Gender locked race?

[Tsumdere]

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.

The leaks sort of sounding like there is some connection between Crystal Tower and the new race in "Yes, Crystal Tower is coming back. Expect many new cats." make me nervous. If the new race is a bunch of Allagan altered Miqo'te, I don't know what I'll do. Just be literally dumbfounded.

March cannot come soon enough.

[Shougun]

I can't wait to see what happens. There are so many options and avenues of possibility, and how they will go from there is interesting.

Optimally our minds are blown, alternatively we get to see SE do an oopsy - which will be an interesting show for the forums I guess.. lol.

Wonder how they'll explain it.

I can see them postponing one gender fairly easily, in my own "acceptance" at least, via some very strict lore and engagement through the story but to do that twice for two races sounds a bit impractical or at least a lot harder to pull off without looking like it was forced and silly. If the fire drew all the male Viera to deal with an extreme threat and are all busy off doing who knows what (or drew off and killed), through the story then you can help bring them back to the forest (perhaps back in time via the crystal tower, otherwise viera going to go extinct lol).

Viera male 5.X / 6.0. I'm not suggesting people would love it, but I could see it working via lore and damaging any sort of hate train (while allowing them to introduce two races at once for players to play, which is a value to some and obviously not to others).

To see that twice though.. seems a bit tough. Of course they could have no intention of making both genders available later, in which case it's not tough it's just rough lol (and the hate train will launch on all cylinders then). And lots of other options, could have only one race, or both genders for two races, etc etc.

[Metsonm]

Well, I hope they're ready for years of asking if we can get the other set.

[Lacan]

Well, I hope they're ready for years of asking if we can get the other set.

The girls and the gays will have to join forces once again and pester Yoshi till he caves. I'm ready. :v I'm in it for the long haul.

[cicatriz313]

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.

Lol careful, the spite police might show up and make you feel bad!

[Crushnight]

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Thank you

i'm gunna take this leak with grains of salt for 3 reasons

1) they are being very vindictive to not only SE their former employer who probably were let go over the last leaks (fair i would be angry too after losing job due to someone else's fault) but to people wanting male viera as well who for whatever happened is just being mean spirited with this

2) they contradict themselves by saying i don't want to spoil for people but reveal not only gender locking will be a thing but new job and stuff coming in Eureka. A spoiler is a spoiler if it hasn't been officially announced no matter what you are spoiling

3) Still no name on this other race i'm sorry but a name means absolutely nothing if its a new race its not a story spoiler we can't guess what it'll look like from just a name saying Bara cats is more spoilery to this new race than a name so why hide this name as much as every leak has its silly

[Shougun]

The girls and the gays will have to join forces once again and pester Yoshi till he caves. I'm ready. :v I'm in it for the long haul.

[insert 500 page rant on why I wasn't included into the group, end with smug self back pat]

Also, I shall call your team the GGs.

PACK IT UP BOYS THE GGs ARE COMING, GG. GG. GET OUT, YOSHIDA SAVE YOURSELF.

Maybe i'll play both sides.

Going to start the straight masculine sirens and half way through flip and then near the end as Yoshida's resolve crumbles and male Viera starts to come out flip again. Just to cry endlessly on how no one will play it but occasionally make long posts on how fabulous and pretty they are, and ultimately ask for it to be canceled because it's making me question myself and the community. Finally once its out I'll pretend I was always for it and say everyone misunderstood me and made me a victim for my heroic support and really how much I had to bear for the community to get male Viera out.

I'm going to call it my #currentyearpolitics game plan, it'll work flawlessly - so long as no one archives anything.

Less jokey though I cannot fathom, except on one or two reasons, that they haven't thought the demand for male Viera would be strong and persistent until made - such that IF male Viera is locked that male Viera will be unlocked and is already planned to be.

The only things that I think could prevent it is the two developers (either one or both) Yoshida and Matsuno sticking their foot down and playing the trump card "No bunnies, never". The reason I say that is because it would be very beneficial for them to have designs, concepts, story, and ground work needed for later releasing the other gender even if they're not ready yet (preparing the work as they move forward, making it easier and less of a sudden 180/u-turn - don't need to go back as much).

So unless there is top brass intervention I feel that they've already the plan for male Viera even if it's not out this expansion release because... many people will push for it and so it doesn't make sense to me that they're thinking "nope we will NEVER do it". Even if it's longer than anticipated I'm assuming they've got plans prepared.

Perhaps its like "if we get enough demand begin operation fabulous", otherwise shelve it for later when we're out of ideas (so how soon would depend on response maybe, with obviously a minimum amount of time that'd have to pass because it'll still take some time).

[cicatriz313]

Yeah, it's a bit sketchy to give info as obvious as "I worked for square and now I work for cygames" unless there was a mass exodus from square to cygames because then it's like hey, there's Hiromi he's the leaker! (Random name) But at the same time all of these leaks and mishaps keep lining up in a row.

[Lacan]

[insert 500 page rant on why I wasn't included into the group, end with smug self back pat]

Also, I shall call your team the GGs.

PACK IT UP BOYS THE GGs ARE COMING, GG. GG. GET OUT, YOSHIDA SAVE YOURSELF.

Maybe i'll play both sides.

Going to start the straight masculine sirens and half way through flip and then near the end as Yoshida's resolve crumbles and male Viera starts to come out flip again. Just to cry endlessly on how no one will play it but occasionally make long posts on how fabulous and pretty they are, and ultimately ask for it to be canceled because it's making me question myself and the community. Finally once its out I'll pretend I was always for it and say everyone misunderstood me and made me a victim for my heroic support and really how much I had to bear for the community to get male Viera out.

I'm going to call it my #currentyearpolitics game plan, it'll work flawlessly - so long as no one archives anything.

Less jokey though I cannot fathom, except on one or two reasons, that they haven't thought the demand for male Viera would be strong and persistent until made - such that IF male Viera is locked that male Viera will be unlocked and is already planned to be.

The only things that I think could prevent it is the two developers (either one or both) Yoshida and Matsuno sticking their foot down and playing the trump card "No bunnies, never". The reason I say that is because it would be very beneficial for them to have designs, concepts, and ground work for later releasing the other gender even if they're not ready yet (preparing the work as they move forward, making it easier and less of a sudden 180/u-turn - don't need to go back as much).

So unless there is top brass intervention I feel that they've already the plan for male Viera even if it's not out this expansion release because... many people will push for it and so it doesn't make sense to me that they're thinking "nope we will NEVER do it". Even if it's longer than anticipated I'm assuming they've got plans prepared.

Perhaps its like "if we get enough demand begin operation fabulous", otherwise shelve it for later when we're out of ideas (so how soon would depend on response maybe, with obviously a minimum amount of time that'd have to pass because it'll still take some time).

I welcome your support even if you are straight! You can't help that you are straight and I would never judge you for that. We'll need all the people badgering Yoshi-p that we can get.

[Bright-Flower]

I really hope there are no gender locked races. I have no intention of playing a male viera, but from an RP perspective it's going to annoy people that want to RP them. And if we have male keepers I see no reason not to have male viera lore wise. Not to mention duskwights being uncommon in general out and about. The player character is an individual not a statistic. There don't have to be a lot of male viera adventuring for the WOL to be one.