Gender locked race?

[Angelov-Mercy]

I feel like people are blowing this out of wack. I just dont or never expected Male veria to be any different than what we already have. We were never getting those kid like males for males. Of we ever got them they were gonna be the standard like all the other males. Cause that's what they did for females.

It concerned me, and the reason I spoke up before was I don't wish the company or the devs to get into trouble over the tactics "SJW" as someone put it, use to undermine those not on board the movements they wish to impose....and they have a growing number everyday, some more intense then others. But I've also seen the reverse of this too, another game I once played began to ban players who openly spoke against certain aspects of the game they wished to enforce, of this same issue might I add. So it is unsettling when I see it spring up in places I was starting to feel comfortable. The fan art was good work, but people should calm themselves down and not get so excited that there isn't enough masculine females or feminine males, the game already provides this. I've already seen this in game, some for humor others for their own reasons. Put in a request like the rest of us when you would like to see something added and then be patient. I asked for a few things too, but I'm not going to hammer them with endless shame and blame, for not having it right when I ask. If they feel like adding in my ideas, "yay!" If not, the game is still really fun, and it's not the end of the world. lol

[RikkCavalier]

♪All we have to do now, is take these lies and make them true somehow. All we have to see, is that I don't belong to you and you don't belong to me. FREEDOM! (to choose) I wont let you down. FREEDOM! (to choose genders) I will not give you up! FREEDOM! ♪ /Day 13

[AcornFox]

Let players have the freedom to choose genders please! Thank you! /day 12

Wow :O this is fantastic.

[Zerophiliac]

Let players have the freedom to choose genders please! Thank you! /day 12

You did this? I'd love to see this as the male viera, really well done.

[zeylos]

@princelyclad

[RikkCavalier]

You did this? I'd love to see this as the male viera, really well done.

I did not. Credit goes to Highberry! I do not own any drawing or concept I post. :-) But it is very very well done. It almost looks like a SE design.

[RikkCavalier]

@princelyclad

↑ I really like this! Continued support for male and female genders for both new races please!

[zeylos]

I think we might see male viera and female hrotgar much sooner than expected, considering that ffxiv team can now use this to tell SE that they need help and if they help them they can earn so much money. That being said, if they actually wanted, SE could give us 2 full races at launch, although I don't really think it's gonna happen, my bet is that maybe they remove 1 genderlock at a time, 1 at 5.1, then another one at 5.1.5 or 5.2

[Halivel]

I think we might see male viera and female hrotgar much sooner than expected, considering that ffxiv team can now use this to tell SE that they need help and if they help them they can earn so much money. That being said, if they actually wanted, SE could give us 2 full races at launch, although I don't really think it's gonna happen, my bet is that maybe they remove 1 genderlock at a time, 1 at 5.1, then another one at 5.1.5 or 5.2

Too optimistic. ツ Just to be fair, Yoshida'a department opened recruiting at 1st April, but:
- His team works not only on FFXIV and according to recruit description, they plan to work on some big project;
- They started to work on new races 3 months after 4.0 release so it took almost full 2 years with other work. 5.1 or 5.2 is just physically impossimble. 5.5 is earliest option at this point and still - I will not wait it earlier than 6.0-6.x;
- Team most likely will have a vacation after 5.0 release. Maybe just short one, but welp, they need it.

[Nestama]

I think we might see male viera and female hrotgar much sooner than expected, considering that ffxiv team can now use this to tell SE that they need help and if they help them they can earn so much money. That being said, if they actually wanted, SE could give us 2 full races at launch, although I don't really think it's gonna happen, my bet is that maybe they remove 1 genderlock at a time, 1 at 5.1, then another one at 5.1.5 or 5.2

That's very unrealistic expectations. If they were to release the other genders to the races during a patch, 5.5 would be the earliest to expect them. 6.0 would be the more realistic and, in my opinion, best time to release them. I would not be happy if adding the opposite genders during a patch means something else has to be sacrificed.

Right now they're likely working on finalising everything in the expansion, making sure everything works and such. After that releases, they'll likely go on vacation before getting to work on 5.1, which is likely when they'll start working on the female Hrothgar and male Viera.