Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Amnmaat]

Thats Concept art, so maybe they toyed with the idea, but thats not a Finalized Canon Illustration. Its not in-world/In-game.
And I dont know if thats the only thing you've looked at, but there are a few other pages that show Concept art for Beast Races, like the Au-ra were almost Full-dragon people, and the Lupin were illustrated. Sadly they didnt make it in HW, but made it in SB....as NPC characters and a few enemies.
So there was in interest in a beast race to btw.

Right, and thats a theory of yours, so Im asking if you have a solid source that brought you to that idea, or if your making it up because you think it makes sense even without confirmation. You say Confidently that its Corporate PR, but what makes you say that it is, how can we not take YoshiPs words to heart on this matter?

One of the Au ra concept arts turned out to be exactly like what ended up in XIV. So again, one of the male Viera concept arts would/will end up what we get in the end. You're picking at straws to make it seem like male Viera don't exist canonically when they obviously do, both in writing and visually; they just have to decide which concept art to use.

I know how PR and marketing works, don't to the very minute details. Not only was YoshiP's response in writing only (which signals to it being a carefully crafted PR/marketing statement) but it also hides his how he really feels about how corporate forced him to add a beastial race. Furthermore, notice how he didn't explain why they chose a beastial race like hrothgar at the Japanese fanfest. The tell tale signs are clear if you understand PR.

I do think FFXIV suffers terribly from the lack of a major rival. Blizzard sat on their hands for years despite many requests for broader character customisation in World of Warcraft yet to their credit they updated their character models across the board once already and are set to do so again during their upcoming expansion.

I'd also note that very few companies are going to actually put forward anything other than carefully manufactured PR statements in the face of controversy - and the missing gender situation is very much a controversy.

Yes, notice how this was a written letter, passed through PR, marketing, and corporate to paint the company in the best of lights when they realized we preferred a complete race as opposed to 2 incomplete ones.

As for FFXIV suffering from lack of competition, yeah, as the try to gobble up players from other mmos they end up not listening to what the current FFXIV players want. In one interview Yoshida talks about how they wanted Hrothgar to be the "ugly and strong" race to be a counter to Viera's beautiful/elegant look but let's be real here, Roegadyn is already that. And they act as if male Au ra can't represent that as well

Roegadyn even have a lot of cat/feline features to them. From the lion eyes to the cat like hair




Roegadyn, specially the Hellsguard clan was based off cat or thereof. They even get one of miqo'te's hairstyles.


Just irks me when they force Yoshida to come out with these carefully scripted excuses.