Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

...WoW races need to stay in WoW. Not interested and if that was their plan I'd be very vexed about it. I'm purposefully waiting to preoder Shadowbringers to see what ends up happening at the fanfest. I don't care if I miss the EXP boost earrings since the jobs I like playing are already at 70. Either give me male Viera, or I'll go spend my money on something else. From what I understand some WoW races are actually unlockable through quests, and if that's how we get male Viera then I might be ok with it depending on how time consuming that would be. God help them if they try gender locking classes next. I swear I'll delete my account if they make Dancer female only.

Lalafell males only- only they can draw the gil showers dancer demands! XD. More seriously though a gender locked job would be a hilarious and terrifying mistake, like "wot...? who's driving this ship? I thought we had a job system because we all loved playing all the jobs on one character..?".

What do you mean WoW races need to stick in WoW though? I mean I've been dying for a beast race for a long time, is that a WoW race? Or do you mean like.. Tauren/Orc? Because if any non-pretty/fabulous race is a WoW race then imma have to say FFXIV please add WoW races! But if you're saying Orc-sy and Tauren then yeah, they belong in WoW we don't need a Troll like they have. But players from WoW who liked those "other" visuals don't really have that in FFXIV unless Hrothgar is what we might think in a "Ronso" like race, in which case it's still more fabulous than WoW's but far more towards that "other" than say Viera, Roe (he gets really fabulous, trust me lol), and others.

Also about unlocking race, for the Allied Races as far as I understand it you can unlock them like you unlock the heroic jobs like Death Knight (Arthas) and Demon Hunter (Illidan). Alts are far more encouraged in WoW than in this game though, so that system works a bit better there. I don't think it could work here unless the quest also offered a Fantasia at the end... in which case I guess it could?