Gender locked race?

[Karl0217]

Not my fault you can't differentiate from a hypothetical as to why they MIGHT do something compared to you saying they absolutely DID do something. One of these things would need hard evidence to prove, the other is simply speculation.
Even then, you provided zero proof for any of your claims, so why should I give you any in return if I needed to?

Oh but you have made statements about what the developers did do and why they did it. Shall we look at one of the more recent examples?

Them undoing the gender locks isn't indicative of them necessarily feeling like they were damaging to the game, but were likely just one of many avenues they could use to earn bonus points with their existing and future playerbase for the relaunch.

That is a unequivocal statement about why they did do something in the past and according to your little statement above you need hard evidence to prove. Where is it?

And the reason you should provide it is because you keep demanding everybody else in this thread supply you with evidence they make a claim you dislike. Failure to do so after demanding left and right everybody else do so is hypocritical.

So now you're putting words in my mouth? In that direct quote I never said it was a MAJOR selling point. Is a new player race A selling point? yes. Is it a major one? absolutely not or else FFXIV would launch every expansion with them.

If it wasn't a major selling point why did you expect it majorly increase their market share in the Chinese and Korean markets? Minor selling points (especially a minor selling point found in many a game in that market) don't significantly increase market shares, major ones do.

Concept art, one of the most earliest and often discarded part of development. Where hundreds of thousands of concepts go to the cutting room floor, reiterated by Yoshida just last fanfest during the art panel. Concept art is one of the weakest forms of evidence you could possibly use.

And statements given by a developer in a interview years prior to the concept art even being developed about how he personally disliked the concept is weaker still. Yet, you have no trouble using that to back your claims.

Except you really don't, outside of the code being set up for male and female viera, which has plenty of logical reasons for why this may be so even if they are genderlocked, from code uniformity, to a longer term plan to make them unlocked at a later point.

And one of the possibilities is that the coding was made because they intend both male and female Viera to be playable at launch. Why should the "what if/ just so" theories you favor to explain the if/else conditional statements for male Viera player characters be weighed more heavily then those you dislike?

Concept are is not evidence of final inclusion. Lore dump is only flavor text written up, and even that text implies they won't be around more likely than being playable.

As I pointed out in my response to Tharne the lore dump specifically about the Viera population in Dalamasca when the NPC makes the statement "They simply do not exist to us." How relevant is a statement about their numbers in Dalamasca to their numbers in their homelands like the Ra'tika Greatwood?