Gender locked race?

[Thefates]

With this community? There would be a riot either way. Yoship went with what he wanted to, and this reaction pretty much makes sure "final race" is more final than what the forum might want to believe.

Keep in mind. You can be happy or sad about getting a race you want. No one is happy about a genderlock though, the default reaction is indifference and it only goes downhill from there. Yes, there would be people disappointed by not getting Hrothgar or Viera, but there would be far less people so absolutely outraged.

[Tabbs]

Can I ask how you cancelled it? I ordered on the SE NA shop and it's not letting me cancel my pre-order.

Did you redeem your code for the aetheryte earring? I may be wrong, but I think that forfeits right to refund, unfortunately.

[KittenMittens]

I read this, and I am constantly amazed at how forums are capable of convincing themselves of things that haven't been announced. This is a post of someone experiencing straight-up betrayal; a betrayal of a sandcastle they built up inside their own head.

Because the director of the game couldn't be upfront and honest about this gender lock to the community from the start instead of hiding it like a dirty secret for months until he could no longer?

[seros]

With this community? There would be a riot either way. Yoship went with what he wanted to, and this reaction pretty much makes sure "final race" is more final than what the forum might want to believe.

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Let's not be daft here, you know very well that the outrage would be less if we got two genders of a race we knew we were getting verses not getting a race we never knew about.

[enaykin]

Adding my voice to the group of players upset by the decision to gender lock the races. It didn't work before and it's not going to work now. Please reconsider and reverse this decision, Square.

[van_arn]

Because the director of the game couldn't be upfront and honest about this gender lock to the community from the start instead of hiding it like a dirty secret for months until he could no longer?

And if he had been upfront about it, he could either say males weren't getting anything OR he'd have to blow the lid on content he was saving for this fanfest.

A straight up no comment is the best solution in this case, actually. People reading too far into "no comment" is the problem here.

[RikkCavalier]

I read this, and I am constantly amazed at how forums are capable of convincing themselves of things that haven't been announced. This is a post of someone experiencing straight-up betrayal; a betrayal of a sandcastle they built up inside their own head.

Honey, the second post to the OP are concept pictures of a Female Viera AND Male Viera. And they've only implemented one gender. They may have not outright said there will be Male Viera. But instead they released a female trailer, and said NOTHING about Male Viera. We were left in the dark, really. Perhaps, they're still working on the design?, or perhaps they need more time? They wouldn't make the same 1.0 mistake all over again, would they? It's like we're fighting for gender rights and civil rights in game and irl. It just gets old if anything. But again, those people who say they're content, will stop posting. For those who want to fight for what they believe in, keep posting. Every day. And when they close the forum, start a new one.

[Kazran]

Let's not be daft here, you know very well that the outrage would be less if we got two genders of a race we knew we were getting verses not getting a race we never knew about.

Exactly if this had just been male and female Viera most of the attention would be on the fact that "hey Final Fantasy finally showed Male Viera! Isn't that cool?" and would have probably have FF fans outside the XIV fan base talking too!

[Endeleon]

Did you redeem your code for the aetheryte earring? I may be wrong, but I think that forfeits right to refund, unfortunately.

Ugh, yes. GDI. I wasn't exactly expecting to be insanely disappointed. But they managed it.

[van_arn]

Exactly if this had just been male and female Viera most of the attention would be on the fact that "hey Final Fantasy finally showed Male Viera! Isn't that cool?" and would have probably have FF fans outside the XIV fan base talking too!

No, that's in your head again. Outside of the game people would be thinking "Ugh, bunnyboys. What's with that, and why does everyone there look so metro"

Source: I talk with people outside of the game coming from other games, and the lack of cool hypermasculine characters is actually a turnoff. Roegadyn are just... not percieved as cool, due to their old man and green skin aesthetic.

Now we get freaking tiger wrestlers.