Quote Originally Posted by SunAurel View Post
They still want our money tho.
Genderlocking is extremely unpopular by default.
Says who? The majority of people I've seen discuss it in game and in youtube videos couldn't care less either way.

In other games classes are gender locked because apparently guys can't heal.
Are those games successful?

Imagine if Dancer was a female only class and they introduce a bs explanation "the dance academy doesn't accept men :/" would you still defend it?
Defend it? Probably not. Care enough about it to start petitions and threaten to quit playing? Absolutely not.

The explanation for no male viera got changed from "lore" to "resources" because lore didn't hold ground when male keepers are playable.
Resources? Why do they create a separate fat model for miqo that also needs adjustments for clothes, bodies, faces, etc? Why do they add Hrothgar - another manly Buff and Tall race - and female viera - another cutesy race.
Lore was always a bad excuse because they own the lore and can, and have, change it however they want.

I had more respect if they had added cutesy bunny boys and tough lion ladies because then it'd be a reversal of gender expectations but the dimorphism we're seeing here are WoW levels of bad.
That sounds an awful lot like an anti gender norms agenda. And I'd laugh my ass off if SE suddenly became WoW bad. Because people think they're upset now, but just imagine how bad things could be by looking at WoW. You want to see developers who have lost touch, ignore and actually insult their fan base? Look at WoW. Comparing this situation to the dumpster fire that WoW has become is ridiculous. By the way, WoW's demise can be directly traced back to when they began giving in to the very vocal minority.

The bottom line is I'm thankful SE is putting out a new expansion and that they're willing to try something different. I may or may not change to one of the new races when they come out. Depends on my mood at the time. I really, really hope they don't cave on this issue. But if they do I hope it isn't at the expense of some of the more serious changes the game could use. Either way the sun will still rise the following day.