Gender locked race?

[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.

[NellMoshroca]

Super disappointed with the genderlock on the races. Hoping that Square will remedy this by patching in the male and female genders respectively in the 5.x series.

Instead of releasing another limited job no one will play within a few weeks they can add male viera and female hrothgar in one of the 5.x patches.

[Lauront]

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.

It doesn't change my answer, who specifically makes the decision. The company as a whole is the outfit putting together and tendering the product and I maintain that they remain free to do so on terms they are willing to do so. However, the comment I quoted was about a developer's own preferences factoring in, in any case.

[Thefates]

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

That's asinine and you know it, for that point there was no reason to make Viera female only either.

[CorbinDallas]

That's asinine and you know it, for that point there was no reason to make Viera female only either.

No, what's asinine is the fact you people assume that similarity/reference = exact copy.

[Dawncaller]

Reposting this from the other thread just to voice my displeasure: I literally have never posted on the official forum before, and registered JUST to voice my displeasure with the introduction of gender-locked races. It's profoundly regressive and utterly frustrating. Please consider adding male Viera and female Hrothgar. I'm so tired of hulking male races and willowy female races in games. I was ready to throw my money at fantasia to become a bunny-boy and that money is gone now.

[Freyt]

There are certain aspects of stories that you expect to exist.


You expect a beginning, middle, and end. You also expect that if there are men, then there must also be women, and vice versa. If there isn't, there should be a damn good explanation.


For an MMO, you expect to be able to play both as a man or a woman. MMO's don't necessarily even have a beginning, middle, or end, but at the very least being able to play as a man or a woman has been a necessity from the very beginning of MMO's. It's even sometimes a feature in single player games, let alone multi player.


For the lore not to facilitate it is no excuse, because those who are putting it in the game are those who are responsible for the lore.


Even GW2 gave you female Charr, or abominations as I like to call them, but at least they exist. GW1 female Charr looked closely identical to male Charr, which was acceptable enough to me. However we don't have that here.


In the end, a player who is playing a Ronso or a Viera cannot have a straight same race eternal bond, which seems somewhat ridiculous.

[decoratibo]

I'm legitimately curious about this - who actually asked for or wanted the Hrothgar?

[Thefates]

No, what's asinine is the fact you people assume that similarity/reference = exact copy.

Okay then, why did the Viera have to use their "existing lore" as an excuse for their female only status then?

[BiddyBatnana]

I'm legitimately curious about this - who actually asked for or wanted the Hrothgar?

I didn't ask for them but I do want them now