Realistic Poll About Male Viera and Female Hrothgar

[Laphael]

This poll is not realistic because as usual it ignores the resource restrictions the devs had. They had time for 2 models, not 4 models like options A and B assume.

A realistic poll would be asking people which race shouldn't have been developed at all in order to give the fans of one race both gender options and the fans of the other race no options. Either we were going to get (1) Viera, (2) Hrothgar or (3) One gender of both. There was never a possibility to have it all.

(4) None at all and put ressources somewhere else.
That would need to be an option too.

In this poll i would go with option (3), even if i don´t care for races too much.

[LalaRu]

E) I don't care.
It is as a C) but with different reason. Then, being male Viera extremely rare to see, have no sense unlocked it as playable and see them everywhere. I'd better see one npc somewhere in a cutscene or two.
Hrothgar, I'm not into that race so will not care much both genders.

[Sclair0]

E) I don't care.
It is as a C) Then, being male Viera extremely rare to see, have no sense unlocked it as playable and see them everywhere. I'd better see one npc somewhere in a cutscene or two.
Hrothgar, I'm not into that race so will not care much both genders.

I dunno about "no sense"... We have non-padjal white mages everywhere, Red Mages everywhere, summoners everywhere, scholars everywhere, warriors everywhere, dark knights everwhere, Au Ra off the step, Male Miqote in huge numbers, fem-highlanders outside ala mhigo... All these things are or were established as exceedingly rare at one time or another.

[Acesfool]

Yes, it's here, it's pretty complete with a lot of options to gauge a general sentiment.

That poll is public so people who don't play can fill it out. And the majority of questions seem tilted toward getting pro male Viera and female Hrothgar results. Someone who doesn't even play sees a poll that has "gender locking" mentioned over and over again, they're going to think that sounds bad, of course I'm against it.

[spf1200]

B.

They could do so much for male Viera (like reversing the sexual dimorphism and making the males smaller and frailer than the females) and there's so few Buff Females in fantasy races that I feel like female Hrothgar could really appeal to a lot of players.

Why would they send small frail men into the jungle alone to protect it? That doesn't make sense.

As for the OP my answer is D. I understand people really wanted them but I like that they are respecting the lore and would really prefer that they not take anymore resources make the other halves especially since they couldn't get helmets to work right with them.

[SannaR]

B: In that I hope my negative feelin about this is wrong and the other halves become play-able in 6.0

[Kaizencorr]

C and D

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[Gemina]

E. Would rather see resources spent frying bigger fish.

I don't oppose male Viera or female Rothgar. In fact, I would love to see how they are designed for FFXIV. Especially the latter. But until I see things like how are they going to address the issues we have with some of our jobs, BLU, content/encounters design, getting headgear on the new races, QoL adjustments and so forth; I don't want to see either of them.

[DamianFatale]

B.

They could do so much for male Viera (like reversing the sexual dimorphism and making the males smaller and frailer than the females) and there's so few Buff Females in fantasy races that I feel like female Hrothgar could really appeal to a lot of players.

No. Make Viera the same.

[Zohar_Lahar]

No. Make Viera the same.

Making the male Viera shorter and more youthful compliments Au Ra dimorphism, fitting since they come from Othard.

Besides, we have Elezen, Mi'qote, and Lalafell "the same" in terms of dimorphism.