Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Nonsese, to be honest. They look only at the fact that they have only one thread on forum and it's 13 pages which is "meh" for them I suppose. Meanwhile, JP forum isn't very active overall and their section is 5 time smaller than EN (DE and FR are nearly dead). So, looking at how much they usually write and how much likes posts there usually have I can say that JP community is bothered. But there is no any fights, they are calm and polite.

Agreed. I think it's just an effort to divide the community and try make the EU/NA playerbase seem hysterical or entitled.

[zeylos]

I personally would be dissatisfied with such a general announcement, and they would be wrong to release it without more details like at least a time frame. As Yoshida said and we're all aware of it, it's a massive undertaking. They'd need to allocate resources, be it from the team itself or backups SE would allocate, and those things take time to plan out internally, all the more so if they truly will receive outside help. And to get that, it means they need to properly put together all the feedback, all the data from people who already cancelled their preorders and their subscriptions, so they can come to SE higherups and say "look, this is already costing us money, help us fight this".

I should hope we'll get a statement along those lines during April, certainly before ShB itself is released. It would make sense for them to do so because then they can still enjoy some extra orders, be it from people rebuying it or just people who waited until after the Fanfests and now would think it's 'safe' enough to buy.
But anything less than that would be irresponsible of them.

I think you are right. Maybe they are getting help and if they let time run a bit more, more people unsubscribe and such, they might get enough help so they can remove genderlock before launch (SE has enough employees to do it if they want to). Thanks for pointing it out to me! ^^

[LuvianBlue]

I finally made a forum account because of the way the new races shook out, so I could voice my support for seeing Male Viera and Female Hrothgar added to the game.

I really enjoy FFXIV, but the announcement of adding gender-locked races did disappoint me and put a damper on my excitement for Shadow Bringers since I was looking forward to seeing Viera added and finally seeing Male Viera.

I appreciate Yoshi P taking the time to explain their reasoning further behind the race choices after Tokyo Fan Fest, and I can understand the reasons he laid out in Mr. Happy's interview much better than the lore reason he mentioned on stage. Lore-wise we shouldn't have Female Viera either since it's forbidden to leave the forest. But the Viera lore for FFXIV was written to reflect the fact that cultures change, individuals make choices against their culture, the youth make different choices than their parents and grandparents, and the Warrior of Light is a unique individual to whom regular conventions don't apply. I don't see any reason lore would prevent Male Viera from being playable, there are so many wonderful stories that could be told to explain why they've finally come out of the shadows.

So I really hope they add them, and Female Hrothgar, down the road. It's not realistic to expect them to be in at Shadow Bringer's launch, and I wouldn't want to rush the Devs like that anyways. But I hope come 6.0 they get added. The devs work hard, I don't mind being patient

[Elithmoon]

Hey there! I had never posted here and I can't read all that because of time ;A; but a a lot of people told me to post my male viera explorations I did just for fun in here! hope y'all like it!





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[Lauront]

Some art I stumbled upon on reddit:

[Crushnight]

Hey there! I had never posted here and I can't read all that because of time ;A; but a a lot of people told me to post my male viera explorations I did just for fun in here! hope y'all like it!





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Love them especially the 1st one and bottom one of the 4 <3

[Lauront]

It is nice art, but I like the one in the upper half of the picture best.

[Kazran]

I'm personally hoping Viera look like this art work by FrischeNq! So much so, I made it my signature!



Elezen are just so stiff, their rectangular shaped bodies don't look very good and make alot of gear look meh imo. They are like... Long Midlanders and their Faces are pointed and not nearly as strong as I would like! Also they have necks for days! Really to me the only similarity between Elezen and Viera would be that they are tall!

I would love for them to be more athletic and masculine looking then Elezen, more elegant!

[jake200135]

Hey there! I had never posted here and I can't read all that because of time ;A; but a a lot of people told me to post my male viera explorations I did just for fun in here! hope y'all like it!





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OMFG I love their damn faces!! I love that they have more rabbit like noses in the second picture. I'm also loving the chest and shoulder tufts on two of them.

[Senn]

I'm also loving the chest and shoulder tufts on two of them.

Personally, I really don't like the chest hair. I have a feeling SE is going to add male viera with the fur, though. If they do, I really hope there's an option to remove it completely, or a slider to at least minimize it.