Gender locked race?

[username1234]

no male viera because of lore
the same lore that says beast races aren't allowed in the city states

[Freyt]

[Duskane]

That's FF10, we're playing 14. We know literally nothing about the race other than what it looks like.

they did openly confirmed hrothgar are equal to ronso though and even made Khimari
like lalafell and dwarves

[CorbinDallas]

Unfortunately, we do know that they're called Ronso in the first shard. There's no real excuse for them being male only when we know that "Ronso" have females.

FF10 Ronso have females, yes. But I repeat, this is FF14, and we know absolutely nothing about our "Ronso".

[Efrye]

I think their way of handling it is utterly silly, but in the end, they design the game, and then bring it to market. As a work of art, the producers of it will have their preferences on what they put in it and how to present it. They are perfectly entitled to do that, and of course people are perfectly free to reject the product. I don't quite see there being huge demand for Hrothgar in the way they've been added, and monitoring the active figures a few months in will probably be highly revealing.

This is not how designing an AAA game usually works. Choices like this are not driven by artists, but by suits.

But either way, no matter how you justify the decision, the way they handled revealing the information was definitely poor.

[Novak_04]

The backlash is going to be real. Now that we have confirmation on the gender locks, and it's not longer speculation, there are going to be rage posts everywhere. This entire Keynote has resulted in a disappointed Zugz. A silver lining is that I'm not longer on the edge of my seat stressing for Shadowbringers. Now, I'm more than happy with just waiting until it gets here. Unless there is some super secret, amazeballs-level reveal (Geomancer) between now and Sunday, this expansion is BFA 2.0 as far as I'm concerned.

[Gwenorai]

FF10 Ronso have females, yes. But I repeat, this is FF14, and we know absolutely nothing about our "Ronso".

Could be that, not like it's ever stopped them from genderlocking a race because of stupid reasons either - like how female highlanders are supposed to stay at home.

[CorbinDallas]

they did openly confirmed hrothgar are equal to ronso though and even made Khimari
like lalafell and dwarves

Please link me a timestamp where they say "Hrothgar are literally an exact copy of the Ronso from Final Fantasy X". From what I saw, they share nothing except the name, and that is only in another dimension.

[Bonbori]

Ooooh! The new Khajiit models look interesting. Never thought ESO devs had it in them but looks like they're putting a lot of work into Elsweyr.

But back to FF14- oh... wait...?



Huh.

[Theodric]

no male viera because of lore
the same lore that says beast races aren't allowed in the city states

Beast Tribes. Presumably Hrothgar aren't considered as such.