Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Emmanellain]

I don't understand why people is pushing for a playable male Viera so much. It's not the first time Square-Enix done a gender locked races look at Mithra and Galka in Final Fantasy XI.

Basically, a lot of people who grew up with SE games have seen male Viera as a mystery since 2006, and a lot of us hoped for an exclusive FFXIV take on it that would be playable.
Yoshi P said back when ARR just came out that the gender locks in 1.0 was bad design, and that they moved away from that principle altogether, which they have followed until now.
They used the Viera as an example when doing a poll over which races players would like back when deciding the races for ARR, it had the highest percentage, clearly showing the demand for the race.
They showed concepts back in 2.0 showing they had considered Viera for a time before moving to Au Ra. (males included in design)
They implemented Male Viera lore into the game during the ivalice raid series.
Yoshi P showed up with a bugs bunny shirt. bugs is male (it's a bit of a stretch but I'm adding it here anyway.)
After the reveal of the female Viera when they were asked about the males they pointed to the in-game lore - and then hinted at Tokyo FanFest right before pre orders launched.

Then come Tokyo FanFest 2019 they show Hrothgar when almost everyone expected male Viera.
Now thanks to people requesting it, they've announced that they're open for feedback. So Male Viera and Female Hrothgar posts will probably become a constant request on the forums until they happen or we get a concrete no from SE.

As a sidenote:
The claims of sexism by a loud minority etc. mostly stem from this which I find ridiculous but I'm just gonna amass as much scources into this for future readers.
Do correct me if I'm wrong and I'll edit the message accordingly.