Gender locked race?

[Lacan]

I don't know if you've had the chance to see any of the panels or listen to how the dev team operates over the years... but 5.0 is pretty much done in terms of "what content is going to be included at lauch" and the art team is already working on 5.1. (Source Art Panel from EU Fanfest)

Viera, showcased by the Art team, would have been designed by them first. The idea that Male Viera is behind on development isn't logical with the factual information we have from the team as recently as last month. When the main person that was responsible for creating the viera concept art for the girls we are getting said she's already working on 5.1 things. That is a pretty big indicator.

But what's more? Yoshi openly tells us when he wants to show us things but they weren't ready in time. The new Savage series hit a snag and Yoshi told us flat out he wanted to show us but couldn't (Source Fanfest). So why wouldn't they just tell us that when they have a habit of being honest with us?

Having an opinion, being dissapointed in not getting something is 100% ok. But when you bash a dev team that has shown us time and time again they are doing what they can for us, with the resources they are given by even bigger SE and bashing them over and over in 160 pages of the OF? Nah, that's ridiculous entitled behavior.

It's ok to think you're getting something. As noted in the posts you probably didn't read. I am a firm believer that if the people asked in a decent way that we would get it eventually. As we did with the male bunny suits. But it's not ok to just be complete monsters about it to the team that can read these threads and works hard for us with the resources they are given.

Have compassion. Be a decent player base.



You're reading into his response, what you want from it. He can't speak about the male counterpart because it's sanctioned for release at the JP fanfest. That's not him saying "Oh Male Viera are on the way for sure". If anything that's odd behavior and it's super weird already they didn't address it out right. That is not hope, it's an opinion that people have that is morphing into entitlement.

There would be no reason to leave the question open if he knew we weren't getting male viera then. That just doesn't make sense. Yoshi wouldn't want to intentionally gaslight people into thinking male viera is possible if they weren't. They were showcasing the female viera and if a trait of the viera race was that it was going to be female only, they would have said that instead of leaving it in the air.

You're making assumptions about the meaning of his words just as much as anyone else in this thread. At the end of the day, all we can do is wait for Japanese fanfest. But from following the way Yoshi has talked about things in the past, it isn't like him to be vague about something like this if the answer is going to be something negative. He'd be direct if he knew it was something people cared about.

[ErysNight]

There would be no reason to leave the question open if he knew we weren't getting male viera then. That just doesn't make sense. Yoshi wouldn't want to intentionally gaslight people into thinking male viera is possible if they weren't. They were showcasing the female viera and if a trait of the viera race was that it was going to be female only, they would have said that instead of leaving it in the air.

You're making assumptions about the meaning of his words just as much as anyone else in this thread. At the end of the day, all we can do is wait for Japanese fanfest. But from following the way Yoshi has talked about things in the past, it isn't like him to be vague about something like this if the answer is going to be something negative. He'd be direct if he knew it was something people cared about.

I really don't have a leg in this race though in order to read into it. Look at it from a clear unbiased perspective. It really makes zero sense not to reveal male viera at the same time. Aura wasn't split up between two fanfests.

He is documented in an article saying that they know people want viera and are looking into it but males would be weird so maybe another race and we now have a name Hrothgar and a leaker that has been 95%+ accuracte saying we are getting two new races.

Logically if there were males it makes no sense to not tell us asap. You also ignored everything about the art team and development. So ok, you can pick and choose what you want to respond to.

We shall see in a month and a half.

[Lacan]

I really don't have a leg in this race though in order to read into it. Look at it from a clear unbiased perspective. It really makes zero sense not to reveal male viera at the same time. Aura wasn't split up between two fanfests.

He is documented in an article saying that they know people want viera and are looking into it but males would be weird so maybe another race and we now have a name Hrothgar and a leaker that has been 95%+ accuracte saying we are getting two new races.

Logically if there were males it makes no sense to not tell us asap. You also ignored everything about the art team and development. So ok, you can pick and choose what you want to respond to.

We shall see in a month and a half.

Like I said, if the female viera barely look finished then I can understand the male viera just not being ready to show either. There is obviously something strange going on with the viera, and until I get confirmation that there won't be any playable males, I don't buy it. Yoshi has said in the past he doesn't like genderlocked races. Why would he bring them back for the males of a race that already have design work done and ingame lore prepared? We've already been shown art for male viera in the past. If he thought they were weird at one point, he must have gotten over it or those designs would have never happened.