Maybe it's cause I play a max slider Femroe but I actually DO pay attention to what other big people look like. Roebros are walking meat walls/ rectangles with arms that are too long and legs that are too short. Like soft gorilla-ish people. Not exactly the most appealing big race shape you can ask for.
Because of this it's easy for gear to not look great on them.
Hrothgar have inverted triangle shape going on. They have normalized human proportions so that they have more of the hero buff guy shape. Like Yoshi pointed out I do expect gear to look much better on them.
Also ... Roebros aren't that far behind Elezen males. Elezen male's tall skinny guy body shape was far more popular with the newest race to attempt that not only for the better quality but because it added something too (beastly Dragon parts). Stands to reason that a better looking big race would result in better numbers. Case in point, me. I'd never play a Roebro, I think that they're wide AF. I'm all about that Hrothgar though. My Femroe already looks like more of an action hero in the amazing Eureka tank set because femroe have normalized proportions.
Soooo you don't trust what SE said? KK, not sure what you want me to say. You wont believe anything that's not plucked from your bias.Second of all, maybe they didn't replace them (or at elast is what SE says), but they did show viera first, and for many ppl male viera were replaced by hrotgar.
Not to mention that while there was a demand for beast races, it was no where near as big as the demand for viera, with BOTH genders, and as you can tell by this thread ppl wanted an actual race that was more beast like, not 1 gender of a race that was more beastlike
Viera Males were shown as concept from back when Viera got beat out by the Scaley folk. That's a looong time ago and by the very nature of being concept art it was just ideas.
You also assume the people who wanted Viera (a race that's only ever been shown to be females in the games) cared about seeing males.
And lastly you seem to not be aware of how much Beastly race was asked for. I remember. I was firmly in the pro-Viera threads and we had constant fights with people coming in saying "Gah! Another human with animal ears?!? Why waste time on that? They should make a beast like race!". Many people made threads about it. Most of us used the excuse that SE would be too lay to do that. The want for it was on par with Viera from what i remember, most just thought it was a pipe dream.



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