Gender locked race?

[Alesone]

[Jeibird]

I would like to add to the pile of feedback and politely voice my own displeasure with gender locked races, especially after the declaration that they would attempt to limit genderlocking in the future after adding the male bunny suit items.

And not to get too political but having yet another popular mmo with a big, complexly designed, and feature-interesting muscle bound dude race with an underdressed sexy female only race is also a bit much. I really thought they were better than this.

[Corue]

I feel bad for Ronso. Would have been cool if they came as their own separate race, but since they've come as a "replacement" for another race's gender they'll be shunned by the greater community for taking it away.
If they just made both Viera genders and released Ronso at a later date none of this backlash would happen.
#ronsodidnothingwrong

[BiddyBatnana]

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

Because they added Fran to their lore I guess.

[RikkCavalier]

They've already made this mistake in 1.0 for those of us who have really been devout fans and witnessed firsthand with male miq and fem roe. I will log on and post every day until they add both sexes for each race and I encourage those who feel strongly enough to do the same. /day 1

[Aurou]

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

Because if you talk to the Wandering Dramaturge on the Prima Vista in Kugane, you can read Viera lore. It's already in the game beyond just Fran showing up.

[NellMoshroca]

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

They literally look identical to Ronso and share a name. What more do you need, an alliance raid?

[Em_Tibbett]

Genderlocked races after this long? Didn't they learn from the disappointment with Au Ra gender dimorphism, catboys, roe ladies, all of it????

Incredibly disappointing, hoping they change their minds.

Edit 9/2019: After all the information that came out, I get it. I know why they did what they did. And I would much rather have a dev team that doesn't overwork themselves than two full new races.

[Miniimu]

Popping into voice my displeasure as well.

Gender locked races are disappointing across the board. Didn't they already fix this exact mistake in 2.0 with the Male Miqo and Female Roe/Highlanders? I can't believe they did the same thing again. If they'd come out and said 'hey we're not ready to do female Hrothgar/male Viera but we have plans to' it'd probably have done a lot to quell the storm, as it were. But here we are. In 2019 and thinking gender locked races are acceptable lmao.

The worst timeline.

[Thefates]

Because they added Fran to their lore I guess.

They showed a "khimari-like" Hrothgar next to an image of Fran today too, don't forget. So even that looks like it won't be an excuse. Even when there is one it seems like it'll have to be pretty bull.