Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

I'm not sure why people keep pointing to an interview from SIX YEARS ago as if everyone should have known that be heart. Not everyone consumes the same amount of information outside of game. Not everyone goes to the forums, subreddits, discords, etc.

I think what bothers me more about all of this - more than the white knighting "go delete yourself" crowd, more than the "give me what i want or I will try to incite a riot" crowd, more than the "i don't care you didn't get what you wanted I DIDN'T GET WHAT I WANTED" crowd, more than the fact than the Hrothgar literally look like Roes that escaped from a Furry convention - is not so much the decisions they made, but the willingness to do it at all...

Yoshi and the dev team - all of them - they are smart people. They knew there would be backlash from this, and I don't believe for a second otherwise. To be fair, anything they did would create some level of backlash, but they knew this would be pretty polarizing. And this recent trend of making polarizing decisions is what's more concerning to me than anything else.

- BLU as limited job
- Viera genderlocked to female only
- Hrothgar genderlocked to male only
- Dancer as a Ranged DPS / No new Healer role job
- Using one of the main races as only a beast tribe in the "new land"
- Reusing / Repurposing 1.0 assets into a "new land"
- Going back on previous statement to where now not all headgear will be visible on Viera and Hrothgar

It's been one hit after another lately, and that, more than anything, is concerning to me. They went the route more likely to upset the larger group of people by genderlocking two races instead of making one or the other and not genderlocking. They went the route of putting in a limited job instead of a full job, based on whatever justifications were used on a given day for it, potentially upsetting more people than if they had either put in a full job version or not at all.

I hope something is done soon before this trashfire gets any worse.

Yep, they're taking risks all right, but not in any of the areas people have been asking them to do so. All of this has the hints of the senior management trying to see how much they can get away with on a shoestring of a budget, for one of their bigger moneymakers.