Quote Originally Posted by Atamis View Post
That will require retconning lore. As one of the "deals" with Fran and the "queen" is to take in refugees from Robanastre. Many of who were Viera. (and i guess Bangaa weren't welcome)
But we both know that isn't happening and they have no reason too. Being spiteful isn't going to make people change their minds about this.
You mean retconning the lore the same way they did for male miqo'te and duskwright elezen? When it comes to making a race playable, lore means absolutely nothing.

No matter their excuse, gender locking races in this day and age is 125% unacceptable. They unlocked previously gender locked races, and said they were past doing gender locks. No matter how you try to defend the matter its still hypocritical and unprofessional on SE's part. Had I the chance, I'd sit down and talk with the dev team about how much of a stain this puts on their moral consistency.

It may be a small matter to some, but considering they have made the counter parts for other races for 2.0, its just entirely unacceptable for any reason for them to gender lock again. It needs to be fixed lest they spiral down yet another hole they dug themselves into.