inclined to believe 2 races. But to purposely whip up the fans at the start of SBR’s media circuit only to pull the rug out from under them? That is hard to wrap my head around.

It's very rare they take full on live Q&A, with people lining up. Almost every one of their Q&A has been collecting questions before hand and picking which to answer. But of course he's going to be asked about them inevitably. And he is constantly asked about plenty of things consistently, like Egi glamours etc. You seem to think that just because he'll be dogged in the future regarding it means he won't do it? He didn't get his position because he was afraid of saying no. If he does a new male only race, he will have his own justification for doing so, and that will be what matters in the end. He's not afraid to stand to his convictions and decisions, even in the face of blowback. Especially over something as minimally damaging to the game as a genderlocked race would be.


Proof? Because that looked like a straight up, just walk up and ask your question type of Q&A. Show me people screening them and turning away people

Redshirt guy posts on reddit, he is user/Dontinquire. He lied to the guy who was handling the mic: “I told the screener I was going to ask about their motivation for making the game and how the idea came about.” [1] [2] [3]

There's not much of a way to screen people in real time, especially when they can lie about what they're going to ask.

Thats wholly the point I was making. The norm at western events = live events where you either raise your hand and a person with a mic approaches you and screens you question before handing you the mic or you line up, a person with a mic screens your question, and then hands you the mic. Thats how the original bunny outfit got through. Thats how someone asked for peaches. Thats how someone spoke about his account being frozen because of mogstation issues with his bank. At NA’s fanfest there wasn’t anything stopping me from saying “I want to request a hot air balloon mount” to the screener and asking for a butt slider if they passed me a direct line to Yoshi.