Gender locked race?

[Roda]

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

Well ok to be absolutely fair, calling them "new races" isn't really accurate.
The Kul Tiran humans would count, as well as maybe the Zandalari trolls. But all of the other allied races are just old races with new textures, faces hairs, and voices. The animations and bodies are identical to their old counterparts (and those two are typically the most time consuming things to implement, at least when you don't actually have to sculpt much for normal mapping).

Though they did create the Vulpera and Sethrak that ARE basically the same as two new player races, except they made them npc only for some reason.

WOW already at my post limit =.=

Crappy coding and a game based on spaghetti pudding of a code where adding essential features require a massive effort.
This and some archaic Japanese moral codes that working on a silly bunny outfit took years because of the staff feeling uneasy?
Unless the interviews were a lie ofc.

To be fair (again), WoW's code probably isn't that clean either. It's reaching, what, it's 14th year now?
But that story about the devs being too cowardly to put a male character in a bunny suit despite putting a female in one just fine is really freaking sad.

[Daralii]

Well ok to be absolutely fair, calling them "new races" isn't really accurate.
The Kul Tiran humans would count, as well as maybe the Zandalari trolls. But all of the other allied races are just old races with new textures, faces hairs, and voices. The animations and bodies are identical to their old counterparts (and those two are typically the most time consuming things to implement).

Though they did create the Vulpera and Sethrak that ARE basically the same as two new player races, except they made them npc only for some reason.

I think the Zandalari only have unique dances. The males use the male night elf skeleton, and the females are identical to every other female troll apart from their eyes and skin.