Quote Originally Posted by Guesswhat View Post
Well, there is a difference between creating only 1 gender in a 2 gender race (gender lock due to limitation, etc) and creating a 1 gender race, in lore. To say that no one likes the latter or don't care is demonstrably false. It's rather arrogant to simply assert that it's not interesting. In the case of FF14 the reason for gender locking (there are 2 genders in lore I guess, haven't checked) is due to limitation; that seems correct. Do we know anything about the lore? Perhaps SE will work the lore around the limitations to make it sound smart. You know, kinda like in FF11.

Lol, imagine if they make the lore like "..there are only female Viera", but then, after a while, cater to the backlash from the community. SE then have to make up some b******t lore why male Viera now exists. No, if the gender lock is in place even SE isn't dumb enough to not make room, in lore, for the other gender to exist ("male Viera have hiden underground for a 1000 years" or something lol). This is one of the reasons, I think, why the lore in mainstream MMOs like FF14 is so vague and all over the place. They need room in case of X because Y people could be unhappy, and we still need them to be happy, so we do Z because we need X now, in order for Y to be happy while still keeping the W people happy too.

Yeah, at least for lore reasons I honestly don't care what SE do. I'm guessing they will eventually make these races 2 genders if the backlash is hard enough. So to anyone who really don't like this decision, it's just to keep up the posts and threads.
The lore states that: Hrotgar is a matriarchal society on where everyone lives to catter to the needs of their queen (20% of hrotgar are female) which basically means that if they HAD to genderlock hrotgar it would makem uch more sense for them to be female only, considering a woman on their society can demand that all men start wearing the housemaid apron and never leave their houses, and all men in their society would most likely do so, with the other clan being the hrotgar who no longer serve the queen, but women still exist. As for viera, in FFTA viera is nothing more than a dream race and male viera don't exist (in fact, I believe EVERY single race was genderlocked there, even humans). In FFXII, which is where the lore of the Viera should be taken from, the onyl reason why we don't see male viera is that they live spearately from the females, and they were planned for the second part of the game I believe, but Matsuno left before their implementation. In FFXIV's lore, male viera are protectors of the forest, and cosnidering the reason why female viera left the wood, It would make more sense for the viera to be male onyl lore wise, due to the fact that the males are the ones who live closer to other societies.