Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Alleo]

For all the talk of this outcry for a more beastly race to play in XIV, Hrothgar are still among the least played in the game. I think there was a small community of very vocal players that ended up deciding for the majority.

Well there are many factors that you have to look at here.

1. There are also those of us that wanted a playable beast race that are only playing females. Thus I wont play a male. In the past I would have said that if they include the female ones too I would 100% play them but thats not the case anymore because..
2. The first beastial race is quite limited. I doubt that people who wanted such races wanted barely any hairstyles, no ability to wear most of the hats and have to pay money if they wanted to change their manes..
3. People have different opinions on what is good looking. I wanted a slender beastial race. I dont like buff races and yet the new one falls under that. I also dont like the way they move. Even if you like playing as something more non-human you can still have certain aspects of it that just turn you off so much that you wont play it even when its released.

So yes we are probably not the majority and honestly I would have found it better to get one whole race and if that would have been the Viera than I would have accepted that. This half half decision imo just hurts both sides.

[zeylos]

Well there are many factors that you have to look at here.

1. There are also those of us that wanted a playable beast race that are only playing females. Thus I wont play a male. In the past I would have said that if they include the female ones too I would 100% play them but thats not the case anymore because..
2. The first beastial race is quite limited. I doubt that people who wanted such races wanted barely any hairstyles, no ability to wear most of the hats and have to pay money if they wanted to change their manes..
3. People have different opinions on what is good looking. I wanted a slender beastial race. I dont like buff races and yet the new one falls under that. I also dont like the way they move. Even if you like playing as something more non-human you can still have certain aspects of it that just turn you off so much that you wont play it even when its released.

So yes we are probably not the majority and honestly I would have found it better to get one whole race and if that would have been the Viera than I would have accepted that. This half half decision imo just hurts both sides.

at least, imo they should have added ronso (which is what players wanted) and not something that looks so... Akward. I just dont understand the need for another version of the least popular race in the game

[reivaxe]

at least, imo they should have added ronso (which is what players wanted) and not something that looks so... Akward. I just dont understand the need for another version of the least popular race in the game

First off, to quote myself ...
"That's not why you make a new race. You add new races to add diversity and to fill in gaps in your line up so that people have more ways to express themselves. Can't force people to take to new races, can't know how popular they will be, can only give them the option and know that the game's health and game WORLD is better off for it."
So what you consider a "different version" of Roe is actually another take on the large, muscular build which players had only 1 option for AND highlights something different and unique in their world.

Second, I find that line in THIS thread so funny because to quote YoshiP directly (yet again ...) "Final Fantasy games are games that have beautiful characters, but in the same fashion as in FFX, there are races that look rather stronger. I always use “Guin Saga” as an example. Since we are making a fantasy game, we wanted to give spotlight to that aspect, as well. We thought: “Why add more handsome races… even if we do, the biggest difference will be the ears…”. "

Like, I don't much care for dogging on Viera or male Viera. People gonna want what they want and like what they like. I get not being happy with getting X over Y, I feel the same about getting Viera over Female Hrothgar. But I really don't get why people feel the need to harp on it in this thread so much. Hrothgar's or Roe's popularity has nothing to do with this topic, if you feel what you want adds something meaningful to the game then you don't have to look else where to complain about not getting it.
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[Allegor]

at least, imo they should have added ronso (which is what players wanted) and not something that looks so... Akward. I just dont understand the need for another version of the least popular race in the game

The same could be said for Viera, they're "Elezen but better" the same way Hroths are "just Roe 2.0", and neither race was , or even is, popular.

Also if that chart is anything to go by, Hroths are still more popular than male and female Roegadyn combined.