Would you rather have had Male Viera or Hrothgar?

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Count me down as someone who thinks they should've implemented both male and female hrothgar rather than viera, even though viera is my preferred aesthetic and I'll likely never switch to a hrothgar even on an alt. The hrothgar bring a completely new aesthetic to the table - but the way they've done it, you can only go beastly if you want to play a dude.

I'm hoping part of the reason for the decision was because introducing one full race would've meant closing the door on the other, and this way they get both of them in the game and leave a foothold for adding the other genders if time/resources/finances allow - whereas if they'd chosen just one it might've been next to impossible to get the other later.

Pretty positive this is the exact reason why they did it this way. Yoshi-P sounded like he really wanted to add both races with both genders, but is extremely wary/worried about doing so due to the reasons he stated in that letter - all very valid reasons. Hopefully the next two years or so will give him the resources and make him more confident, but at the end of the day I do fully accept the reasoning behind it all.

That said, would love to see female Hrothgar. I'll be switching to Viera for now, but if female Hrothgar do come, I'll happily fantasia right on over.

Also it's quite interesting how the two switch first place all the time. To me this seems like both are more or less equally wanted, although more players might say male viera because they feel bitter of the genderlocks

I'm kinda sick of hearing this "competition" going on (not targeted toward you). Fact is - if Male Viera do come, then you best believe Female Hrothgar will too and vice versa. They aren't going to randomly go on the NA forums, look at a poll and say "Oh, a very small portion of the NA population has voted in favor of THIS race. Well then guess we'll just do that one!"