Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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Ive made this point, somehow it means you are discrediting someone, and just shutting down conversation.

That isn't what happened and conveniently ignores the whole suggestion to agree to disagree on specific points of, well, disagreement.

At any rate, it doesn't particularly matter to me that WoW has been around for longer - FFXIV isn't exactly a fresh game and has had requests for expanded character customisation right from the very start. Blizzard took feedback into account and actively worked to fix issues with character models. FFXIV chooses to ignore them, even when there's glaring flaws - such as the lack of eyebrows for Highlander men.

Opting to add two new races, which are gender locked and can't use helmets is something quite worthy of eyebrow raising. Especially when the only reason Viera were a popular request in the first place was due to a lot of people wanting to specifically play bunny men and see what they were like once and for all. Very few of the official PR statements even make sense under scrutiny, either. Hrothgar are justified as something 'new' and 'different' but Viera don't really qualify as that since they're just another case of 'waifu bait' and any elements of them that were different (such as having clawed feet/hands and a tail) were removed during the transition from FFXII to FFXIV.