Gender locked race?

[Karl0217]

I don't have to prove anything because unlike you making direct statements that they did X because of Y in the past I was only proposing a theory as to potential reasoning for something they may or may not have done. I'm not claiming they absolutely did something because of other markets, but it could absolutely be a factor in the decision.

So in other words you just want to attack and not have to actually defend any of the statements you made? Can't say I am surprised that you demand hard evidence from your opponents but are incapable of providing it for your arguments.

And no player race is a major selling point for this game's expansions.

How odd, in this post:

People keep going on like only the JP/NA/EU player's desires/tastes count. They seem to be forgetting the large player bases in the Korean and Chinese markets. People often talk about how genderlocking is a staple of Korean MMO's, so new genderlocked races couldn't possibly be catering to that crowd? Especially when those are areas they would likely look to be increasing their playerbase even more as they may have reached a plateau in the NA/EU/JP regions.

you went and implied that it would be a major selling point in the Chinese and Korean markets. Now you are saying it is not. Which is it?

Besides, Heavensward didn't get damaged when they opted for Au Ra over viera. Stormblood didn't get damaged when they opted for Nothing over viera. Now Shadowbringers is coming, and it's bringing the viera that the vast majority of players aware of what a viera is think of when they think of viera. So yeah, its a pretty safe assumption nothing is going to happen except a bunch of whining.

Difference in this situation being that we know they did development work on male Viera; remember that concept art? We have seen male/female Viera options referenced in the code via that bug. We have seen lore dumps on male Viera in game. We have hard evidence that male Viera were being developed in game. The onus is on you to provide hard evidence and arguments as to why development work on them was abandoned and not simply make 'what if' claims based on personal opinions and bias.