Gender locked race?

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Do I really think that FFXIV will have a gender design contest? No. Do I think they should? Yes. Because clearly they need some feedback and numbers and images are pretty easy to disseminate. However, I do, 100% think that they will release Hrothgals and Viera males. And from every interview that's already come out, it's very clear that resource management was the biggest issue here, along with trying to appease two groups. It's a classic case of wanting to eat their cake and have it too. And if they had double the resources to handle remodeling thousands of gear pieces, they very likely would have handed us two playable races in 5.0. Everything just snowballed into a messy, messy release.

People continue to think this is some kinda one shot and be done non-sense. Making a new race in THIS game requires not just the time, resources and man power to make them (Including going back and retro fitting every armor and emote and hair style released to work on them) but also supporting them moving forward. More body shapes for them means every thing that can be applied to a player's toon is now harder to make moving forward. There are currently 6 races (7 if you count Highlands as their own thing) and adding 2 more would increase the work load for ALL glam and emotes and jobs and so on by 1/3.

THAT'S why they say that this is it. According to them this is all they can handle and still give us content at the pace they have been. There is no "wellllll, just make Viera 5.0 and then do Hrothgar in 6.0!" cause there is no promise that they can make more than 1 new male and female model after 5.0.

Also the reason we're in this position is because the HROTHGAR are the ones that they planned to do. After the release of the Wolf Headed people and their concept art in 4.0 a beastly race option was highly demanded. I should know because many Viera fans like myself saw these fans and told them to STFU cause there's no way we're getting something like that from SE. But they did see the desire for them and they also knew people have been wanting Viera since before Draggos were revealed. Between the 2 ... Hrothgar are what the game needs. The devs wanted it, the fans wanted beastly race and it adds so much to the game. In Yoshi's own words "We thought: “Why add more handsome races… even if we do, the biggest difference will be the ears…” ". But people have been wanting them for over 4 years and they did the best they could to honor the most people they could. This path DOES make the most people happy well also adding something to the game.

There's no profit in adding a new race, it's purely to give us more ways to express ourselves.
I don't foresee them changing anything personally. The western English speakers have a loud minority on this forum but the other OFs don't care nearly as much and by large most people don't feel strongly about this.