Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
Yes and in practice they're Roegadyn with a cat mask. Huge innovation there. All they did is cannibalise Roegadyn numbers. The game did not "need" them in any sense and what they added was nothing much new. I'd like to see them perform well so that SE has an incentive to add male Viera. In essence, it was little more than a rushed attempt to grab these vaunted WoW refugees.

The lore defence is garbage, BTW. Viera males do exist in other settings and Matsuno had no issue with them being added. It isn't a "lore defence". It's a "SE didn't get round to adding them in XII, so they shouldn't be added in XIV" defence.

But if it doesn't bother you or (allegedly) the JP crowd, whatever. Seems more like that the JP crowd have made their views on the matter known and have moved on since. Not that they don't care.



It's simple: to the people who want them added, it is an issue.

As I said, Hrothgar are nothing special, were not necessary and could have been implemented in a dozen different ways. They're just Roegadyn with cat masks. Wow.

So, none of those points really disqualify male Viera.
Sure, they use a modified Roe body, but regardless of what you say, they are indeed very diffrent. They arent just Roe's with cat ears, but you can argue that they are Roe's with cat heads I suppose. The fact is, the head is so unique enough, that that alone makes it different. The only thing Male viera will bring is another humanoid head with ears, period.