Gender locked race?

[Wolfyboy]

If they're trying to give us Hrothgar as a substitute for male Viera, they should at least try to fill some of the expectations people had from Viera though. People aren't going to be happy if they're given something completely different and told to just forget about male Viera. That'll go over terribly.

Honestly, I see making Hrothgar the male Viera as a lose situation that no one should want. Based on the description of both leakers the male Viera equivalent won't look like what most people want out of it, and if they base it on rabbits that slashes a mark of actually ever including male Viera in the first place. We know a general idea of how it'll look like and if it is based on Ronso/bara cat it'll probably use a modified body of Roe. It is a lose situation for people who want something more bestial since they could go in the next fanfest, "Oh, Viera isn't the last race! We said probably, remember guys? It is actually Hrothgar!" and if they decide to ever do work for more races instead of unlocking Viera/Hrothgar is gives them an easy out of saying, "Well, we already have a male and female based rabbit races. We would prefer to do something different this time."

Cause even if they say these are the last races, I don't fully believe them. >.> I'm very bad at getting my points across so I'll try to do tldr.

1) Hrothgar and Viera are female/male bunny races. Hrothgar is as described to be basically Roe with bunny ears. Developers think that should satisfy folk and never unlock these races, it is a male and female bunny race after all. Both groups are unsatisfied. They can now add a completely different race (which would make Viera fans lose in the end)

2) Hrothgar and Viera are both different races that satisfy different groups. People on forums make a ruckus (temporarily unsatisfied) , they unlock them later since they don't have an excuse. Both groups get what they want.

3) They unlock Viera and Hrothgar which are both bunny races. (bestial race advocates lost)

[Lacan]

Honestly, I see making Hrothgar the male Viera as a lose situation that no one should want. Based on the description of both leakers the male Viera equivalent won't look like what most people want out of it, and if they base it on rabbits that slashes a mark of actually ever including male Viera in the first place. We know a general idea of how it'll look like and if it is based on Ronso/bara cat it'll probably use a modified body of Roe. It is a lose situation for people who want something more bestial since they could go in the next fanfest, "Oh, Viera isn't the last race! We said probably, remember guys? It is actually Hrothgar!" and if they decide to ever do work for more races instead of unlocking Viera/Hrothgar is gives them an easy out of saying, "Well, we already have a male and female based rabbit races. We would prefer to do something different this time."

Cause even if they say these are the last races, I don't fully believe them. >.>

Yea, I do see what you're saying there, but I just can't imagine them announcing a wildly different kind of race to go with Viera. They have to know people have their expectations primed for some version of male Viera, regardless of what form it takes, and for them to give people something completely out of left field is going to leave people feeling burned. Especially if the new race is something that is going to appeal to a small subset of people, (i.e. the bara people). :v

I mean, can you imagine Japanese girls reacting to a giant cat race that shares a body model with roes? Japanese girls who were expecting cute doe eyed bunny boys to fawn over? Do you really want Yoshi to break their hearts?

[Gwenorai]

Yea, I do see what you're saying there, but I just can't imagine them announcing a wildly different kind of race to go with Viera. They have to know people have their expectations primed for some version of male Viera, regardless of what form it takes, and for them to give people something completely out of left field is going to leave people feeling burned. Especially if the new race is something that is going to appeal to a small subset of people, (i.e. the bara people). :v

I mean, can you imagine Japanese girls reacting to a giant cat race that shares a body model with roes? Japanese girls who were expecting cute doe eyed bunny boys to fawn over? Do you really want Yoshi to break their hearts?

Obviously, we're going to get daddy byakko body type. Can't have them having the same type of body as male roe - let's face it, that's all that roe has going for it. They are the buff bear.

[Lacan]

Obviously, we're going to get daddy byakko body type. Can't have them having the same type of body as male roe - let's face it, that's all that roe has going for it. They are the buff bear.

I'd be okay with this! That's a good middle ground.