Gender locked race?

[Allegor]

Worst part is, if they're indeed genderlocked, why not say it upfront? why not change the lore to simply state male viera don't exist in this iteration and be done with it? they KNOW people want male viera, but confirming they exist only for us to never be able to create one "because lore" just feels...wrong.

PS: I'm in the minority that would love a bara cat race, but even if it's the most gloriously fluffy race yet, I'd still feel bad it was made at the expense of something people have been requesting for years.

[Crushnight]

Worst part is, if they're indeed genderlocked, why not say it upfront? why not change the lore to simply state male viera don't exist in this iteration and be done with it? they KNOW people want male viera, but confirming they exist only for us to never be able to create one "because lore" just feels...wrong.

PS: I'm in the minority that would love a bara cat race, but even if it's the most gloriously fluffy race yet, I'd still feel bad it was made at the expense of something people have been requesting for years.

SE hasn't had qualms with saying such things in the past with Galka/Ananta (ik Ananta are a beast race but they had no issues saying they were female only with their reveal) so if they wanted to discredit any hopes of males they could've just omitted them completely and have a galka situation of where they are born from the wood and all perceived as female.

FFXIV is the first game to have male Viera mentioned within itself, FFXII only had them mentioned in supplementary material not within the game itself male Viera weren't a thing in the Ivalice setting until this and is something that could have been easily left out of FFXIV. They could've easily omitted anything regarding male Viera from 4.5 as by then they would have known full well if it was gender locked and i like to believe they would know adding anything regarding them would be giving false hope to people and they wouldn't want to do that.

The dramaturge is deliberately vague enough that his words can go either way with regarding male Viera now i do not know what the other languages are like regarding male Viera so i can only speak for the English client there. I'm going to air on the side of caution i want bunbois never going to deny that but how they have acted has me confused as a customer so i'm not getting my hopes up too high