Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[LunarLunatic]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

[WhiteArchmage]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

Boy, someone didn't read past the first...3 pages? Where were we about that sticky?

[Duskane]

It turns out they are finally adding male Viera for upcoming easter event

I knew we would see such a witty and original comment
Just like everything else added that is rabbit related

[Allegor]

I knew we would see such a witty and original comment
Just like everything else added that is rabbit related

I would be greatly amused if they give Viera different/extra dialogue to question the bunny theme. Doubtful, but would be funny to see.


(Also please don't feed the insultingly low bait troll)

[Tabbs]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

Oh sorry, I didn't have a chance to read up on the lore because the entire female Viera population up and left the woods to purchase every copy of the lore book from their Local Dalmascan Book Store™. Only 5% of the Dalmascan population btw.

[Duskane]

I would be greatly amused if they give Viera different/extra dialogue to question the bunny theme. Doubtful, but would be funny to see.


(Also please don't feed the insultingly low bait troll)

Its possible thats for sure if you did MH event as a miqote and said "a talking cat!?" The palico would say "look who's talking"
Sadly dont get this line with hrothgar but its somewhat understandable why.

[Halivel]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

Topic about lore was brought up and discussed plenty amounts of time. It barely works with playable characters, because if it did, we should delete 50% of playable content (including playable female Viera). Yet here we are.

[wereotter]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

Since this record seems to be on repeat, let's have the obligatory response of:

Every reason there can not be rabbit men also applies to cat men and duskwight elezen, yet we have both of those. Lore was a weak excuse that Yoshida gave as the initial reason they didn't create them only to backtrack on that and tell us the truth, they just didn't have the time and resources to do it.

[Crushnight]

If people actually read the lore then you will know why the male viera is not around. Ya need to stop asking for something that won't happen. If they say no the accept it. To those say that they not gonna sub until it happens get over yourself. Your $15 a month is not going to make or break square enix. So go stop complaining and play the game.

If we used lore to prevent things then why haven't you gone to save female Hrothgars they are either giving birth to incredibly large groups of babies or in a perpetual state of childbirth as they do not live anywhere near as long as Viera do to justify a heavy skewed towards male children.

Also going to ignore male moon keepers who have a worse population than male Viera (that we know about atm merycidia may be different no info yet), how about Yugiri hiding her face due to it may shock people even to Au Ras, or Ast cards/time abilities that are straight up still in the questline, or the gloriousness that everything from ARR to ShB is in a 1year time span on the source, 2-6 years for the characters (twins-Thancred).

Maybe just maybe lore is not the final word but what the actual developers say, and all they said is maybe if we can spare the resources(not a yes, not a no either).

[zeylos]

Ultimates are very niche content, though. It was always a "maybe" with 3 ultimates for SHB. Whilst I have no problem with them adding another, the biggest stumbling block to this game for new players is the ARR leveling experience. As for PVP, if you look at the mount figures from Lucky Bancho's latest survey you will see they suggest Frontlines and RW have a fairly decent uptake as game modes when compared to ultimates, and it's fairly decent filler content. Nonetheless, they seem content to have some game modes, like ultimate, where it's not the uptake but the high skill requirement which makes it worthwhile, so I guess it's a very discretionary thing whether to add or remove one for an expansion. On the whole, as a business proposition with resource constraints, prioritisation is nonetheless key.

As for the graphics, it really depends on which part of it we're talking about. The low res textures are not a great look in a game trying to vie for limited consumer time and money in the current day and age. The tradeoffs we are seeing, with the deep dungeon, 2 dungeons over the expansion and Hildibrand quests being cut are indicative of resources being reallocated to projects that will improve the game's overall profitability and attractiveness to new players. I will reserve judgement until 6.0 to see if it's true, but it is consistent with how they have framed such tradeoffs in the past. Overall, I think the content that is making it in, is of a very good quality for the most part.

I think two shiny new playable models would make the game very attractive, plsu a lot of people who see the genderlocks as sexism (I dont think it is personally) will also be happy and likely return. Then again, maybe theyre gonna do something else. In 2 daqys theres that developer blog series thing, maybe there we can hopefully learn something