Letter from the Producer LXII

[reivaxe]

Dav and busters? Do you live in Chicago too? And I always thoguht it was dav and busters... the more you learn....

I mean't Dave & Busters lol, and yeah, I'm from Chicago

Only problem with that is that before, we knew about Viera for quite a long time. We didn't know about Hrothgar. The expectation, then, was that there weren't going to be any beasts, and I'd say reasonably, people expected to be able to make a male Viera.

Now we're in a situation where people want male Viera, and on top of that, people want something they didn't know they wanted: female Hrothgar. So the amount of people left wanting is more than if they had just given us Viera.

There wasn't a "long time", it was a difference of 2 months. Before Hrothgar were revealed they were leaked, first by Blu Fever and then other leakers and finally by the French dub of the game in Feb. These are well known things among people who bother talking about this game online.

And no, just Viera would have let down all those people who wanted a beast race seeing as these are the final additions and they would be using said final addition to add "human, but with bunny ears!" which is far less creative and unique compared to the Scaley Peeps who ALSO got flack at first for being too human but are far more removed from human than Viera.

According to what I saw in support thread, most of active people there were okay with his "slim, handsome, elegant, more like Elezen with Miqo'te face" description ("more like Elezen" doesn't mean copy, I suppose he just wanted to give an idea. And since females seems to be mix of Hyur and Elezens, males could be similar to them). There were also people who wanted to see them shorter than females (which doesn't really mean that they have to look like children. Females are quite tall). And ofc there are people who wants to see another bulky race or wanted to see child model, but I doubt that they are even 1/3 of those who askes for males at all (can't say for sure, since I'm not telepath, and a lot of people don't write anything in threads or do not specify how they want to see them).

Thing is that the Male Viera thread is mostly spam posted on by a hand full of like <10 people, so if those <10 people are cool with an idea it's gonna look popular.

I've seen the drama from the faction fighting on the topic of "which head canon male Viera should get in" spread not just out of that thread but also outta this forum when people started making topics on reddit to gather recruits to bring back here and join the fight. Doesn't happen anymore because the people of reddit down vote the topic of male viera to the pits of hell ... cause the amount of people who want them isn't nearly as big as this forum would lead you to believe.

In truth there's never been a depiction of a Male Viera in a game so there's no centralized, agreed upon idea of what they would look like. So yeah, everyone who wants them can have their own idea they're fighting for and have no clue what the end result would be.