Gender locked race?

[Renali16]

What is this "customization out the rear" you speak of?

Certainly isn't in the character creation. There are more hairstyles than anything else, but whatever the new one is is the one you'll see the most anyways.

Not just character creation but even glamour opens up the field for it too. Maybe it's not "out of the rear" but you can't tell me there's a small dip of it.

[Kazran]

IF anything they could add the males and females in a later patch.

[Solenne]

Adding my voice to the general cry for male Viera and female Hrothgar. Creating a hypersexualized female race and a hypermasculine male race does not look good. It's 2019. We can have male bunnies and female strong cats. It's okay. The world is ready, and your fandom is literally begging here.

[RikkCavalier]

Please add both genders for Viera and Hrothgar. Then everyone wins! /day 3

[EvilAlina]

I'm not happy either race is gender locked.
If this is just a temporary thing so that the expansion and the new races don't need to be delayed, that's fine. Give us what's finished and release the other genders later, but gender locking an entire race is always always a bad idea.
We already saw it backfire with XI.
I love Final Fantasy and I've been playing XIV since beta, so I'll give the benefit of the doubt and hope that male viera and female hrothgar will come out later...but I am legitimately disappointed.

[Noitems]

We don’t get 5 new races because it’s overkill and no one seriously wants that. lol

Yeah, I'd much rather have them focus on a smaller amount to make sure they're refined then have 5 disasters all at once.

[wereotter]

Please add both genders for Viera and Hrothgar. Then everyone wins! /day 3

If only it were that simple.... but even earlier in this thread there was disagreement about what the male Viera should look like. People will still be unhappy with the final execution if it's not the male viera they imagined in their heads.

[Conquistadork]

I think people aren't seen the big picture here. People have been pestering the devs about Viera and a beastly looking race for years, and now they finally deliver, and as always people aren't happy.

They wanted to add more variety to the game by adding 2 different races than just one. The whole gender locked thing is more an issue of time constraint than them not wanting to add the gender counterparts. Yoshi P. even said something really interesting in the keynote: "They won't be adding new races in the future expansions" which means that they will need to add something good on next expansions for people to actually buy them, so they will save the gender counter parts for either the next expansion, or the next big patch.

Instead of going mad and doing crusades all over the forums, try to be patient, I'm sure the bunny boys will come in the future. They are just saving them as new content for future expansions. This expansion was the turn of female Viera and Male Hrothar (or whatever they are called).

[Gwenorai]

I think people aren't seen the big picture here. People have been pestering the devs about Viera and a beastly looking race for years, and now they finally deliver, and as always people aren't happy.

They wanted to add more variety to the game by adding 2 different races than just one. The whole gender locked thing is more an issue of time constraint than them not wanting to add the gender counterparts. Yoshi P. even said something really interesting in the keynote: "They won't be adding new races in the future expansions" which means that they will need to add something really interesting on next expansions for people to actually buy them, which means that they will save the gender counter parts for either the next expansion, or the next big patch.

Instead of going mad and doing crusades all over the forums, try to be patient, I'm sure the bunny boys will come in the future. They are just saving them as new content for future expansions. This expansion was the turn of female Viera and Male Hrothar (or whatever they are called).

I wish I could believe this; I really do. I don't wish to get my hopes up until there is some sort of confirmation. Lack of confirmation last time resulted in this hype and the let down that came with it.

[Mael-bess]

I think people aren't seen the big picture here. People have been pestering the devs about Viera and a beastly looking race for years, and now they finally deliver, and as always people aren't happy.

They wanted to add more variety to the game by adding 2 different races than just one. The whole gender locked thing is more an issue of time constraint than them not wanting to add the gender counterparts. Yoshi P. even said something really interesting in the keynote: "They won't be adding new races in the future expansions" which means that they will need to add something really interesting on next expansions for people to actually buy them, which means that they will save the gender counter parts for either the next expansion, or the next big patch.

That could be true....but why?
Why would they add 2 incomplete races in 1 expansion just so they can complete it in the next as opposed to just add 1 complete race in each.
They're just throwing themselves at the wolves for no reason.