Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Vahlnir]

Right, and to me Hrothgar are just Roegadyn with cat heads. Nothing unique there.

I am perfectly vindicated at looking at the numbers if people try to make claims about whether a race is a necessity or not. Even if all male Viera did was get male Miqo'te to swap to them, that alone is a much larger portion of the playerbase than the pittance who play male Roegadyn. My point is that SE, if they were hoping to captivate WoW refugees, has little to show for it as yet, because the deterrent to them playing this game really wasn't a very specific type of beast race body type being absent from it.

% of active chars played is a separate question to whether the race should be added but it certainly detracts from any claims premised on that ground as it ties in directly with the marginal profitability of the race, which tbh is the only metric by which one can claim if something is "needed" or not. Nice to haves =/= necessities and "unique" =/= value-additive in and of itself.

As far as attracting WoW refugees go, I don't think they were aiming to do so through playable races. People wanted an actual quality product to play and as things currently stand, WoW is not that. In that respect I think Yoshi P and SE have stepped up their game with Shadowbringers. It is off to an excellent start.

Regardless of how many you claim play certain races, SE apparently saw the benefit of adding Hrothgar. It wasn't out of the goodness of their hearts. There was clearly a large enough demand for it, and as a result reasonable profit to be had. If it was to no one's gain they wouldn't have bothered. Like them or hate them, they are here. And you don't seem to like them but that is okay.