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

[cicatriz313]

Yeah I would get your hype up for everything else and then if male Viera come it's a pleasant surprise hype. Of course I know this thread will start burning if they announce no male Viera lol..

[Duskane]

Yeah I would get your hype up for everything else and then if male Viera come it's a pleasant surprise hype. Of course I know this thread will start burning if they announce no male Viera lol..

burn with the rage of a 1000 suns

[Alacran]

I don't see why people keep citing lore as to why we can't get male Viera. Male Mi'qote have nearly the same issue but are possibly the most played male character race in the game. Many times it has been stated in previous lore panels that the WoL stands apart from lore restrictions. There is only one WoL but a few million players, the WoL is a Male Highlander and has always been... until he fantasias into a Lalafell female... which she has always been according to all npc's. Point being, lore can be rewritten, player demand will see to that.

[cicatriz313]

Lol we know. We know the lore is the same for male Miqo and there aren't any white mages/dark knights etc. Every time someone makes a lore post the exact same opposite lore post is made. If male Viera don't show up it'll be because the dev team said so.

[Gwenorai]

Lol we know. We know the lore is the same for male Miqo and there aren't any white mages/dark knights etc. Every time someone makes a lore post the exact same opposite lore post is made. If male Viera don't show up it'll be because the dev team said so.

Until they are repeatedly hammered at until they eventually give in. Even if it's not for male Viera then certainly for female Hrothgar; unless they're going to make the lore for them 'Females don't exist; they sprout from the ground.'

[cicatriz313]

Yeah, I fully expect anyone who wants male Viera to rise up against the man. I was just saying complaining about the lore posts with opposite lore posts is something we have seen like 5x by now and really it's the dev team's whims as to what will happen not the lore.

[Ariane]

Lol we know. We know the lore is the same for male Miqo and there aren't any white mages/dark knights etc. Every time someone makes a lore post the exact same opposite lore post is made. If male Viera don't show up it'll be because the dev team said so.

All I see is someone just said the lore is evidence the dev team said "no" to male Viera. This is hard to understand for some reason, and then you get people going on about "but the lore!", white mages and miqo'te even though that's got nothing to do with what was argued in the first place.

[Lacan]

I think people are just saying that using the lore as justification for excluding the race isn't a good excuse. You're supposed to be the only white mage of your generation when you can't walk down the street in Kugane without bumping into 6 others. Male miqote are supposed to be several times rarer than the females because of a lower birth rate, and yet you'll find numerous shirtless ones afk in every zone in the game.


So them trying to tell us, "oh, we didn't want to make male Viera playable because it conflicts with the lore" is a lie. :v They must have their reasons, no doubt, but no one is going to buy that one if they try to spin it that way. I won't at least.