Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

Sooooooo that person who called people dumb for calling them Ronso, but they're literally called Ronso in the alternate shard. SE employee officially trolling us with leaks XD?

Also oof on the gender lock but I guess it was one of the plausible realities so I'm not too shocked. Shocked dancer is not healer though, that took me by more surprise.. Wonder if this Gaia hammer job will turn out to be a healer?

Would hope people who wanted the gender lock undone can stay civil (and resilient), I feel that it would be plausible that SE unlocks them later. . . unless the explicit reason they're locked is because one or both of the big devs recoiled so hard they put their foot down in which case good luck @_@.

Would certainly be awesome to see the male Viera and female Ronso.

Quite a lot of people have requested a playable race along the lines of the Ronso over the years. It just so happens that whenever they were brought up the same sort of scathing commentary and rage you see in response to the gender lock was thrown their way. I would have preferred them to be a bit closer to Byakko in terms of design, though I'm very happy for those who I know wanted a 'bestial' playable race. Which isn't a small number at all.

I had to re-read my post to make sure I didn't sound like I came in gloating.. Because I'm not happy some people are sad, but I did think it was cool they actually went through with making Ronso.

For the two clans, unlikely, but very cool if the Ronso race had a Byakko like body option (given the sliders and such- they did talk about how much advanced customization these two races will have).

[Gwenorai]

Sooooooo that person who called people dumb for calling them Ronso, but they're literally called Ronso in the alternate shard. SE employee officially trolling us with leaks XD?


Also oof on the gender lock but I guess it was one of the plausible realities so I'm not too shocked. Shocked dancer is not healer though, that took me by more surprise.. Wonder if this Gaia hammer job will turn out to be a healer?

Would hope people who wanted the gender lock undone can stay civil (and resilient), I feel that it would be plausible that SE unlocks them later. . . unless the explicit reason they're locked is because one or both of the big devs recoiled so hard they put their foot down in which case good luck @_@. Would certainly be cool to see the male Viera and female Ronso.

-shakes fist at you-

It was you all along! Nah, grats though - but yeah, bad times.

[Thefates]

Sooooooo that person who called people dumb for calling them Ronso, but they're literally called Ronso in the alternate shard. SE employee officially trolling us with leaks XD?


Also oof on the gender lock but I guess it was one of the plausible realities so I'm not too shocked. Shocked dancer is not healer though, that took me by more surprise.. Wonder if this Gaia hammer job will turn out to be a healer?

Would hope people who wanted the gender lock undone can stay civil (and resilient), I feel that it would be plausible that SE unlocks them later. . . unless the explicit reason they're locked is because one or both of the big devs recoiled so hard they put their foot down in which case good luck @_@. Would certainly be cool to see the male Viera and female Ronso.

That's my ideal solution really, getting them both at a later date, perhaps with an MSQ excuse. As it stands now this pretty heavily divides the community.

[Theodric]

For the two clans, unlikely, but very cool if the Ronso race had a Byakko like body option (given the sliders and such- they did talk about how much advanced customization these two races will have).

Yeah, I'm going to reserve my full judgement for when we get to play around with customisation options and see how they look in-game in cutscenes and such. At the end of the day, if I don't like them there are multiple playable races that I do like the look and feel of.

I hope they add a future patch to fix this, gender lock it's always been a really bad idea. I want delicate boys and strong women, I want to choose what to be. I'm a girl that plays as a handsome miqo'te. Let me choose!!! D:

You're not starved for those aesthetics. You can already customise characters to look exactly that way if you wish.

Personally I'm glad that we're getting something genuinely unique in the form of a proper 'bestial' race.

[Shougun]

Yeah, I'm going to reserve my full judgement for when we get to play around with customisation options and see how they look in-game in cutscenes and such. At the end of the day, if I don't like them there are multiple playable races that I do like the look and feel of.

That's a great idea, and also... maybe just me, I'll re-watch stuff in a little bit, but... was the lightning a bit.. too harsh and when it wasn't that it was just too "close up" on Hrothgar reveal video? We all know FFXIV could use a texture resolution increase, so when things are so close you can see the pixels, and when farther away it was like the lighting seemed to be a bit too contrasted to me.

Maybe I need to check it again but I thought to myself "I bet it'll look better on my own PC in a normal distance/ambient setting". Did you feel that?

[Tharne]

That's a great idea, and also... maybe just me, I'll re-watch stuff in a little bit, but... was the lightning a bit.. too harsh and when it wasn't that it was just too "close up" on Hrothgar reveal video? We all know FFXIV could use a texture resolution increase, so when things are so close you can see the pixels, and when farther away it was like the lighting seemed to be a bit too contrasted to me.

Maybe I need to check it again but I thought to myself "I bet it'll look better on my own PC in a normal distance/ambient setting". Did you feel that?

Yeah, the lightning in the video was really weird I thought. The first shot especially, maybe they wanted to make a "the beast is coming" kind of effect with a shadowy face but it kind of fell flat imo.
But I can't wait for the benchmark to see the customisation.

[BiddyBatnana]

Yeah, the lightning in the video was really weird I thought. The first shot especially, maybe they wanted to make a "the beast is coming" kind of effect with a shadowy face but it kind of fell flat imo.
But I can't wait for the benchmark to see the customisation.

When is the Benchmark coming out btw ?

[Tharne]

When is the Benchmark coming out btw ?

SB's benchmark came out May 1st for a June 20th release so I'd say near mid-May.

[Theodric]

That's a great idea, and also... maybe just me, I'll re-watch stuff in a little bit, but... was the lightning a bit.. too harsh and when it wasn't that it was just too "close up" on Hrothgar reveal video? We all know FFXIV could use a texture resolution increase, so when things are so close you can see the pixels, and when farther away it was like the lighting seemed to be a bit too contrasted to me.

Maybe I need to check it again but I thought to myself "I bet it'll look better on my own PC in a normal distance/ambient setting". Did you feel that?

I felt it too, though I suspect we'll see improvements made between now and Shadowbringers. I do hope that there's work on enhancing customisation across the board in the future for every playable race, though.

Actually after translating a bunch of Japanese posts on twitter about viera it seems the fanbase there isn't exactly happy either.

Twitter is something of an echo chamber in many cases, thus best taken with a pinch of salt.