Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

Oh, that guy. Yeah, the guy who posted their workplace is more than likely false and parroting. Crystal tower was an obvious bet since we knew we were in M.D and the tower is a way to travel from shard to shard. Wasn't that leaker the only one who was claiming the lock? The other two never mentioned a gender locked - which I figure would be one heck of a thing to let loose. But yeah, I only recall one of them talking about the lock. Either way I'm going to steel myself as I'm honestly curious on how they're going to go about this is the male Viera isn't added in. Curious about that argument.

I'm all too ready to be grumpy about lack of male Viera and pray that Hrothgar looks semi-decent, otherwise I'm sticking to mid hyur - unless highlander gets eyebrows.

[Lacan]

My hope is that the leaker just wasn't privy to everything going on in development. It sounds like he left SE at some point to work elsewhere so it is possible his information is months old considering how far ahead the dev team plans things. It might be they just hadn't started work on male Viera by that point.

That might be unlikely, but it's how I'm keeping hope alive till japan fanfest. :v let me live my fantasy.

[cicatriz313]

Yeah I think only the latest leaker mentioned no male Viera, the one posted a few posts up was probably responding to the Blufever leaks about "it not being Ronso". Really though, the earlier discord leaker was where most of the wrong facts came about, i.e. melee support blu mage and hauberg glamour piece, blue mage being pre-order only etc. So who knows what to believe lol. I doubt anyone is doing fake leaks for "fame" but I could see someone being a troll to freak people out about not getting male Viera. Also I 100% don't believe the dev team is behind the leaks lol. Either way, slowly inching our way towards fanfest and the inevitable disappointment we all shall receive no matter where our desires lie.

Edit: You live your fantasy!

[Crushnight]

Becoming a leaker and announcing where you work at is just asking to be fired.
But another thing I haven't seen discussed here is the leaker talking about the other discord leaker that got too 'excited' and spread misinformation. When you put them side by side, the new leaker really didn't offer anything different. The Kirin Osode, Vermillion Cloak, and Crystal Tower (except for the cat part, which I guess can be counted as new information) were already confirmed before the new person rolled in. And of course, you can argue that the older one really was told this information by the new one... but it's still a bit odd imo.

Link to older discord stuff here.
Edit: Two other things about both of the leaks. The older one mentions, "my sources" which can be the newer person. But still, I too can confirm old information and refuse to mention anything about MSQ even tho I clearly told the other leaker about MSQ things (Minfilia and the Crystal Tower portal).

For me it is the omission of the new race's name that has me most skeptical about the leaks by the time the main story is known to include past side stories a new race would at least have a tentative name like Adam and Eve were for Omega M and F so not saying it is suspicious especially when you pair it up with a description of said race. Another thing to add is the new 8 man raid series is still hidden which would be long past conceptual stage at this point, when it comes to leaks the more you say the more chances you have for being credible this leak has very little information and it is both upfront and vague at the same time.

[BillyKaplan]

Also I 100% don't believe the dev team is behind the leaks lol.

Definitely not behind the one you linked, between how much it was bashing SE and praising the company the person supposedly moved to. But the in-game leak of "Hrothgar" right after the Paris FanFest, and it only existing in the French version, is a very interesting event. Assuming Hroths are coming, they won't be any less left field with this thing than they were before, but other than leaks and hoping, so was Gunblade so the two are actually comparable. But that's also exactly why it wouldn't have mattered that much if no one found the "bug", making it a bet worthwhile for SE to make. Either it goes unnoticed, or they generate even more buzz and conversation, and ended up giving us a leak themselves without actually saying anything explicit.
Which in a way is brilliant because it also let them test the waters - if Hroths were well received and the danger of no male Vieras wasn't so present, they might go with it. But if Hroths were rejected, or more simply, people still frothed at the mouth for male Viera, it might give them an idea of how to proceed.
Then there's also the fact that Hroths not only never appeared in any other language, but never before in the game files, either... this is me putting my tinfoil hat on, but it's just too well constructed to really have been an accident.

Either way, slowly inching our way towards fanfest and the inevitable disappointment we all shall receive no matter where our desires lie.

Yeah they kind of can't win with this now

[Theodric]

As far as the leaks are concerned, I'm inclined to consider them worthy of note. Dissidia NT suffered leaks as well - and the roster reveals all turned out to be true. Assuming it isn't the same source as the leaks for FFXIV then that means there's at least two major leakers out there plaguing Square Enix. Which is a shame, since it would have been a lot more fun and mysterious if the leaks didn't happen. Too much about them has turned out to be true for people to claim they have no merit at this point. Any 'wrong' information has been slight tweaks, such as the name of Omega M and Omega F changing.

[hozour]

Oh, that guy. Yeah, the guy who posted their workplace is more than likely false and parroting. Crystal tower was an obvious bet since we knew we were in M.D and the tower is a way to travel from shard to shard. Wasn't that leaker the only one who was claiming the lock? The other two never mentioned a gender locked - which I figure would be one heck of a thing to let loose. But yeah, I only recall one of them talking about the lock. Either way I'm going to steel myself as I'm honestly curious on how they're going to go about this is the male Viera isn't added in. Curious about that argument.

I'm all too ready to be grumpy about lack of male Viera and pray that Hrothgar looks semi-decent, otherwise I'm sticking to mid hyur - unless highlander gets eyebrows.

I agree about that leaker that mentioned the gender lock, much of what they said was simply "confirming" previously leaked information. The only actual evidence that points to a possible gender lock is based on a previous quote years ago from Yoshi-P. If you take the other two leaks at face value along with the bug in-game that lead to Hrothgar(along with Viera) being mentioned in the first place with both gender identifiers it isn't unreasonable to hope we could be getting two races of both genders.

A lot of this assuming a gender lock is from thinking there's no way devs had the time or manpower to commit to adding two full races and their suggested dislike of "cute" male viera but I like to lean toward optimism so I wouldn't say all hope is lost.

I'm eagerly awaiting fanfest along with what reveals we'll see and I'm hoping they wouldn't do anything that would dampen the hype of a good portion of the player base going into shadowbringers by introducing gender locked races of all things.

[xbahax92]

My hope is that the leaker just wasn't privy to everything going on in development. It sounds like he left SE at some point to work elsewhere so it is possible his information is months old considering how far ahead the dev team plans things.

To add here, the leaker said he is working at cygames right now. If I were cygames -> Kick. You dont need people that leak information in your company. How can they be certain that leaker wont also leak cygames information? Or better, how can that leaker actually drop such information? Isnt that a bit to risky - or just dumb?

[Theodric]

Anyone who breaches a NDA in the first place cannot be attributed to sensible decision making.

[BillyKaplan]

Anyone who breaches a NDA in the first place cannot be attributed to sensible decision making.

To be fair, you can still be smart about it even then. Saying "I used to work for SE (where I might've gotten this info) and now I work at--" was the stupid part because like a lot of people said, it really narrows down the options XD A lot of other things they said about themselves weren't favorable as far as their current employer is concerned, either