Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Allegor]

This kinda makes me wonder how's it going in the parallel universe where Hrothgar are the male Viera, just to see if the impact is as big as having no male at all (for now).
I mean, if we're being honest, if they did that they would've given us both the fanservicy bunny warriors and a beastly race all at once and be done with it, even if they fell for that trope of old of males being any kind of monster but females have to be sexy not-humans.

Not saying they should've done that, just expressing my curiosity of how it could've been

[zeylos]

This kinda makes me wonder how's it going in the parallel universe where Hrothgar are the male Viera, just to see if the impact is as big as having no male at all (for now).
I mean, if we're being honest, if they did that they would've given us both the fanservicy bunny warriors and a beastly race all at once and be done with it, even if they fell for that trope of old of making males monsters but females have to be sexy not-humans.

Not saying they should've done that, just expressing my curiosity of how it could've been

I think it would have been a bigger backlash, but idk. I personally would be even more dissapointed, since now we at elast know that male viera will be at least somewhat elegant and handsome, not feral and rugged, which is what I wanted the viera race for

[WhiteArchmage]

This kinda makes me wonder how's it going in the parallel universe where Hrothgar are the male Viera, just to see if the impact is as big as having no male at all (for now).
I mean, if we're being honest, if they did that they would've given us both the fanservicy bunny warriors and a beastly race all at once and be done with it, even if they fell for that trope of old of males being any kind of monster but females have to be sexy not-humans.

Not saying they should've done that, just expressing my curiosity of how it could've been

I think it would be a smaller backlash: mostly some huffing and eye rolling, some users tagging Matsuno on Twitter asking if that was his view on m Viera, Matsuno would probably said some non-commital "It's the XIV team's vision of them." I would have grumbled, because that trope drives me up the wall but there likely wouldn't have been as much complaining as there was. It would, however, have definitely closed the door on a female bestial race, given that there would be no excuse to release the counterparts later (and yes, this means I AM admitting Hroth bring more to the game than Viera, being more different to the other races).

Also, god damn, we must be in the wrong timeline since I'm agreeing with reivaxe now: the body and gear modelling WILL take a long time, even if the assets are "recycled". Even if there are bases they can use (say, female Ronso from the X/X-2 remasters, and modify elezen bodies), it WILL take a long time, because that's how model development works, and that's not even getting INTO gear resizing and testing. I want to play a male Viera and have a female Hrothgar alt, so I do not want them rushed, I want them to make a good product.