Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Selova]

Given their track record with addressing issues preventing much-requested features from happening, I'm having a hard time taking this as anything but an attempt to avoid actually giving a hard 'never' despite that being what they mean. My sub runs out in two days, and I'm really not sure what to do now; up until this I was pretty sure I was going to renew anyway, but I feel like Yoshida just killed my last shred of excitement for the expansion...

Let's be honest here. Were you honestly that excited for a entire expansion if the fact that a cosmetic aspect of a new race was going to make or break a the new expansion for you? Seems kind of odd to base your enjoyment of a entire game over a cosmetic feature that was never confirmed to begin with.

[Lukha]

Let's be honest here. Were you honestly that excited for a entire expansion if the fact that a cosmetic aspect of a new race was going to make or break a the new expansion for you? Seems kind of odd to base your enjoyment of a entire game over a cosmetic feature that was never confirmed to begin with.

I mean, this is the game where we only half-jokingly claim that 'glamour is the true endgame'. Literally every reward for clearing content in the game is either a cosmetic item or currency to buy a cosmetic item; how is it hard to wrap your mind around someone being upset over something cosmetic?

And it's not even the fact of the matter, so much as the blatant disrespect for the interests of a good chunk of the community that this decision implies. I think most of us would have been okay with getting male and female Viera, or male and female Hrothgar, even if it wasn't the race we personally desired for ourselves. However, there has been a large and outspoken push against genderlocking in this game, which SE cannot claim not to be aware of, as they have responded to it in the past and even made changes to the game because of it. For them to blithely go ahead and genderlock entire races and then pretend they're surprised when people are unhappy about it is dishonest and insulting, and the way they spaced out their announcements was clearly intended to mislead people just long enough so that they would no longer be able to cancel their preorders.

It's easy to say 'how can this one little thing bother you so much' if you're happy or indifferent to the result, and have been happy or indifferent to SE's decisions regarding glamour in the past, but for those of us who have been wrestling with these issues for years at this point, this is a pretty hard slap in the face when we thought we'd finally gotten through to them.

[Selova]

snip.

No one said that you couldn't be upset about their decision regarding the races nor is it hard to understand why you would be upset. I just personally view it as odd that you would forgo a entire expansion just because they didn't add a particular gender for a new race. I also think it's a bit ridiculous to claim that they somehow disrespected or slighted you because of their decision.

They have already explained several times over for their design decision behind the new races, they wanted to give people the long awaited Viera race and a more beast-like race that people have been asking for since the games inception. They didn't have the time or resources to get both genders for both races out in time for the expansion, so they decided to put out one gender for both races. They also never said that they aren't ever going to give viera and hrothgar their male and female counterparts respectively and I have a hard time believing that they won't.

I think people are too focused on it being a gender locked issue when it's not. It was a time constraint and resource issue. I have no doubt in my mind that if SE had the time and resources to get both genders out for both the races before the expansion launches that they would have done so, If they didn't they would have put in a more concrete statement that they aren't adding the other genders. Just like with the issue with Miqote, I'm sure that we will get male viera and female hrothgar, It's just a matter of time.