Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Nalfein]

This isn't a fight, though. Just a disagreement.
As for your last part, I do agree with that. I've already said I would like male viera the way Yoshi P envisions them. Although I do have my preferences, at the end of the day I'll take whatever it is the devs cook up. That being said, there's nothing wrong with people discussing what type of male viera they would like to see, buff or slim.

edit:
I wanted to add that we should all respect Yoshi P/the devs design even if male viera isn't up to your preferences. I'll be happy if we even get them.

Yeah my bad, I didn't word that well. I mostly agree with what you said and the part you edited is great.

[Senn]

Yeah my bad, I didn't word that well. I mostly agree with what you said and the part you edited is great.

Nothing to worry about.

Now I wonder when we'll get an announcement... Not that I'm expecting anything soon. I've seen a few people who just want to hear confirmation on male viera - they don't mind how long it takes. However, I think asking for confirmation puts Yoshi P in a hard place. There's never any guarantees so I don't think he would outright say anything. Even more so if they haven't even worked on the model.

[Theodric]

It's best to just be patient with these things. We may very well be waiting until 6.0, after all. I want to see them added at some point, but not at the cost of other aspects of the game's planned content.

[Senn]

It's best to just be patient with these things. We may very well be waiting until 6.0, after all. I want to see them added at some point, but not at the cost of other aspects of the game's planned content.

Well, assuming we get them at all, I'm going to guess maybe 2 years? Could be longer.

[zeylos]

Well, assuming we get them at all, I'm going to guess maybe 2 years? Could be longer.

I think we should be a bit more optimistic

[Laphael]

I think we should be a bit more optimistic

I think that is naive.
SE wont pull out a new race (gender) before the next expansion.
So 6.0 is the earliest and never is the latest possibility.

[zeylos]

It is certainly a possibility. They have pulled jobs and jobs take the same if not more amount of work than genders for already existing races

[MrKimper]

It is certainly a possibility. They have pulled jobs and jobs take the same if not more amount of work than genders for already existing races

To be fair, Blue mage probably had one dude working on it and Ninja was released back when ARR had basically no content, I doubt they take as much effort as modeling and animating a new racial gender.

[Valenth]

I have to say, I love how this thread is already 263 pages long. That being said, I imagine the FFXIV dev team would definitely want to include the male Viera and female Hrothgar somewhere further down the line. But I can also imagine they may need to adjust their workflow and optimize the system for making armor fit bodies more so that adding the two genders won't create too much of a bottleneck on time. I believe Yoshi-P has mentioned as much in an interview with MrHappy recently after the Tokyo fanfest.

I have faith Yoshi-P will manage to figure something out and gives us the missing genders. Heck, seeing how big the demand is I bet they're actually eager to figure out how to effectively do this without bottlenecking themselves in the future.

Edit: apparently I made it reach 264 pages, lol. xD

[Acesfool]

No it wasn't. Their plan was to introduce Hrothgars in general, but there was a big demand for Vieras since 2.0. But since they had resources and time only for one race, they were have to decide between female Viera and female Hrothgar, because they wanted to implement male Hrothgars no matter what.

LOL, that's pretty much what I said. The point being hrothgar were their first thought. So you're lucky to get viera at all, male or female.