Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

Mm. I'm hoping we get something a little more unique this time around.

:O like what?


Honestly, regarding male Viera, I'm hoping there is more too them than the ears and the feet. I'm hoping to have a little bit of fur or something? I liked the fur on their chests that was decorating the collar bone. It won't be insane, but it'd be something. I was actually hoping that the males would be more 'Jackalope' like, and would have small antlers.

[MrKimper]

I'm just hoping to see whether Yoshida will actually pull the genderlocked trigger. If the dev team is actually insane enough to piss off people that were fanatic enough to ask for the bunny suit 5 years in a row at multiple different fan festivals.

[Roda]

Hellsguard Roegadyn + Horns + Long Hairstyle = Pantera you're welcome now let's get back to what the majority of people actually want:

This, but with heels.
DONT FORGET THE HEELS YOU COWARDS!!!!!

[Theodric]

:O like what?


Honestly, regarding male Viera, I'm hoping there is more too them than the ears and the feet. I'm hoping to have a little bit of fur or something? I liked the fur on their chests that was decorating the collar bone. It won't be insane, but it'd be something. I was actually hoping that the males would be more 'Jackalope' like, and would have small antlers.

Anything along those lines would be wonderful. They're meant to be fierce and reclusive protectors of the forest after all - so it makes sense for them to look at least somewhat intimidating.

[cicatriz313]

Party pooooperrr

I know that folks have their different opinions and all that, but I honestly will never understand when folks come into a thread that's obviously going to be filled to the brim with fans wanting something only to just you know, crap on it? Sounds like a recipe for salt for the sake of just being 'that dude'.

Lol I've been posting in this thread for like a week now and not just crapping on it. The guy posted that roes with long hair would be Pantera. Then proceeds to post humanoids with bunny ears. Maybe read the rest of the thread. Most of my comments have been logically thought out.

[Iscah]

I was actually hoping that the males would be more 'Jackalope' like, and would have small antlers.

I'd already screenshotted this and was going to fish up the "Show Your Viera" joke thread for it, but seeing as you left it wide open....



You're welcome. :P



But seriously, as much as I'd like to see those concept-art male Viera implemented in the game, I do think they'd risk ending up quite close to "Au Ra with bunny ears". Horns of any sort would probably be a bad move in this case, even if they might look good on a totally independent rabbit-based race for another story.


Also, apologies for doing that annoying "edit to quote the post below" thing, but....

the bunny ears we currently have are a tiara that clashes with the whole "forest warrior" look.

It's rather frustrating. I wish they'd set it to use /visor to turn off the crown.

[redcurrant18]

Lol I've been posting in this thread for like a week now and not just crapping on it. The guy posted that roes with long hair would be Pantera. Then proceeds to post humanoids with bunny ears. Maybe read the rest of the thread. Most of my comments have been logically thought out.

The problem is...Roegadyn are basically pantera. If you want to make one look like a wolf or a cat it's pretty easy, and they have that stocky look that crowd seems to want. We don't have a way to do the same for Viera males though. We have tall/lanky humanoids, but the bunny ears we currently have are a tiara that clashes with the whole "forest warrior" look. The only other way to make a male Viera seems to also be through modding, but I shouldn't have to bother with that if I want to make a male Viera. I pay enough to not have to resort to those methods. If we don't get male Viera due to someone's personal preferences then I'm gonna exercise my personal preferences too and spend the money for Shadowbringers on Red Lobster instead.

[Shougun]

The problem is...Roegadyn are basically pantera.

To be honest though at the point of saying Pantera look like Roe then Viera look like what we already have too.

I'm not saying we can't play these games of X looks like Y but if we're going to give as much leeway as we need to say Pantera = Roe.

This:


Equals that:


Then Viera is definitely nothing special either then.

Not stopping you from posting that obviously lol, but I'm really not a fan of "Pantera isn't special because Roe+face paint+horns/hair" when you could do very much the same thing to Viera then.

I DO NOT want to stop male viera but I would take Pantera over male Viera as my race change, if I were to fantasia. That and I do feel Pantera would be unique to the FFXIV universe in terms of looks (x+y+z = "pretty much Viera").

Of course Pantera isn't what SE has confirmed, they've honestly not confirmed anything lol, so it's a bit.. "eeeh" to talk so distinictly about Pantera.. But they do have that feeling of "what SE might do if they were to make a lion-like ronso-like race and we consider that Viera foot system was just added" (which a lion like race would probably also use, making them more distinct from Roe).

[Theodric]

I just don't see it. Roegadyn aren't even remotely similar to Pantera. I'd be very happy if FFXIV were to get a race similar to them, though. They're exactly what I wish Miqo'te could be.

[JamiaHaab]

I'm very confident in saying that the devils advocate posters that want a "beastly" race are getting hrothgar. You are getting a bara cat race with a majestic mane. You win that. But we want male viera and female hrothgar. Along with just not wanting genderlock in a game that isn't cheap and pandering. It's not cool that the devs are ignoring us.