Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
Have you not considered that the focus is like this because it is a new race? People always bring up the gender locked races in 1.0 and FFXI and how badly they were received when talking about viera.
Don't recall them being "badly received," if anything, the fact that one of the main NPCs was a female Roegadyn when there was only males available being a talking point. People just requested for the opposite genders of the spiritual successors of XI since they were remaking the game anyway.

If you think the gender locking conversation is only due to some weird fixation on bunny men then I have to assume you haven't been paying as much attention as you claim.
It's as plain as day that the really vocal people in that thread want male viera and if you think that's not an underlying motive to push for "unlocking" possible genderlocked races you're being willfully obtuse.

And yet in lore male miqo'te are rarely seen but among the playerbase they're extremely popular.Never mind how in 1.0 that race gender combo was unplayable. So if players can play the once unplayable "rare" male miqo'te, then why can't they also play the rare male viera? Why the double-standard?
The simplest reason is because viera are not a creation of XIV. They are immigrated from another different story, game, whatever- where females are the primary representatives of that setting and males have not played any part in it. Not to say that they can't simply write-them in with some weak Deus ex Machina that comes out of nowehere, but I admit I'd respect the devs more if they adhered to the source game they borrowed them from.

You're also forgetting that SE own all the FF lore so they can change it any way they please. And they certainly have done so many times already. A lot of what they borrowed from other FF games isn't used in the exact same way in FFXIV.
The issue I see here is they've not done something on the level of immigrating a specific, iconic race in one particular setting into XIV and decided to practically retcon a defining characteristic about them (females being the highly visible ones) until now. This is different from "what are the classic summons in this game? Let's reuse this monster/boss from this FF game here that has practically 0 impact on anything." Or "Let's name this inconsequential type of item something recognizable from a previous series."

If SE don't introduce male viera it would be because they don't want to. Not because they cannot.
Agreed. And I'd respect that decision based on the circumstances surrounding viera. Clearly some people just want them bad enough for that not to matter.

In any case, I'm done arguing anything else about viera-anything here. Just need to wait for the next fanfest to see what the devs ultimately decided to do.


Quote Originally Posted by Duskane View Post
The issue is
Male race big strong and beastly
Female race petite and pretty
So, par for the course because that's Au ra in a nutshell? And if the content model is anything to go by, they don't like "mixing it up and trying anything new" which I thought a lot of people were fine with? /s