Viera didn't blow up as big as we all thought.

[reivaxe]

For the same reason they made Viera in the first place: fan service, fantasias sells, etc. Actually, female Miqo'te, Auri and Viera are in different niches and have quite different auditory with different styles even though they all look similar, and my "looks at their rates" here goes more to the fact that playerbase overall seem to like handsome looking options more than everything else (which is kind of understandable in case with males tbh because most of MMO have horrible choices for male characters with waifu-cutewaifu-sexywaifu-everywhere for females). Same fancervise (kind of at least) it could be for males but we will not know until the moment (if) they would be implemented (that's why I also specify that it would depends on how they could look).

It doesn't mean that other options, such Hrothgars, should not exist - they should. But it doesn't make adding Vieras or anything else less relevant either and screaming "I DON'T APPROVE!!111!" because you personally would prefer something else, like some people do is just... no comments.

And it has nothing to do with being negative or positive, really and it's not redundant. But I suppose we just have different views here. /shrug/

I think people have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the money works in this. A race is the most expensive cosmetic option they can add to the game and to put it simply if they thought that the pay off in fantasias sells alone would warrant the added strain and resources of supporting more races they wouldn't be saying this is all they can handle ... they would legit make a new race every expansion if that were the case. The "real" pay off or profit to it would be in getting new players in the game and having a chance to hook them into the game world because now you offer something that appeals to them that wasn't there before.

You're right that Viera were added for "fan service" ... but the way Yoshi talked about it it seems more so like they felt they had to. Fans like myself pretty much brow beat them into doing it and to make current fans happy they went with it over Female Hrothgar. It's not just my words, the man legit says this. Same for the redundant bit, he literally said "what's the point in adding another handsome male if the only difference is the ears?". The reason to add a new race isn't to drag numbers away from something else already in the game, it's to offer something new to the line up that could appeal to people and bring in new players, to service people who aren't being serviced. (Atleast when your game doesn't look like it can run on a toaster that is. WoW can make all the new races they want because of how it looks)

You can disagree if you want, idc personally.
Like I said, I don't get that logic.