Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
the race isnt male only, they cut the females because vierra makes money. The females exist, we just dont get to play them because Fans wanted vierra more. Also "hyper masculine" is a human way of looking at things. evolutionarily, large creatures exist because they have an advantage being large. They dont need to be male or female. We got large elephants, lions, rhinos, whales etc.
Large creatures don't exist because being large is some advantage. Humans, relatively speaking, aren't large and we rule the entire planet.

Males grow larger than females because they fight one another for mates. That's why I said it would be extremely interesting to explore a race that didn't have that sort of dynamic - because they don't have females. How cool would it be to have a race where there's no competition for mates, their reproduction is some... whatever magical excuse they come up with (reincarnation ala Galka)... and they can concentrate on really building a rich lore based on male camaraderie and friendship? I don't see that it's ever really been done.

If it is true that Hrothgar females exist but aren't playable because they aren't allowed to leave caves... Well that's pretty sexist. So is the idea that male Viera are similarly oppressed.

All of it could have been avoided by actually thinking about how this would be received by fans and thinking about how to add a race to the game that was meaningful. Adding Viera might have been a response to fan requests, but that doesn't mean they get a free pass on actually bringing the new race into the game in a meaningful way and without alienating players. Tacking on hyper-masculine cat men seems... lazy at best.