Gender locked race?

[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.

[LaylaTsarra]

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.

Why would they release it in 5.5 even if they could. If they were to release any additional races I suspect they would to it as a carrot/incentive/selling point for their new 6.0 expansion. It makes no sense to me to release a new race at a time when subs are low and the current xpac winding down.

Female Viera and Male Hrothgar are a big selling point for this xpac and are a driving force is sales I'm sure.