Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[BillyKaplan]

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.

On the forums, in Q&As, on PLLs, in conventions, in interviews...
If they thought people were annoying about unlocking the bunny outfit, WOO BOY.

[Emmanellain]

On the forums, in Q&As, on PLLs, in conventions, in interviews...
If they thought people were annoying about unlocking the bunny outfit, WOO BOY.

To be completely honest, their marketing team should've probably poked Yoshi on the shoulder and whispered "you know, this might create a new demand for female Hrothgar, and people will just want male Viera more"
If genderlocking gearsets was a hotbutton issue, locking genders will create even more outrage.
Especially when the "we don't have previously existing reference" won't cut it when they've already created concepts people have raved about since 2.0, and the original Viera creator even gave them his blessing.
Heck the "Hrothgar came first" explanation has been shot down as well, as Yoshi is saying they came first, then indirectly saying they were intended to replace male Viera after making the female Viera.

"We did consider Male Viera instead of adding an extra race, but we tried to take player feedback on adding a more beast like race as well as the strong desire to receive Viera. We did expect strong feedback on the gender lock. It was a tough decision, but we decided to do our best to meet both the player feedback and our development team’s vision. It will be very costly to add a new race or genders. So I won’t say no, but I would not like to set expectations high." - Yoshi P

You'd think as a company SE would take advantage of the mystery surrounding male Viera, as old players who played alongside Fran in 2006 and other Viera games onward might want to see what the males are like and pick up an MMO for the first time. That and, well, handsome/cute races have the highest play rate in this MMO.