Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[MelodyCrystel]

Of course I sign it.

I wished for customizable Viera since I played as a girl / almost teenager "Final Fantasy Tactics Advance" -- oh yes, I am old, but at least no FFXII-hippster who dares to complain about stuff that originates from different optic-engines -- and am not satisfied to get only females under the current circumstances.
->How should I enjoy my perhaps-to-be-a-Viera-main, whole-heartedly, when others don't even know IF they get one day a male counterpart? I really have no idea, yet, if I even have the mental strength to change my character's race to a rabbit-lady, truth be told. After all these mistakes in 4.x - considering western players - my motivation for Shadowbringers is on a pretty low level.

(In my opinion, Stormblood was a let-down; not only because of lacking a new playable race. If I wasn't so glad about Omega's storyline involving Midgardsormr, then I couldn't name anyhing that truthfully made me happy. Ivalice is pretty, yes, but in the end just a 24-people-raid that could not entirely make my heart pound despite adding a few Bangaa and Fran--- and SE not using Ultima's Seraph-with-a-canon-under-her-dress-design left me with some disappointment, let me tell you. Furthermore, the 4.x-mainstory fails so far to have a long-lasting impact on me. I actually hope a specific *'**** Tia can change at least the last moments of Stormblood before Shadowbringers comes out.)

(Also, ignore Yoshi's excuses. Lv1-underwear for male Elezen is sexy as hell, thus the too-hot-argument is negated, and the male-Viera-lore is the same as the one of our tom-cats. Cats who exist next to female Highlanders and Roegadyn since 2.0 as playable genders, by the way. And even though people are interested into beastly races like Hrothgar / Ronso, the majority of people pick in the end rather characters that look like normal humans or those with only little animal-attributes.)

Anyways, I did it over one year ago or something like that for female Viera
- an Elezen cosplaying as good as possible a rabbit-lady; you can see some screenshots in my Eruyt-Village-remix https://youtu.be/OO0Y7KyuGMw -
and I do it now, too, for the bunny-boys.



->Full picture-size on https://www.deviantart.com/melodycry...play-790946778

[Lauront]

Do you have a link for it? Nothing that came up in google addresses it

Edit: Hello again, post limit.

Well, that was an interesting if disheartening read.



Breakdown of the feedback:
1. Genderlocks are bad
2. Using lore to justify the genderlock is bad
3. Using the Viera's genderlock to justify the Hrothgar genderlock is also bad
4. give us lion ladies and bun boys

A part of me refuses to believe they seriously didn't see this coming, which makes me wonder if some higher up wasn't pushing them in either direction. Either way, bad decisions were made with very weak justifications behind them. I hope they figure things out soon and give a clear statement about this.

Agreed, they could not have been oblivious to this. Feedback was already available beforehand. It certainly adds weight to the notion that they wanted to get the two races in by 5.0 at any cost and potentially add the missing gender later.

make them a head shorter

Yeah, no thanks.

[xbahax92]

I would suggest to use this thread for future which I wrote by myself. It's written in neutral way and has few links for old topic from 2011, for JP Forum and also for interview with Yoshida. There is no words about any kind of discrimination (because I am personally sure that it's not the issue in this particular case), no words about "lets unsub", and such. I also straightly asked to not insult other people there so I hope this thread can stay calm, constructive and positive. Still, will be understandable if this and one another big thread will remain active since they were started earlier (though I find their wording a little bit wrong in way of asking for things).

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mmurise-thread.

Because it makes totally sense to create another thread instead of focus in one all feedback and just let mod filter the good ones from bad ones.
Totally unnecessary

Edit: I love the constant stream of supporters in this thread and its increasing really fast. Its a great feeling and please keep it up!!

[Cittabun]

Definitely very sad that both races had the opposite gendered omitted under the reasoning of lore. I can maybe understand it if we didn't have previous races that break that reasoning, and also the fact that Hrothgar are Ronso... A race of both genders that live together where one gender isn't rarer than the other.

[Gwenorai]

I mean, yeah, if we get them we're going to go through the whole battle of the 'tall/slender/muscular/beautiful' vs 'small/thin/cute/adorable' again. Oh no...

I'm separating beautiful from cute because to me they don't mix.

[GuildWifi]

If we have to wait until 6.0, so be it, (or even later...) so be it, but I'd really like to see both male viera and female hrothgar at some point!

[IsisOvelia]

Can we also please get clarification on why the offical Viera Dancer artwork has the traditional Viera stilettos? https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190323062250


Yet in the actual Dancer reveal video with a player made Viera she has these hideous boat shaped clown FLAT shoes on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTHh15yJzw

Viera need to have high heels for the majority of their foot armor. Please don't tell me after genderlocking races they're also going to ruin their traditional feet.

Sad Viera.

[Gilwaethwy]

I just hope they released both the new races this way to give them time to release their other gender at some point.

I would so like to play as a male viera

[Nvaar]

Gods, yes please!

As an RPer, I had an entire character concept ready to go. I was working with my friend to introduce them IC (in-character). This really put a damper on ShB for me.

[Valenth]

Liking to show support for adding male Viera as playable option. Please add it Yoshi! ♥