Quote Originally Posted by official_coconut View Post
Right now SE is more focused on the FF7 remake and yet another FFXV mobile mmo for China. Viera and Hrothgar couldn't be lower on their list of things to worry about
All the fanart in the world isn't enough to show how much people wanted these missing genders if they refuse to listen to feedback.

Also, as for what the posts above are referencing, that mod creator didn't "have a meltdown" they got their address leaked and their life put in mortal danger by twitter social justice warrior furries and SE fanatics who defend this trend of limited content. Then people wonder why Fortnite beat FFXIV for best community. My current stance is that SE should never have bothered making these races if it was going to drive people to do crazy things like this and that these threads should all be locked.
First of all, the fact that SE is also making FF7 remake and whatever else literally means nothing for FFXIV because they're completely different teams. FFXIV has its own team within SE, which means that they very well might be working on male Viera and female Hrothgar, so that's kind of a silly argument. Yoshi-P had clearly said that if people show enough interest they'd look into creating the counterparts of these races, but ultimately they're two new sets of models so I wouldn't expect them to arrive earlier than 6.0. I think the community has been quite vocal on the situation so I'm fairly sure the dev team has gotten the memo, unfortunately, these things take time to make especially if we also want dungeons, raids + their gear and all the other type of content we're getting so patience does go a long way.

With that said, if I remember correctly said person with the Viera mods had said some very questionable things and had harassed a few people first, which in turn caused everyone to attack him causing him to have his little meltdown and bail. Don't remember seeing anywhere that people sought him out IRL and ultimately you're confusing the Twitter mob for this game's entire community which is kinda silly as well, especially considering how much of a lynch mentality Twitter has. FFXIV's community is nice, but just like literally every other online platform ever there's toxic people in it and there's nothing anyone can really do to prevent this.

Also, Fortnite won Best Ongoing Game, not Best Community. You're thinking of the Community Support Award which went to Destiny 2 and not Fortnite, which again has nothing to do with how nice the community is but rather how fast and responsive the game's Support is to help the community when they require assistance.