Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Amnmaat]

I said " they are often not representative of the final product." Often does not mean Always.
But also, unless I missed it and you can show me a screenshot, the Lupin did not come out that Muscular, so thats one design choice that got altered. That or just covered up. Also in game they were given taller ears.

Your still looking at Concept art, these are rough sketches that were sketched up, and still to this day, un-used. If they were still gonna pursue Male Viera, I bet they would look much different then these Conceptual Sketches. And if you didnt know, a more detailed sketch or a Fullbody vs a Bust sketch, is still a sketch. Your drawing a conclusion that because the bigger more detailed Lupin Sketch Mostly made it into the game, that the final slightly more detailed sketch of the Male Viera would make it into the game. Just because it might look more detailed, doesn't mean its the final or even decided concept. Nothing your seeing there is definitive, if it was, then it would already be in the game instead of Au-ra, or even back in SB.

Again picking at straws, that Lupin concept turned out looking the same way.
Just like Elezen's official art turned out the same. Art and 3D don't always turn out 100% the same, they're always very close approximations with slight differences



Mind sourcing or quoting those interviews, they were either very brief or without any real details other than "some people wanted beast race."
As for your Au ra point, no, the point is if they really wanted variety in the races Au ra was their opportunity to do so. That's why they got the backlash they got with hrothgar because everyone and their grandmother knew it was NA and EU's chance to get the race they've been asking for for over 6 years: Viera. Why didn't they listen to the minority of Japanese who wanted an Oni race when deciding to add Au ra? It's just a really messed up decision, and they know it. That's the part you don't understand, they know it's a messed up decision with a lot of backlash. You can't ignore the fact that a wave of Guild wars 2, world of warcraft, and Elder scrolls players were leaving those games in 2019 with their failures. The coincidence is no coincidence, it was planned around those events; forced on the devs by corporate.

Didn't Yoshi P say that he imagines a male Viera to have a Elezen body with a Miqo'te head? Excluding the chest hair that concept art does kind of look like how he imagine them to be

No, I don't think he said Miqo'te.

And if we imply they can tell sex but just allowed to live in villages before reaching puberty, then there's no any real issues with naming, and boys and girls can be named as in any other race (though I personally like non-gendered names concept). In this case the name question would be just what names sound like, without the deep need to consider other factors.

I don't like that idea, Viera already feels like a half-assed/lazy race. The last thing we need is the same name for male/female, getting dangerously close to catering to LGBT. Not that I'm against LGBT, but that's a decision people make individually, not something pushed on a race to appease/fit said crowd.