Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

What is really wrong with the artwork? The faces may look a bit strange (but Viera are no humans either) but otherwise the body itself is just that of a slim person with maybe the neck being a bit off but as Senn pointed out, these are sketches. Nothing else on that artwork is bad and we have simply no clue on what the demand would be. (And I am not sure how you see Lalas being something that Senn wants when he has pointed out Omega M countless of times which is the body type of that Viera artwork with a correct neck)

In the end the most played male characters are the kittens and the hyurs, so I kinda doubt that there would not be a demand in that part for male Viera.

Roes themselves are the second least played male characters, only the male Au Ra are worse. Yet those that like bulky men are going to get Hrothgar on top of that, so I doubt that the last male would be another one of those. I also doubt that they would be smaller than female Au Ra. Everything else is imo still open, so I dont think we should say that there is not much appetite for such a male Viera when its mostly about Omega type body which would fit quite nicely in the game and would make them quite similiar to the female Viera. And seeing how most people are playing the more slender or normal built men but at the same time those dont have well proportioned tall men, I feel that this is exactly the place where male Vieras would fit.

Edit: Seemingly Roe do land behind Au Ra if you only look at the active players so its even worse for them.

Yeah, the problem with this sort of analysis is it assumes the build is the issue. Whilst it probably a decisive factor at extremes like Lalafell or Roegadyn, you have Elezen - a slimmer race - played at a lower rate than Au Ra, who in turn are just over double the amount of Roegadyn men and nearly at double the figures of Elezen. Stiffness and lack of fluidity, plus bizarre proportions, can all play a role. In the case of Au Ra men, a lot of people take issue with the clipping. Next to no one is asking for mViera to look like Roegadyn males, anyway. They're in an entirely different category. However, a race with the fluidity of Miqo'te animations and a similar build to either Elezen or Au Ra is likely to do pretty well.

Just genuinely curious. If Yoshida/GMs tells you soon that VieraMale and Hrothgar Females will be added with 6.0 Expansion. Will you be accepting about that and let the thread die, or will you keep going on about this issue?
As I myself have come to accept they probably will add them in the next expansion personally as the Devs clearly has shown that they know you all want these race/genders. It just sounds like you do not, and are like myself when I was a kid and kept begging my parents for X or Y until they caved and gave in.

This is just how I personally view you guys who think making demands are like. Kids, impatient, entitled, demanding, self centered etc.
I want you all to get the stuff you guys want dont get me wrong. I just have different ways of looking on things and accept what I have/get.

I myself have quite a list of changes and additions I would love to see ingame, but I also know there is a thing called time and how much someone can actually do within that timespace. Not many MMOs comes out with several races and classes pr expansions. Usually it is 1 new race, or 1 new class.

I plan to reduce my posting on the issue if/when they give such confirmation, plus an idea of what they have in mind for them. I don't consider this to be an issue of entitlement, impatience etc. It's simply a question of whether the game will continue to be value for money for some people if they don't add them. As I've said before, it's unlikely to make me unsub (no planned graphics updates/char customisation enhancement though by 6.0 could swing it for me), but I can see why some people would regard it as an issue.