Gender locked race?

[Riardon]

I personally given up on hoping for male Vieras.
It is a huge mistake by SE.
They decided to abandon what fans wanted for so long and instead bring something no one asked for.
The leaks were proven true by 99% and I have no reason to doubt them.
Still a big mistake by SE here.

[Bright-Flower]

Yea, they can't really use that excuse when male miqote are just as rare. It just sucks that the new race will get caught up in the backlash over this.

Not only that, but there's the simple fact that...SE writes the lore.

There was no lore on male vieras in FF XIV until 4.5. By the time 4.5 was written and released they had certainly been past finalizing plans for Shadowbringers, at least in terms of big features like jobs and races.

Even IF the male viera lore was too confining to have them be playable...it's because they WROTE THEM with the goal of being unplayable. Lore doesn't just pope out of the ground on its own someone has to write it.

Hence why I say lore might be an excuse to not have male viera but it won't be the real reason for it.

[Iscah]

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Genderlock is all but confirmed at this point.
Wonder how they'll explain it.

Is that a minion though? Looks like chibi fanart to me.

Lol I'm really wondering how they would tie in Crystal Tower for people who never did it in the first place.

I've said elsewhere - if time travel is going to be involved somehow in 5.0's plot, and G'raha is back as an active character, then it seems quite possible that he'll be "from the future" (whether we go there or he comes back to our time) at whatever point the tower is unlocked again. It would sidestep the issue of whether an individual player has completed the raid or not, as it "will have" already happened for him, and would probably only need some variable dialogue at his (re)introduction to sort things out.

[BiddyBatnana]

If Hrothgar are indeed Bara I prolly won't play one tho I'm really curious to see what they look like.
I wonder also what the Japan community think about the Genderlocked Races?

[cicatriz313]

Honestly, minion or chibi art aside, being shown on an official stream out of the blue is pretty interesting since outside of leaks who would have thought an npc only crystal tower related would make a comeback.

[Lauront]

Art of a G'raha Tia minion was shown in the community stream, lending more credibility to the later leaks that mentioned Crystal Tower - and genderlocked races.

Not necessarily the latter - the problem with inferring that all leaks stand on the same footing is we don't know the source for the gender-lock. The leaker just stated it's so. If it's their assumption based on localisation work leaks, it may still be in error. We've already seen that these leaks have varying accuracy.

Really, the basis for the G'raha Tia thing was there the minute he appeared in the art. People are being willfully blind to it, insisting it's a female au ra or some other catboy who just happens to look near identical.

Lol I'm really wondering how they would tie in Crystal Tower for people who never did it in the first place.

There was an interesting post on this on Reddit:

I remember the Plot hooks from both CT and Ivalice. In the final CT Cutscenes Nero dropped his detector into the deep chasm at the CT ... which started beeping again shortly afterwards and in the final Ivalice scene we see that they intend to use the Thanatos to reach the center of Hydalin.

If I remember correctly that detector was used by Nero to detect the Power of Darkness so that thing beeping again after dropping it there has some implications.

The poster meant the robot dude and not Thanatos and he's alluding to Tartarus.

Although the Crystal Tower is likely to be involved in somewhere, purely due to what it's capable of, I find the above to certainly appear to be a promising connection. Can anyone confirm the detector part? I don't have any screenshots saved from the CT stuff.

[Lacan]

I'm just glad my boy G'raha is coming back.

[AnnaRosa]

Just came here warn that when Male Viera are out really, really, really want to be invited to everyone wedding (Ragnarok server survivors):

Male Viera with Male/Female whatever except with gnomes/hobbits/something (cause in that time will be sick).

Pls invite with anticipation so can find Anni a decent mullet, ceremony dress glamour and a decent wedding gift other than a brick wall, because last wedding was invited last second and couldn't even find a good wedding gift.

Peace <3 FREESTYLAH ROCK ROCK ROCK THE MICROPHONE oV

[Gula]

I can't wait for male viera to happen just to make everyone's all caps knee jerk reactions (because I know someone in these 200+ pages has done it) look incredibly stupid.

[Conquistadork]

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I actually agree with him in some points, while I get all the hate of male Viera not being playable, I thought it wasn't that bad as long as the other new race was something interesting, but ANOTHER cat race? What are bara cat race? Some special Mi'qote?

I remember the guy from Crystal Tower but he seemed like a normal male Mi'qote to me that had something special in his blood. (Don't remember much about CS story.)

Also, the new job being Dancer is awesome! Of course, all of this is assuming these leaks are true.