how would you feel a about a genderless race

[Ilan]

Bad idea is bad, it would cause more problems for SE and likely open more crap SJWs will try to push on to the game.

As if we wouldn't have enough of them already. This is a game and i honestly have no idea why the hell these people troll around in here.

[Lacan]

As if we wouldn't have enough of them already. This is a game and i honestly have no idea why the hell these people troll around in here.

Don't think this has anything to do with SJWs. The Final Fantasy series has already shown sexless races. That's how the Galka functioned in FF11 and there wasn't any outcry about it. You 2 are the only ones trying to push anything that I see. :v

[Nabril]

How does having a genderless race mean SE would have to explain their reproduction to us? That's just silly. It's not like SE already teach us how males and females interact in bed.

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How do you suppose they introduce a genderless race without telling us that they are asexual? There would have to be an entire storyline or it would just be another gendered race. And the only reason people are asking for this is because of the recent movement of people trying to shed gender identity. That whole thing isn't needed in a video game.

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

How do you suppose they introduce a genderless race without telling us that they are asexual? There would have to be an entire storyline or it would just be another gendered race. And the only reason people are asking for this is because of the recent movement of people trying to shed gender identity. That whole thing isn't needed in a video game.

Lol over 200 games have a genderless race/species without ever mention anything sexual.

Sounds like your just some 12 year old boy trying 2 sexualiz a game

[Lacan]

How do you suppose they introduce a genderless race without telling us that they are asexual? There would have to be an entire storyline or it would just be another gendered race. And the only reason people are asking for this is because of the recent movement of people trying to shed gender identity. That whole thing isn't needed in a video game.

They just explained it in the instruction manual...

[Penthea]

How do you suppose they introduce a genderless race without telling us that they are asexual? There would have to be an entire storyline or it would just be another gendered race. And the only reason people are asking for this is because of the recent movement of people trying to shed gender identity. That whole thing isn't needed in a video game.

I take it you haven't interacted with the ananta at all then? It's clear they're all the same gender and they refer to one another by only "she". Which I mentioned already is essentially the same as being genderless in their case because they can reproduce despite all being the same gender. Do you see any outrage about them? No. Maybe because it's not as big a deal as you think it is :P

SE actually have a long history of having genderless races in their games, more than a decade before the movement of gender identity got a strong foothold. And the franchise didn't suffer from it.

[Jordius]

This could only end badly. For everyone.

lol i think we had the same thing in mind.

[Iscah]

I mean aesthetically wise the only MALES we have are au ra and roe 2s tribes.

The other races are pretty much extremely femine with both genders...
Yet i still see them around lol

You seem to be confusing male/female and masculine/feminine - or possibly "modern Western" masculinity for the only possible variety.

All the player races (except possibly Lalafell) have clearly male characters that can be customised towards a masculine or feminine style, depending on your taste. There's more than one type of masculine appearance - it's not just the bulky muscular types that have a "male aesthetic" - there can be slender elegant males or small wiry males (cat ears optional) or anything inbetween.


I have a male Elezen alt, and he doesn't look female to me at all. Somewhat feminine, on a sliding scale of gender, but still with a "maleness" to it for lack of a beter word.

Plus, it would be annoying if all references to the race have to be ambiguous. The only third person singular pronoun that is genderless in English is "it" and that term is considered impolite to use when referencing a person, as far as I know, while "s/he" is just awkward to use on a regular basis, especially with the possibility of voiced/spoken references.

We absolutely have a better genderless pronoun than "it" or the terribly awkard "s/he": singular "they". It's not new and it's probably not as strange as it sounds - I certainly use it all the time in Internet discussions, if I'm referring to another poster, instead of using he/she if I don't know which is correct.

[linay]

We absolutely have a better genderless pronoun than "it" or the terribly awkard "s/he": singular "they". It's not new and it's probably not as strange as it sounds - I certainly use it all the time in Internet discussions, if I'm referring to another poster, instead of using he/she if I don't know which is correct.

I've used both that and the "generic he" mentioned in that article sometimes, but both usage can get confusing. At other times, I don't mind spelling out "he or she" and "him or herself" sometimes, though still awkward. Any of those options I think is better than "s/he" unless in the context of just an informal short hand notation.

[Jaggerjack]

But Quina can also equip several female only add-ons, so it seems the game treats Quina as both rather than one or the other. Also the headpiece Lamia's Tiara is female only but Quina can equip it, so the Entice ability kinda contradicts it. Also some localisations/languages also struggle to define male or female in wording so it's not always obvious.

ok quina is an it.