Quote Originally Posted by zeylos View Post
The point is, there is a huge amount of ppl who want male Viera. There is a huge amount of ppl who want female hrotgar, and we have literally no idea on what a majority is since this forums are about 3-5% of the playerbase. If no Viera was added, no one would be complaining about no male Viera, and if no hrotgar was added, no one would be complaining about no female hrotgar. Regardless of what they did, it was going to get some backlash, but what they did was the worst possible option in terms of backlash and press, considering if they stuck to wht they wanted to do and did only full hrotgar, there would have been drama for 1 month and done. There will be drama about gender lock until the end of the game
You're forgetting the other side of that equation:

If no Viera were added, you would have people complaining about no male Viera, you would have a rabid swarm of people complaining about no Viera at all.
Conversely, if no Hrothgar were added, you wouldn't have people complaining about no female Hrothgar, you would have the same rabid swarm of people complaining about "oh, another human with animal ears attached".

Face it, they took the path of least resistance that would satisfy the most amount of people they could. As a company, their bottom line is money, so you can be VERY sure that they did the proper research to find which would satisfy the most people.