I was really looking forward to playing a male Viera. If they decide to gender lock the classes I'm gonna have to take time off to cool down. I've not played a single game where they have a male rabbit eared demi-human type race (despite it being my favorite type of race), so was immensely looking forward to this.

Male Viera exist in Lore, albeit currently rare. So any attempt to gender lock this race can only be seen as greedy. Like with what TERA did with Elin, by releasing Elin exclusive/female exclusive classes because the majority of users who spend money on costumes are female character players. Also, this will be the first gender locked class for this game and I'm worried this is going to start FFXIV down a bad path since NOBODY wants a gender locked class at all. There's no reason for it to exist in Lore and so there must be an ulterior reason as to why they want to add a gender locked class.

So SE please don't go down this path. I don't want this game to be ruined like TERA.