Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[xbahax92]

That's my two cents, and this is coming from someone who reaaaalllllyy wants male viera. I have a feeling they'll deliver, but it's not the end of the world for me if we don't get it.

I believe the outcry intensified especially cause we were about to discover male Viera, which have never seen before. I still think there would be "unlock genders" for any race, be it Hrothgar, Viera, Bangaa, Ival. Moogles or [insert your wish]. Some people were waiting for months, some even since years because the request for a playable Viera race started even before Au ra got implemented. We are talking about 3-4 years now.

I still think some people overreacted, like they always do. This happened with Eureka too. Bluemage. But imo, asking in a friendly manner, supportive and patiently way will help much more than canceling subs and posting it in the OF. The mog station is actually asking for the reason when canceling the sub, which should be viewed as feedback.

[Kazran]

I support Male Viera and Female Hrothgar!

I still question the validity of the 'Lore' keeping Viera males forever in the forest. Especially since ffxiv has it own lore separate from 12 and the other Ivalice games.

Why has no Male ever tried to leave the forest.
Why from birth to death has not a single Male never deviated from this at all?
Why do they not have the freewill to choose?
Who is taking their freewill in this?
Isn't it bad to take someone's choice away?
Are make Viera okay? Do they need rescue?


Every member of a populace conforming exactly to the culture is more unbelievable then They never leave cus reasons!

[LillithCale]

Yeah I've tried to see in the JP forum with translate but they hardly write in there, If anyone locates their thread could they link it so we can read through it? I've yet to find it.

I linked it a little while back but this thread moves at the speed of light haha

I'm not sure if anyone has linked this yet but the JP community has their own thread on the subject:

Regarding the Japanese playerbase reactions

I also posted in their thread and linked ours for male viera and femaw hrothgar

[Chasely]

some even since years because the request for a playable Viera race started even before Au ra got implemented. We are talking about 3-4 years now.

The viera race hype has been going on since closed beta, 7+ years ago. it all started when SE created a poll asking what new races we wanted implemented. One of the options was a beast race with viera as a sample. it was by far the most popular option.

Yoshi-P said using Viera as an example was a mistake, since he didn't want to add the viera race to the game, but the hype never truly went away. It was brought up over and over again in closed beta, open beta, and in several threads since the main game launched. And yeah, people were upset when the au'ra were released because Viera was by far the most requested race option. from the beginning we were all excited about the notion of specifically playing bunny boys.

They've known all of this for almost a decade.

[MrKimper]

Almost at 1500, don't forget to share this.

[username1234]

That actually looks great I think you should put it in the OP too. If you already did it looks like the link is broken.

[Novia]

I'm supportive of adding male Viera to the game, especially how they have been envisioned here.

[Rollout]

I support the idea of male Viera being similar to the female Viera, with minimal sexual dimorphism present. Males being a few inches taller and with a little more muscle makes sense to me.

[Sated]

It's already very disappointing how much of the gear is gender-locked, it's a huge step backwards to gender-lock races again too.

Especially for something like viera where so much of the excitement about having them added was specifically so we could finally see the males of their race.

[Madiera]

Nearly 1500 likes! Wow keep it up people!

I support our collected stance against gender locking. I shall now quote someone from a similar Reddit thread that I thought was both on topic and informative.

"Also, it's always explicitly implied the WoL (WoD now?) is an adventurer and adventurers generally buck tradition and cultural norms. Most Lalafell are merchants of some kind and mostly in Ul'dah - but you can still be a greatsword wielding crazy popoto who signed up with the Adders to fight the Empire. The PC in almost every game is a cultural exception due to necessity. While a Male Miqote player can CHOOSE to RP out the N'uhn climb liftstyle, most don't and the main plot-line certainly gives you little time for it.

This implies not even a single male Viera ever decides to leave their seclusion to seek adventure or life elsewhere. And that's ridiculous."

I also will hope that the missing genders will be added in, hopefully sooner rather than later, in patches similar to how NIN and BLU were added to the game.