Gender locked race?

[Idha]

I am strongly against having gender-locked races like this. The Male Viera concept art had a unique build and was highly requested. There is no ground in using lore to reason it. Additionally, denying a female version of the only beastly race is a dated concept.

[RikkCavalier]

I am strongly against having gender-locked races like this. The Male Viera concept art had a unique build and was highly requested. There is no ground in using lore to reason it. Additionally, denying a female version of the only beastly race is a dated concept.

This ↑. And I agree with the character model builds that the original concept art showed for the Male Vieras. The Female Roth will definitely be the stockier female build than any of the other races, I just really hope they fix the eyes and the over all quality of the Rothgar face. I posted earlier in the thread about the big differences between the faces shown on the Viera trailer versus the faces on the Roth trailer. But ultimately, everyone will be happy if both races are added. /Day 8

[dustyace]

Viera males and Hrothgar females!!! Let them out, Square!

[Iromi]

I'm all for adding more stuff

I was surprised they decided no Male viera for now after how many people were looking forward to them on here.

[Levy9]

I guess they chose they'd rather face the genderlock riot than going for the good ol' gaming trope:




At least being genderlocked gives the possibility of the other gender to still be added, but if Hrothgar were indeed male Viera, the 7 hells would've unleashed.

Not to sound snarky, but if the fans genuinely didn't like fantasy tropes, they wouldn't have demanded Viera. Not that I'm judging. It's just apparent to me that the Viera female design is a trope design in and of itself, regardless of what is done with the males. It's the old supermodel women in high heels/playboy bunny trope. Making the men smaller/shorter/thinner, etc doesn't change that. Roger Rabbit didn't make Jessica Rabbit any less of a trope. :P

[Nestama]

I'm all for adding more stuff

I was surprised they decided no Male viera for now after how many people were looking forward to them on here.

Mainly because they were originally just working on the Hrothgar (likely for over 2 years if interviews imply anything), but then decided to work on the female Viera (instead of female Hrothgar) because people have been requesting them for years and they already had the character reference for them.

[MagiusNecros]

As long as they don't pull any genderlocked job class tomfoolery I don't care what they do.

Femroe is the best race and gender combination anyway.

[RikkCavalier]

Show your support for no gender locked races! /day 9

[RikkCavalier]

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down... ♪ /day 10



Concept by: Vhyrel

[Nestama]

Rick, out of curiosity; are you going to be posting in this thread daily just to show how many days its been since Fan Fest? I'm pretty sure SE/Yoshi-P are fully aware of the issue at this point, as well as the threads calling favour for both male Viera and female Hrothgar (they have over 1k likes). They're not gonna suddenly make the two races genders become playable on 5.0 release day. We likely won't see them until 6.0 (for the hopeful, 5.4).