Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
One way of taking it is that the devs are less interested in rather esoteric political arguments on the matter (particularly this nonsense with the "right side of history" vibe to it) and more interested to simply gauge demand for the race. I for one agree with him that the political arguments should stay out of the equation.

They are likely to be much more interested in metrics like whether this would affect a purchase than being preached at.



I mean, the lore doesn't prohibit them, anymore than mooncat lore prohibits male mooncats or the WoL as a WHM. It's a nonstarter. Regarding your comment about Zenos, I'm not sure how female Viera don't pose the same issue. It's a weak line of reasoning, and the devs don't seem to be dogmatically basing this on the lore... which doesn't even make the argument you think it does.
This has been said multiple times, but I'll say it again:
There's a huge difference between "There are very few Mooncats" and "Male Viera, do they even exist?".
Male Viera are a little more than legend, that's a defining characteristic of theirs that is more essential to them than "They're guys with bunny ears".
At the end of the day the request here is to break the lore that defines this character's 'cool factor' in order to have the equivalent of an Elezen wearing the bunny ears helmet.
I understand if that's something you really want, but it's just not worth it for the game in the long run and it sure as hell is not worth it for the dev team in the short term.

People want a lot of things, that doesn't mean the dev team should cave into every demand. I mean, they caved into giving us Viera, and look at the result.
I'd rather play their game than some conglomerate of ideas patched together from who can cry the loudest online.