Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Senn]

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When you say allied races, do you mean the beast tribe races like vanu, vath, amalj'aa, and etc...? If so, I don't think that's likely.

[Halivel]

When you say allied races, do you mean the beast tribe races like vanu, vath, amalj'aa, and etc...? If so, I don't think that's likely.

They probably mean adgjustments like fat Miqo'te, because team is awared that after ShB trailer people asked about possibility to play as fat characters in the future.

[Senn]

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Oh.
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[Lauront]

I believe in past interviews they mentioned wanting to someday expand the number of clans for the existing playable races.

With that said, it could go either way. I don't think they're completely against the idea of adding new options if resources/funding allows. Equally, though, it's probably just a case of future proofing rather than anything concrete.

Yup - it’d be great news if they found a cost efficient way to deal with the models, since it also means the high res asset texture conversion is that much more feasible, but this is extremely limited information that can be taken as future proofing and not necessarily much more than that. They had specifically called out body types like the chunkier miqo’te as being very challenging to implement during JP fanfest, so I’m doubtful that this has much to do with that... unless they’re keeping their cards close to their chest.

[Yana-Chan]

Yup - it’d be great news if they found a cost efficient way to deal with the models, since it also means the high res asset texture conversion is that much more feasible, but this is extremely limited information that can be taken as future proofing and not necessarily much more than that. They had specifically called out body types like the chunkier miqo’te as being very challenging to implement during JP fanfest, so I’m doubtful that this has much to do with that... unless they’re keeping their cards close to their chest.

If you go watch missteqs video with her interviewing yoshi p she asks if we would ever get anymore customizing involving the races and he said that if it affected the head shape or the body in anyway it would be difficult because they would have to re adjust every single outfit and he said it would just be easier to create a new race instead of doing that.

[zeylos]

Yoshida's one sneaky guy, I know how he is. I'm going to predict right here and right now that we'll have male Viera by this time next year. I don't think it's something they want to show off for 6.0. The Viera/Hrothgar race are features of Shadowbringers, it feels kinda redundant/weird to re-announce the race again in 6.0. They'll most likely just hire a handful of highly skilled 3D artists, maybe from other Japanese companies like Nintendo, Capcom, or even Namco to work on the missing genders.

Notice how he says what's holding them back is finding a solution and not really "we need more time to remodel the gear on male VIera/female Hrothgar." A solution sounds more like needing the green-light from the shareholders to approve hiring contractors for this 1 year (or 2 year project). If let's say 3 or 4 3D artists spend that whole year remodeling gear to the specifications of the 2 missing genders that could easily be done in 1 year. The reason it took them 2 years with female Viera/male Hrothgar is because their Full time 3D artists had to work on everything from new npc gear, current expansion gear, and future expansion gear.

But see where I'm going here, if a contractor's full time job is just remodling gear for 1 year...that's very doable. It's the perfect solution because it doesn't take away from the game's resources, it also allows them to release the 2 new races within Shadowbringer's lifetime, giving the game a shot in the arm at the 1 year mark which is usually when sub numbers go down. We're all grown ups here, we know this is just theory and guesses but the possibility is there if you followed through the reading. In my eyes I see 6.0 being free to work on its own, that's just how I see it. Yoshida could've easily just said "we'd need more time to bring the missing genders if they were to be added." But instead of that he said "we need to find a solution." A solution just implies something deeper and more immediate, to me anyways.

Any thoughts/ideas on what the solution is would be welcomed.

I though something similar. I think that Yoshida is a very smart and, like you said, sneaky guy, and I feel like this is a marketing trick to skyrocket male viera and female hrotgar fantasia sells. I think they either have the models, are close to finishing them, or at elast have quite a decent amount of them done, and they simply saved them so they could create a demand for this 2 models, meaning that they'd get a boost in sales

[zeylos]

When you say allied races, do you mean the beast tribe races like vanu, vath, amalj'aa, and etc...? If so, I don't think that's likely.

No, I meant things like void elves, maybe elezen with decent proportions, strong au ra women and femenine au ra men, fatqote, ronso, thinner roegadyn, supermodel humans, feol and dwarves come to mind

[zeylos]

SE, If u were going to implemetn new races alognside with missing genders, I'd personalyl like:

1-Bangaa


2-Burmecian


3-Ivalician Moogles

[Driavna]

Can you please edit instead of double or even triple post?

[zeylos]

Can you please edit instead of double or even triple post?

Sigh

Seriously, why would it hurt you if I quadruple or 100eth posted?