Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[zeylos]

100% Agree. Missing genders as a selling point of 6.0? I'd grumble a little but be ok with it. Customization options which we should have in 5.x? Noooope, I want my fancy RDM hat, tyvm. I'm somewhat content with the options for Viera since most of my glamours used the Baron Circlet, but some things like the aforementioned RDM hat or Eden headgear which was made for this expansion just... baffle me...

Actually, as much as Id like it to be here as soon as 5.1, we dont know when theyll come, same for missing genders, so I have no idea when the changes will come. I doubt it will be before 5.3 though, if what they said about gear refit is true

[zeylos]

100% Agree. Missing genders as a selling point of 6.0? I'd grumble a little but be ok with it. Customization options which we should have in 5.x? Noooope, I want my fancy RDM hat, tyvm. I'm somewhat content with the options for Viera since most of my glamours used the Baron Circlet, but some things like the aforementioned RDM hat or Eden headgear which was made for this expansion just... baffle me...

also, I wonder why ppl says 'the options for viera', personally I say ' the options for female viera' I dont really understand why other ppl dont do the same (I know its a minor detail, but Im legit curious bout it)

[Mikhaill]

100% Agree. Missing genders as a selling point of 6.0? I'd grumble a little but be ok with it. Customization options which we should have in 5.x? Noooope, I want my fancy RDM hat, tyvm. I'm somewhat content with the options for Viera since most of my glamours used the Baron Circlet, but some things like the aforementioned RDM hat or Eden headgear which was made for this expansion just... baffle me...

Wait...You can't wait some of 5.0's headgear either?
Especially AF's?
Oooh have they rushed these races out the gate so poorly...
What a sad shame.

[Theodric]

Just speculation but I wonder if the development team simply did not want to add any additional playable races but were told to anyway by those above them? It may explain why things played out in the way that they did.

[Mylionare]

Just speculation but I wonder if the development team simply did not want to add any additional playable races but were told to anyway by those above them? It may explain why things played out in the way that they did.

Perhaps I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, the expansion seems very very strong in my opinion, with or without new races, but I see the marketing reasoning for adding in the viera and the hrothgar. Both satisfy a much asked for want.

[SturmChurro]

Wait...You can't wait some of 5.0's headgear either?
Especially AF's?
Oooh have they rushed these races out the gate so poorly...
What a sad shame.

The majority, no. I bet they probably didn't intend to at first, and what we have right now is entirely part of what the developers did on their own time. I'm betting the assets were made prior. Hopefully later patches have more headgear fit to viera heads (and hrothgar), or just more new stuff in general added for them.

[Nynuwe]

Just speculation but I wonder if the development team simply did not want to add any additional playable races but were told to anyway by those above them? It may explain why things played out in the way that they did.

Given certain events that happened during the development of Heavensward and since, I would say this is less about lack of want and more about how a string of arguably poor decisions from devs and higher ups drove them into this corner. And now we all have to take a ticket, and wait patiently in the waiting room for this little mess to straighten itself out. No other choice but to do so.

[Theodric]

Given certain events that happened during the development of Heavensward and since, I would say this is less about lack of want and more about how a string of arguably poor decisions from devs and higher ups drove them into this corner. And now we all have to take a ticket, and wait patiently in the waiting room for this little mess to straighten itself out. No other choice but to do so.

What events do you refer to, out of curiosity?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Just speculation but I wonder if the development team simply did not want to add any additional playable races but were told to anyway by those above them? It may explain why things played out in the way that they did.

I think this is a little silly.
Higher-Ups or "Investors" wouldn't force the Dev team to undergo such a task. Not like the game is new and YoshiP is trying to convince anybody to give them money to develop, then the devs are making them do stuff in return.
This was something the Dev team talked over about doing, and they decided on their own: no corporate suit told them to do it. So the Devs decided to put in Viera, but then decided to split resources and also address the idea of a Beast race, due to users liking the Lupin.
I don't wanna sit here and waste time to repeat Verbatim what YoshiP already said about the genderlocks.

[Nynuwe]

What events do you refer to, out of curiosity?

Oh boy. If I explained it here, it may derail the thread, and likely get ganged upon on top of it. Can I just send it to you through a PM?