Matsuno had nothing at all to do with the decision to genderlock Viera

[MrKimper]

Wasn't sure if this had been posted here yet, and I thought we needed another topic about male viera:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...valice_series/

This is all on Yoshi. :v Can't say it was the result of Matsuno wanting to preserve the lore or anything like that. I knew my boy Matsuno wouldn't do me like that and people shouldn't have been trying to shift the blame onto him. So let's spare Matsuno our wrath.

I wouldn't blame yoshida, honestly I'm more suspicious of the CEO who has had a hand in both XV and KH 3 being borderline extended DEMO's of games. Noticed how he started showing up at fanfests the moment XV seemed to be dying? and was there to promote BLU(with a costume that didn't even match the in game model)

[Reila_Circus]

I wouldn't blame yoshida, honestly I'm more suspicious of the CEO who has had a hand in both XV and KH 3 being borderline extended DEMO's of games. Noticed how he started showing up at fanfests the moment XV seemed to be dying? and was there to promote BLU(with a costume that didn't even match the in game model)

I'm actually gonna agree with this, I think it was a higher-ups decision rather than the team at large. I would've also speculated they were trying something different as well, but the higher ups getting more involved seems to be the case seeing as we are only getting two classes one being a tank and one being a DPS, rather than the third being a healing class, it makes me feel like they are being rushed to get Shadowbringers out as soon as possible. But we will see, I'm still looking forward to the expansion.