Alright, I’ve been monitoring this thread and a few others for a few days now and figured I would finally make an account here to just say a few things. I know I am going to have someone get upset or claim I am a troll, but I’m neither trying to upset you or be trollish.

That said I’ve been playing FFXIV since launch and played FFXI for almost as long as I have played FFXIV. During launch of XIV, I was excited to jump right in after wondering around in XI… but quickly discovered no male Miqo'te. I honestly don’t remember people complaining as hard as people over no male Viera, but people seem to think that was the case. I was happy that once the game became a world reborn that we got male Miqo'te, but yet again, I don’t remember any sort of “Promise” to never have gender locked races.

I get you guys really want it, but there are some hard facts that I honestly don’t think you will get it. The main one being is that there isn’t a male Mithra in FFXI. I do remember quite a few forum posts and letter to the devs and petitions to add Mithra and guess what, they still don’t have them till this day. The sad part is, is that I remember there being a male Mithra NPC in the game. Other facts are, while yes, SE can change lore for an ongoing MMO, I seriously doubt the same can be said about races from a completely different Final Fantasy that is being added to the game. I feel like I can say that they are working with the director from FFXII to even add Viera in the first place, maybe he’s also the reason why we don’t have male Viera in XIV. At best, I could see maybe female Harthgar, because I believe this race is made in XIV (I could be wrong) but then people would complain again on no Viera.

Another big sign that I doubt this will happen is that so many of you have so many different varieties of how you want to see Viera that even if they did add them, SOMEONE would be pissed and want it remade. Why would SE willingly stand on that land mine? I’ve seen things from short lala sized to tall elezen. What if they were just Hyur sized but had Highlander style bodies? Or maybe even Fem Roegadyn style bodies? They wouldn’t be able to please everyone, and it would just equal yet another maybe even larger backlash.

Feel free to pick at anything I have said, again, I am not trying to troll, just looking at things from different angles.