Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
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