Gender locked race?

[Theodric]

It's also possible that the decision to add Hrothgar was made before the decision to add Viera.

[Gwenorai]

It's also possible that the decision to add Hrothgar was made before the decision to add Viera.

I'm hoping so; the viera didn't even look complete - even with just the females - if Hrothgar was added after then I'd be questioning a lot. Though that brings forward the whole, why didn't they have a 'Hrothgar' be in the place of 'Fran' or was it to hype the whole - 'she's been here before' and 'Without a Viera they'd kill you for entering that place' since Fran noted that they were being watched by the wood wardens during the 24man.

[BillyKaplan]

It's also possible that the decision to add Hrothgar was made before the decision to add Viera.

There's some support to that if you go by the Hrothgar 'bug' in the French version, as the order of races listed there went: ARR races, Au Ra, Hrothgar first, and only then Viera.

[Lacan]

There's some support to that if you go by the Hrothgar 'bug' in the French version, as the order of races listed there went: ARR races, Au Ra, Hrothgar first, and only then Viera.

It could be that they were planning Hrothgar for a very long time but since Viera became a hot topic with the Ivalice raids their announcement got pushed ahead to build hype. That'd explain why the Viera seemed unfinished in the trailer they showed.

we'll know by the end of this week one way or another though XD

[Mansion]

There's some support to that if you go by the Hrothgar 'bug' in the French version, as the order of races listed there went: ARR races, Au Ra, Hrothgar first, and only then Viera.

I would not rely on this too much, because both were implemented during that 4.55 patch. It could basically be alphabetical order between those two.