Quote Originally Posted by kingskye View Post
i honestly believe that he wasnt allowed to create bunny boys, the op kept repeating "this isnt matsuno's game wah wah" but viera and anything with ivalice is his and he has full authority of his ips
Though, people contacted Matsuno and he confirmed that he had no part in this decision.

Quote Originally Posted by kingskye View Post
instead people are trying to fit their narrative by saying se promised no generlocking and if they did research....a 2013 article was mentioning female viera with a soon to be announced male counterpart....you had almost 10 years to whine about genderlocking...10 bloody years...the people who are mad just b/c of that article are just bloody crying for no reason and its a shame
Actually, when they released male Miqo'te and female Roe they did mention they wouldn't do genderlocking again.

Also, that one specific mention in 2013 was discussing creating Viera and then opting for a male counterpart instead of male Viera...

Then what we got was their decision to make Hrothgar and then decide to nix female Hrothgar to add in female Viera instead...

Like, they were going to just add Hrothger male and female. Then, due to wanting to target 2 different audiences simultaneously (That's their confirmed reasoning) they decided to try and split the difference and add in a new "Beastly" race (Hrothgar) with one gender and female Viera as both had been requested a lot, and due to one gender of each race it would take about the same amount of resources to develop as one full race.


Personally, I don't much care about Viera/Hrothgar since I'm always going to stick to being Miqo'te and unless we get more retainers for free I won't be creating any more of them. However, I do kind of wish that they had doubled down on making one full race with both genders now and saved the other race to add later with both genders (Such as with 6.0 release). That way they not only avoid tantrums like happened here with genderlocking, but also extend the hype train across 2 expansions where they get to show off their brand new race.