You can't "lock" something that doesn't exist.

[Penthea]

Just because they haven't announced them yet doesn't mean they're 'locked', just not created yet. And the other races you stated aren't 'locked' either just because we don't get to play as them. You're really reaching for an argument on this.

If we can't play something that exists in the story, then we're locked out of it. Why is this simple concept difficult to understand?

[Alucard135]

If we can't play something that exists in the story, then we're locked out of it. Why is this simple concept difficult to understand?

So we're locked from Garleans, Ascians, Lupin, all beast tribes, and mobs from being playable.

[Penthea]

So we're locked from Garleans, Ascians, Lupin, all beast tribes, and mobs from being playable.

Yeap. We can't play them, they're locked.

I'd love to be able to play as a qiqirn. I think they're so cute.

[Alucard135]

Yeap. We can't play them, they're locked.

I'd love to be able to play as a qiqirn. I think they're so cute.

So that means the outrage for male Viera and all the labels thrown at the dev team was hypocritical, since we were locked from all these stuff and no one said anything (some of it had one gender too like Lupin, Ananta etc). Did people suddenly realize they were locked from stuff now? I didn't mention female Hrothgar, because if they said in the lore they don't exist, then by your logic we're not locked from them and should never ask for them in that case.