Gender locked race?

[Mutemutt]

But having male Vieras would not have bashed it. They do exist. (Otherwise Vieras could not reproduce) The WoL is also someone with no defined past. Who is to say that a male Viera WoL did not just receive visions and decided that it would be better to the forest if he helps Eorzea? Or maybe he is just a Viera that never felt to be part of the forest and simply left. I mean the WoL being a male Viera would not mean that we suddenly have Viera NPCs everywhere.



Then why not just write it that no males exist because the reproduce different from us? Why tell us that males do exist but then dont give it to us?

I mean, the in game viera lore dump guy pretty much says you'll probably never see a male viera in your life time, going as far as to literally say "they do not exist to us". To then turn around and see male viera running to and fro sounds pretty "bashing" to me.

Could be they wanted to stick close to the lore from XII which pretty much does the exact same thing we see here. Really can't get anymore "Viera" than this.

[Roda]

Could be they wanted to stick close to the lore from XII which pretty much does the exact same thing we see here. Really can't get anymore "Viera" than this.[/QUOTE]

I GENUINELY cannot wait to come back in a couple years after they fixed this mistake (AGAIN) to see all the "MALE VIERA WOULDNT MAKE SENSE AND ARE STUPID" / "FEMALE HROTHGARS R UGLY" fantasia'd into one of those two, just like in the "pls give male miqo'te and female roe/highlander" request thread from 1.x

I mean, the in game viera lore dump guy pretty much says you'll probably never see a male viera in your life time, going as far as to literally say "they do not exist to us". To then turn around and see male viera running to and fro sounds pretty "bashing" to me.

Not really any worse than yugiri being afraid to show her face around your au ra character, the U tribe treating your U cat like an outsider, or a xaela telling your xaela that you're not of the steppe. (or I guess your qestir being able to use anything other than /emote). Lore is neither a chain binding the possibilities of the game, nor does it come from anywhere outside the devs' control. The wandering dramaturge is a scapegoat for the devs to say "Seee we really couldn't do this really hard thing that is hard that we don't wanna do because it's just soooo haaarrdd guuuyyyssss"