Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
True.

Though this thread was mostly targeted at the people who were responding to the upset players with "OMG they're just being true to the lore bro!"

To which this is a tongue in cheek way of highlighting that XIV doesn't particularly care much about lore outside its actual story arcs.

If being fair, there's also the other side of things to consider too. Such as the fact that any other game that isn't FFXIV is inherently non-canon. Just like every other Final Fantasy game (Outside of sequels such as X-2 and XIII-2 and spin offs like Dirge of Cerberus) is in a completely different universe to one another.

So, even if in Tactics/XII they had a specific lore... It doesn't automatically apply to XIV (Or any other Final Fantasy game).

Just like how in every other Final Fantasy game, Stone, Water and Aero are all Black Magic. In XIV they're considered White Magic.
I thought it was targeted at the developers as (yet another) complaint over them citing lore as to why male Viera weren't introduced; "lore" was, until we got clarification, what most people were going with or perhaps what the developers themselves cited.

... and while XIV doesn't have to follow the established lore of other settings / titles, the race was imported as a carbon copy of their previous incarnation in XII. I was hopeful they'd introduce the male Viera despite that (if only to avoid this nonsense), but considering that I wasn't terribly surprised they went in the direction they did. Perhaps the reason most people were going with "lore" was precisely because the Viera are identical to their XII incarnations? Food for thought.