Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[zeylos]

I think they will look like actual rabbits, more than the females. maybe even buck teeth.

:/
maybe the males will be rabbits with human ears

[Halivel]

Miqo'te males fill a completely different niche than hrothgar males. I don't think it (for the most part) is for the people who want to play a beast race.

You are correct in this statement, but until 3.0 it was the only option people had if they wanted to play male and beast looking character. In 3.0 we also got Auri, which is more near to Hroths in terms of looking fierce, but still is very different niche, because they are more like... models, maybe? Anyway, until now, if somebody wanted to play really beast looking race, they had two partly suitable options, and if they wanted to play feline one - they had only Miqo'te.

[Nestama]

You are correct in this statement, but until 3.0 it was the only option people had if they wanted to play male and beast looking character. In 3.0 we also got Auri, which is more near to Hroths in terms of looking fierce, but still is very different niche, because they are more like... models, maybe? Anyway, until now, if somebody wanted to play really beast looking race, they had two partly suitable options, and if they wanted to play feline one - they had only Miqo'te.

Eeeeh, debatable. Roegadyn are also kinda beastly. More so than Miqo'te imo, even though they lack the animal ears and tail (being based off of the Galka helps them out a bit, too. Galka were pretty much a beast race in FFXI, more so than Mithra).
Roegadyn are also (again, imo) the only race that really look good in glamours involving the Vanu Vanu set (plus Aymeric body) and maybe even the Behemoth helmet.

[Allegor]

when I created my char I legit thought the black marking in Hellsguards was part of their nose, which - to me - made them seem more feline....then I upgraded my computer and well....I still like to pretend it is. The long lost Buffqo'te tribe lol

[reivaxe]

Miqo'te males fill a completely different niche than hrothgar males. I don't think it (for the most part) is for the people who want to play a beast race.

Well yeah, they fill a completely different niche. I'm just reporting what I've seen and making sense of it. When you don't have the options you want you settle for the next best or what looks best to you. Cats and K9 furries are the most common that I've seen and if the closest the game gives you to an anthro cat is a ... human with Cat Ears then it makes sense to go for it if you like anthro cats. So when I saw a ton of cat bois loving the chance to convert into proper Cat Men it checks out on the logical meter why they settled for what they got now.

I really don't presume to know why "everyone" plays what they play.
When your options are as limited as they are now you can't really say one way or another why everyone plays what they play. Like me ... as of right now I play Femroe. Got here because I'm a black man who can't make a character that looks like me. When I can I do but that's mostly just Western games that give you that freedom to have black features and such. As someone who plays a lot of eastern games it's annoying but expected. And if I can't play a dude that looks like me I just default to female. Started as a Cat Girl, converted to Femroe cause they look cooler (IMO the only female's that look cool ... not cute or pretty but straight up COOL are Femroe and Highlander. Mostly in their animations and how gear fits them. Was a toss up but again, not being able to make a black human that looks right made me go for the non-human looking Femroe). Was one of the people pissed Scale Girls weren't tall and cool like the guys cause the dudes came out pretty good but too edgy anime teen for me.

Now I'm going ALL IN on Hrothgar. Changed my name and said GG to all my Female Mog Glam. Not cause I'm a furry, I like anthros but I don't even play beast races when I can. In GW2 I never even got around to making a Charr alt. Not cause I like "big men", I have never had a desire to play meat wall Roebro and if anything I like tall women. Nope, it's cause they look bad ass af. When they were first revealed I didn't think anything of it cause I got what I wanted months before (Black coded tall bunny women) but the more I saw the clearer it was. Completely different shape to Roebros, they have the classic and appealing heroic inverted triangle shape which tells me gear is gonna look gooood on them. Animations are impressive and expressive as hell. Faces are creative AF, voices seem super well done so far and I see them as having some of the most freedom to look unique from a Design PoV.

Why am I pointing all this out? Because in a world where these new races never came out, where Femroe and Thighlanders weren't put in the game ... a world where the only female options where Potato/ Elezen/ Mid/ Cat girl I'd simply be 1 in a sea of cat girls (As they are the most interesting option in that list) and you'd never know that I just settled for what was most interesting from that list.

So yeah, I don't really second guess these things. If I see a cat boi excited about converting to Hrothgar he prob settled and now has an option he's been desiring.

[Gwenorai]

So, I've been playing FF12 again and I realised that we actually missed a specific body type that is very much bang on from what Matsuno wanted. Even more so this body type is given to a character that was supposed to be the main character of FF12 but was then made a sub-protag in favour of Vaan. Matsuno was forced to make Vaan the main character due to the marketing team, it was originally this guy who was going to be the poster child.

Guys, I'm talking about Basch fon Rosenburg, He has zero body fat due to how he was captured and contained for three years, yet his muscles development is still there. He's described as the following: 'Basch is a 36-year-old man with a strong, muscular-though-emaciated build, a tall frame, and blue eyes.' If you have the chance, go take a look. This guy has the desired body type - and also rocks the manlyness.

Below are some images, but if you google him you can actually see that his chest isn't that broad.

[Lauront]

Yeah, Theodric posted him in the past as a possible inspiration. He’s an appealing choice.

[Nomuno]

The lack of male Viera is the most disappointing thing they have ever done. I'm officially unhappy with this game now.

Then be unhappy. It makes perfect sense if you know anything about viera lore!

[Lauront]

Then be unhappy. It makes perfect sense if you know anything about viera lore!

...which isn't even being used to block their addition and is far less restrictive than WHM lore, and on par with Mooncat lore.

[SieyaM]

...which isn't even being used to block their addition and is far less restrictive than WHM lore, and on par with Mooncat lore.

Oh yeah. If I am remembering right, and I am certain someone will correct me if I am not, only the padjali could become WHM, with the WoL being the sole exception to the rule.