Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
This worries me, I won't lie. Look at their reasoning for adding male Hroths - they wanted to diversify the races, right? But what did the females get? Tol waifus with bunny ears. Elezen + Bunny ears. That doesn't do much for diversity, now does it?

So, did they decide that giving female Viera was more important than the aesthetic diversity among the females? If so, why not give us bunny boys instead of male Hroths for the same reason, seeing how chances are that they'd be much more played than male Hroths going by existing numbers (specifically male Roes)? And if that's not it and they truly did think female Viera brought something new to the table... 1. why wouldn't bunny boys? 2. ....really? Really?!
They've explained this more than once.

We got viera because people have been asking for Viera since 2013 and as far as they can tell this is the last addition to the race line up. They make it clear that to some degree they felt they had to add them because of this.
HROTHGAR actually add something to the game much like scaly people did and request for a beastly race exploded this expansion. The devs have been wanting to add one for some time looking at past concept art.

As for stats female playing players favoring playing attractive or cute females is clear as day. Female elezen and fem reo are undervalued by a huge amount because they're not conventionally attractive. Male toons, however, are more evenly spread showing that their players are more open to unique appearances. Roebros are not far from elezen males and the better designed, uniquely beastly match for their body shape proved to be much more popular.

So yeah, if they're trying to make the most people AND the devs happy well also adding to the choices players have then beastly race plus viera is the best path.

And I know this is the Viera male thread but I find it funny that people seem to be so sure they'd be so popular compared to HROTHGAR when they would add nothing but a 3rd option for tall skinny handsome males but with none of the cool beastly looks and only different ears to the elezen.