Gender locked race?

[Shippuu]

The former I would count if you could point me to it.

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Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

[Gemina]

I wouldn't worry about there not being a male Veira due to lore reasons. If this was truly the case, we wouldn't have playable male Miqo'te. Even if for some reason they are not around upon 5.0 release, they will be soon after.

What gets me is why wait until Japanfest to unveil them and leaving us all to speculate? Especially if they are indeed planning to implement them into FFXIV. Even if they don't have playable avatars to showcase, they can show concept art and talk about how they will be around despite the lore.

Also, why keep developing lore that makes it difficult to bring in a certain gender for a particular race? Just stop it already. I grow pretty tired of males and females working against each other instead of together. Both inside and outside gaming.

[Lauront]

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Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

Thanks.

I suppose we'll see soon enough how strong this "maybe" is.

[Gwenorai]

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Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

Was this before or after the concept art? Not that it matters much since Yoshida still mentioned that he thought the concept art of the Viera was still too cute for him. Then again, we have the whole situation regarding the bunny suit. And now we have Dancer which is pretty feminine unless the style of dancing differs between male and females. I think having cute bunny men is probably the least of his concerns.

And aye, it only mentions those two specific clans - Feol Viera are halfbreeds and even rarer. If I remember from tactics they lived in a specific area; I mean, they were all in this specific area to the point that they could be wiped out in one attack. If went by the Dramaturge, it's likely he wouldn't have heard about them. But it's extremely wishful thinking! I hope they add more customisation rather than different skin tone, but that would be too much to ask for since Au'ra are pretty much in the same boat. Different skin tones/scale/horn colouration.

[Lauront]

The statements are from 2013, so before the lead up to HW, which is when the art came about, which would place it around 2015 (probably conceived before then.)

It's a question of whether he's aware of the anticipation around this and dragging it out for that reason, or whether they genuinely are working on a male-only race. I don't take the leaks to be definitive on this, as that leak was the last one and also the most ambiguous.

[Shougun]

Was this before or after the concept art? Not that it matters much since Yoshida still mentioned that he thought the concept art of the Viera was still too cute for him. Then again, we have the whole situation regarding the bunny suit. And now we have Dancer which is pretty feminine unless the style of dancing differs between male and females. I think having cute bunny men is probably the least of his concerns.

And aye, it only mentions those two specific clans - Feol Viera are halfbreeds and even rarer. If I remember from tactics they lived in a specific area; I mean, they were all in this specific area to the point that they could be wiped out in one attack. If went by the Dramaturge, it's likely he wouldn't have heard about them. But it's extremely wishful thinking! I hope they add more customisation rather than different skin tone, but that would be too much to ask for since Au'ra are pretty much in the same boat. Different skin tones/scale/horn colouration.

Before, that was 2013, the FATE in Tokyo event was in 2015 (hosted on nico nico).

I would suggest that if Yoshi-P didn't like male Viera because they were cute that male Feol tiny bunny would be a major offense lol. Of course he could have changed his mind. To me another lion race has more info supporting it than a little bunny race, neither are confirmed or impossible though.

Edit: ahah I got beat to the info. oh well.

[Gwenorai]

Before, that was 2013, the FATE in Tokyo event was in 2015 (hosted on nico nico).

I would suggest that if Yoshi-P didn't like male Viera because they were cute that male Feol tiny bunny would be a major offense lol. Of course he could have changed his mind. To me another lion race has more info supporting it than a little bunny race, neither are confirmed or impossible though.

Edit: ahah I got beat to the info. oh well.

Haha! I will protest by switching to bara cat, wear a bunny suit and be dancer main!
Cute? Of course not! It will be a manly display of testosterone.

[Shippuu]

And now we have Dancer which is pretty feminine unless the style of dancing differs between male and females.

While it's not unreasonable that they might do different animations between the genders for dancers (after all, all the classes have different battle poses and victory pose emotes depending on gender). I think the more likely option is that they would opt for a flavor of dancer that is more gender neutral, one that isn't overly feminine or masculine.

I hope they add more customisation rather than different skin tone, but that would be too much to ask for since Au'ra are pretty much in the same boat. Different skin tones/scale/horn colouration.

Most sub clans are mostly differentiated by skin tones, Hyur and Lalafell being the exceptions. Outside of that I wouldn't expect too much to differentiate viera outside of minor details like facial tattoos/markings.

[wereotter]

Was this before or after the concept art? Not that it matters much since Yoshida still mentioned that he thought the concept art of the Viera was still too cute for him. Then again, we have the whole situation regarding the bunny suit. And now we have Dancer which is pretty feminine unless the style of dancing differs between male and females. I think having cute bunny men is probably the least of his concerns.

Dancer is still unconfirmed... also Yoshi's statement pre-Heavensward regarding male viera basically are mute at this point when you consider they've had another two years to work in the design and see if they can't get something better. It's not like they started creating female viera and just threw up their hands and said "welp, I guess they'll never be not cute. Better just give up"

[Crushnight]

Personally i think the Midlander/Highlander type of difference between clans will be the only one as it would be twice the amount of work then just skin tone to add a new race with that much difference between their clans.