A letter to the Devs, Producers, and whoever else has a say

[Rufalus]

I disagree with most of the backlash on the forums but this topic is well-written and made with realistic expectations. It'd be interesting if we were polled, to know what percentage of the community would rather have male viera instead of hrothgar.

I think polling ahead of time would be the best way to add races, so that the fans decide what the devs work on and have nobody to blame but themselves. Make it a popularity contest.

Deciding new jobs/roles and limited jobs could be done by player poll too. It would take away some of the surprise from fan fest announcements but the devs still get to decide lots of other stuff by themselves in secret like the story, the world design, new features and battle content.

[Kelryth]

It'd be interesting if we were polled, to know what percentage of the community would rather have male viera instead of hrothgar.

No idea on exact numbers but in the "Male Viera as a playable character! show your support" thread has 1588 likes on the op and currently sits at 2841 posts. What that says is a lot of people want playable Male Viera in some form.

[Iscah]

No idea on exact numbers but in the "Male Viera as a playable character! show your support" thread has 1588 likes on the op and currently sits at 2841 posts. What that says is a lot of people want playable Male Viera in some form.

Likes are probably an accurate(ish) count of player interest, for this forum at least, since they're unique per registered account, but the number of posts means nothing. Just a small number of people having a long discussion, and going over the same points a lot, or going off on tangents. Two or three people get into a debate, and you've got another hundred posts.

If anything, you'd be better looking at the stats of how many people posted in the topic, and what their post counts are.

[Halivel]

Likes are probably an accurate(ish) count of player interest, for this forum at least, since they're unique per registered account

Agree with this. And looking at amount of likes in main Megathread you can say it is quite loud reaction. Much more loud than it was with Eureka and BLU for example, and it's not like everyone who is interested came on forum so there is definetely more people who worries about this without actual reaction. Forum itself is a minority of community, but it's still the representation of playerbase so using likes on threads as statistic can be more or less accurate.

[BillyKaplan]

Why not consider devs vision and lore

I see you main Scholar. Should you ever run into another SCH in a party setup, please be sure to leave to ensure the lore integrity of your party.

[NoirRen]

I see you main Scholar. Should you ever run into another SCH in a party setup, please be sure to leave to ensure the lore integrity of your party.

If Devs implement my inability to be second scholar in a party i surely won't whine and spam with silly petitions. I won't even consider it major problem.
And at least your example has an impact on an actual game.
This nonexistant "genderlock" has not.

[xbahax92]

If Devs implement my inability to be second scholar in a party i surely won't whine and spam with silly petitions. I won't even consider it major problem.

No but instead you create an forum account to attack others and deplete your salt mines.

Its ok if you are against it, and by all means you can start an anti campaign if it bothers you that much.
But dont come here playing the jerk if your real problem is the people of this forum.