Would you rather have had Male Viera or Hrothgar?

[grinkdaboy]

bonus round if you voted Hrothgar

https://www.strawpoll.me/17999799

[Bahati]

I'd would have preferred male viera. Hrothgar look like roe with animal heads and I wouldn't play a roe with a humanoid head.

I would say I would prefer female Hrothgar as well but that's me assuming they would have "Mithra" face and not an actual beast head as all MMOs tend to soften the beastial aspect of female counterparts (for better or for worse).

[Skivvy]

I'd would have preferred male viera. Hrothgar look like roe with animal heads and I wouldn't play a roe with a humanoid head.

I would say I would prefer female Hrothgar as well but that's me assuming they would have "Mithra" face and not an actual beast head as all MMOs tend to soften the beastial aspect of female counterparts (for better or for worse).

While they may soften the female Hrothgar a bit, I really hope they don't just put a humanoid face on it In my opinion, GW2 did a nice job with their Charr - both male and female. The females are a bit slimmer in the body, and their facial features can be a bit more delicate (at least on the one face I can visualize in my head ATM), but they stick to looking like proper Charr.

No offense to the Au Ra (I enjoy fantasiaing over to them quite often ), but I'd really like to never again see the extreme sexual dimorphism that we see with the Au Ra. If they're going to give us beastly men, give us the beastly females also.

That's just my take on it :X

[zeylos]

While i'm highly sympathetic to those who wanted male viera, I do think the inclusion of a more 'beasty' type of race was needed for a large slice of players also. Its a very fine line, but I think overall SE made the right decision. It will be easier to (hopefully) flesh out male viera and female Hrothgar as add-ins than it would be to try to add-in a whole new race from scratch later, so I think this route offers the best promise overall.

Just my thoughts.

I think that it is most likely going to allow SE to add 2 full races ( hopefully ) through the span of maybe 2 expansions (5.0 and 6.0) or maybe, if we are reeeeeeally lucky (very unlikely) we could perhaps see the other genders at 5.3-5.5. I just hope it dosen't take them till like 7.0 like some ppl are saying it would (it might happen, in fact, we maybe dont ever get them, but one can hope)

[Kalise]

I think this is a loaded question.

Personally, I would have preferred one FULL race. Be it Hrothgar or Viera. Both genders.

With, if necessary, another FULL race being released later to please the crowd that lost out on their preference.

Essentially, given that their immediate choice was Hrothgar and was later altered to implement female Viera instead of female Hrothgar... I'd have preferred not getting Viera and just getting Hrothgar.

Then, for 6.0, if Viera fans were still pestering for them... Add them then or something.

It'd take more work, because it's guaranteeing 2 Races rather than now where it's just 1 race (Worth of work) with a "Tentative" for the second race (Worth of work) to be included at a later date.

If I were to be asked which one I'd have preferred, ignoring the fact that Hrothgar were planned first...

I'd have chosen Hrothgar. Simply because they seem to be adding more to the game.

Unlike Viera, the Hrothgar aren't copy/pastes of a pre-existing design for pure Fan Service. Yes, they have some fan service in the form of the Ronso-esk design capabilities, but outside of that they're fairly unique to XIV. Also, the Hrothgar add in a race that isn't just more waifu's. While I enjoy waifu's as much as anyone, it's nice to see more character designs than that - Especially from NPC's.

[grinkdaboy]

that's the way SE presented it. "we could either have a complete hrothgar race or a complete viera race or we could have female viera and male hrothgar"

[reivaxe]

that's the way SE presented it. "we could either have a complete hrothgar race or a complete viera race or we could have female viera and male hrothgar"

People really don't get this. The reason they're doing this, the reason we're getting this, is because they don't see themselves being able to do another race.

So either you get Viera and add next to nothing to the line up forever other than maybe making a popular tall female for once or you get Hrothgar, who actually greatly add to the line up but would leave Viera fans over looked forever.

So no, there's no option to "release 1 full race and wait for the other race in 6.0".

[Senn]

I prefer male viera over hrothgar.
However, I understand adding female viera and male hrothgar was the best choice as it made those who wanted viera and those who wanted a beast-like race happy.
I would like male viera and female hrothgar to be added some day.

[Fresky]

I would prefer to have playable Moogle and Namazu. can make both male/female of those with no effort too.

[Tanama]

If you want the missing sexes for 6.0 or 7.0 you have to hope the development team finds a way to auto retrofit gear for the new body types with the help of AI or some other form that makes it a lot easier for them because under their current systems, it is a huge workload for them.