Gender locked race?

[Crushnight]

I'm saying they may have opted to split the genders so they could introduce a new race earlier to go along with the expansion of territory and regions we would be going to.

For example, if we are going to ilsabard and they want us to have a player race from that area, then we would need to potentially encounter them as we are going through the journey in those lands. The same goes for viera, if we are heading to their territory as well we need to be able to see some of them. So this means they can develope some of the assets now to cover twice the area of potential story locations, while still giving them the option to undo the locks later.

It's pointing out that there's other positive reasons for them to potentially gender lock the races. Anything they do with this game is "recieved poorly" by some demographic of the players and isn't (nor shouldn't) be a major deterrent to doing things.

I have to commend you i think your the 1st person to put positives towards gender locking on races i have seen in this thread and it has been something i wanted to know for awhile as i am biased towards no gender locking on races/jobs and find it hard to see the other side's viewpoint however i don't think the positives you have expressed will be adequate enough reasons against people like me, forced restrictions always have backlash gameplay restrictions are more severe and have lasting impact whereas cosmetic ones are more baffling.

Delaying releases for the other gender of races has its own problems as well as you only get one 1st impression and the more restrictions or lack of information you give with that 1st impression can have a more negative than positive reception within your community the potential for gender locks has been a hot topic and does put a few people on edge about ShB especially after what happened with regards to Blu, SE has handled this poorly no matter the outcome.

Now the reason i don't agree with showing us only half of a race and then going to their home resides with Viera specifically male Viera will be defending their forest(if alive) from outsiders which we will be there is a good chance we would at least feel the presence of a male long before we see a female within the forest within the msq heck we should be attacked by a male before seeing a female, so if male Viera are alive then there would be at least a single male model ready to use which then begs the question why aren't they playable?.