Gender locked race?

[Seraphor]

Because its Yoshi P, he likes to tease these things.

He wants people to be on edge going into Tokyo fan fest.
If they're going to announce a new race, when people are already expecting 'something', then keeping 'male viera' as a possible option gives us doubt as to what to expect.
Eliminate male Viera before announcing the new race, and people are already on the defensive and already forming negative opinions on what is obviously a new race before its even announced, which is exactly what's going on due to this leak.
They need the new race to soften the blow of no male viera, and they need to save something big for Tokyo fan fest.

[Gwenorai]

Because its Yoshi P, he likes to tease these things.

He wants people to be on edge going into Tokyo fan fest.
If they're going to announce a new race, when people are already expecting 'something', then keeping 'male viera' as a possible option gives us doubt as to what to expect.
Eliminate male Viera before announcing the new race, and people are already on the defensive and already forming negative opinions on what is obviously a new race before its even announced, which is exactly what's going on due to this leak.
They need the new race to soften the blow of no male viera, and they need to save something big for Tokyo fan fest.

People will be on the defensive regardless, the only thing that folks would be the least defensive about is if they came out with two races - if Hrothgar is legit - that isn't gender locked.

I can't even imagine male Viera being locked due to the where we're going and the plot of the burning of the wood - I just can't imagine how the writers are going to have it be without it being half-arsed.

With Hrothgar they can just throw it in there, but lame writing is lame writing.

If they didn't want the male Viera they should have written that in the lore to the point that Viera's reproduce asexually or thy wood magic. They really didn't need to add a male. Just like all of the other games didn't need to have males in their lore - I honestly never understood the point of it unless you wanted to expand upon that in the future.

[redcurrant18]

Because its Yoshi P, he likes to tease these things.

He wants people to be on edge going into Tokyo fan fest.
If they're going to announce a new race, when people are already expecting 'something', then keeping 'male viera' as a possible option gives us doubt as to what to expect.
Eliminate male Viera before announcing the new race, and people are already on the defensive and already forming negative opinions on what is obviously a new race before its even announced, which is exactly what's going on due to this leak.
They need the new race to soften the blow of no male viera, and they need to save something big for Tokyo fan fest.

Or they could have just skipped the insane amount of drama this has generated and given players what we specifically have been asking for instead of throwing us a curveball. If he comes onstage and presents Hrothgar instead of male Viera all hell will probably break loose and we'd have our own version of the Diablo Immortals announcement but for FFXIV. I don't care about how Tactics and FF12's lore was-this is FFXIV-and if they removed the genderlock for Galka/Roegadyn and Mithra/Miqote then they better not gender lock whatever other races they add next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJy6bJ_RxXg