Gender Locks Have Revealed the Worst in Players.

[Wijnand]

I do not have my heart set on playing a Viera or a Hrothgar of either gender, but I'll tell you one thing.

It's utterly unacceptable that SE is being allowed to skate by the community with incomplete crap. They should be held to higher standards than this, regardless of whether you wanted to play a Viera or a Hrothgar.

Cutting corners and launching half-finished features are why the Realm had to be Reborn in the first place. Why are we, collectively, as a community, letting them get away with this? Why are we falling down on our end of the responsibility of keeping the developers in check?

Put aside your own personal politics and biases long enough to see that we're all being screwed.

And what if I told you... It was never promised? they were adding vierra but nowhere did they ever commit to it being both genders.

[Seraphor]

I do not have my heart set on playing a Viera or a Hrothgar of either gender, but I'll tell you one thing.

It's utterly unacceptable that SE is being allowed to skate by the community with incomplete crap. They should be held to higher standards than this, regardless of whether you wanted to play a Viera or a Hrothgar.

Cutting corners and launching half-finished features are why the Realm had to be Reborn in the first place. Why are we, collectively, as a community, letting them get away with this? Why are we falling down on our end of the responsibility of keeping the developers in check?

Put aside your own personal politics and biases long enough to see that we're all being screwed.

Would you rather we got Viera of both genders, but no Hrothgar?

Can you explain why that would have been better than what we're getting to those who want to play as male Hrothgar?

[Kallera]

Would you rather we got Viera of both genders, but no Hrothgar?

Can you explain why that would have been better than what we're getting to those who want to play as male Hrothgar?

Hrothgar wasn't even a blip on the fanbase's radar until the glitch involving their name popped up. We were all expecting viera, and both genders was assumed to be a given since we though SE had "known better"

[Seraphor]

Hrothgar wasn't even a blip on the fanbase's radar until the glitch involving their name popped up. We were all expecting viera.

But people have been requesting more bestial races, and Ronso has been one of the more popular suggestions.
I know I'd be disappointed if the 'last' race we ever got wasn't a masculine one and I had to continue to choose between Wreck-it-Ralph and Lizardman.

[xbahax92]

Hrothgar wasn't even a blip on the fanbase's radar until the glitch involving their name popped up. We were all expecting viera, and both genders was assumed to be a given since we though SE had "known better"

Not to forget our leaker friends which amuse themselves on this fest.

Tbh. Me as a customer and player can ask for unlocking the genders as much as anyone who wants more content, cosmetics, marry their retainers or whatever people wish for.

It all depends if its worth the budget and the resources and its not anyones decision but SE. If they agree feedback is large enough, the conclusion means sales for Fantasias will increase = profit.

[Kallera]

But people have been requesting more bestial races, and Ronso has been one of the more popular suggestions.
I know I'd be disappointed if the 'last' race we ever got wasn't a masculine one and I had to continue to choose between Wreck-it-Ralph and Lizardman.

Now the "last" race we ever got is an incomplete corner cutted package, and the lore will suffer for it. It just might even prompt for more work and certainly left people thinking they were led on in order to try an dodge controversy and secure preorders. If this was the last race they wanted to do, this is poor way of doing it. Simply doing one of the races, preferably the more popular one being talked about consistently as wanted, would have been a better way to put a cap on things. Now? They are left with the demands for finishing the two races they half conpleted.

[Seraphor]

Now the "last" race we ever got is an incomplete corner cutted package, and the lore will suffer for it. It just might even prompt for more work and certainly left people thinking they were led on in order to try an dodge controversy and secure preorders. If this was the last racr they wanted to do, this is poor way of doing it. Simply doing one of the races, preferably the more popular one being talked about consistently as wanted, would have been better.

The 'last' race we've got, has hope for being expanded into two complete ones.
If we had just got the one, that'd be it and we'd never see the other.
It'll be considerably easier to fill in the other genders in 6.0, than to create entire new race. Still a lot of work, but less than the alternative, and they have said they will review the feedback and consider it.

Or maybe they should've just added Hrothgar.

[Crushnight]

Hrothgar wasn't even a blip on the fanbase's radar until the glitch involving their name popped up. We were all expecting viera, and both genders was assumed to be a given since we though SE had "known better"

To add to this remember Au Ra implementation in HW other than Yugiri who gave us insight they might hail from Doma and can be ninjas we knew next to nothing about her race, some people did not like how poorly integrated they were into ffxiv and yet they are implementing Hrothgar with less than that we have nothing literal nothing in game to say big burly animalistic looking spoken humanoids exist in game, it's rather baffling how bad it is.

[Floortank]

I don't consider this to be a big enough slight that I'd drop my sub over it. Besides that I'm not aware of any other way to not "let them get away with this."

Yoshi P's team is exceptional in the field of MMORPGs in that it has allowed the community to aid in the development process. Community feedback has always been essential to this game. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

And what if I told you... It was never promised? they were adding vierra but nowhere did they ever commit to it being both genders.

Why are you telling me this? I don't care whether those races get added or not. I care about complete, high quality features, not rushed, corner cut, incomplete games that I'm paying full price for.

Would you rather we got Viera of both genders, but no Hrothgar?

Can you explain why that would have been better than what we're getting to those who want to play as male Hrothgar?

A complete feature is better than an incomplete feature. It's better, in principle, to demand that SE give us higher quality content, because if we accept crap, the bar gets lowered and the game gets worse. It has happened in the history of every MMORPG ever. Unfinished, rushed content is what killed the original FFXIV, and it's also what killed FFXV.

Some of you may not care about male viera or female hrothgar, but you're being short sighted. Pay them for half finished crap, and one day they'll stint on something you really do want.

[Dualgunner]

Yoshi P's team is exceptional in the field of MMORPGs in that it has allowed the community to aid in the development process. Community feedback has always been essential to this game. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

Well good for you they're already looking into feedback on this. So what's with all the "They can't be allowed to skate by" stuff?