Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Theodric]

Whether it's 'garbage' or not is entirely subjective in itself. There's a lot about the game's lore that I'm not particularly keen on, but there's plenty of people who enjoy the stuff that I dislike. I also doubt that people playing male viera is going to help the cause given that quite a lot of people - myself included - find the workarounds to look utterly ridiculous. As a role-player myself, I can't say I'm particularly interested in interacting with people who have characters that are completely 'out there' either. Grounded, well written characters are much more engaging. Especially if they look and act like they're actually a part of the setting and operate within the confines of the established story/world.

Development reasons aside, the only course of action SE has lore wise for Male Viera is to say what I mentioned above. Itll probably be dressed up a bit, but its going to boil down to "Things are serious, so male viera are breaking with tradition to join the 'war effort'." This is unfortunate, cause we couldve had so much more interesting things to do with Viera, but the devs decided to really play up that FF12 nostalgia and painted themselves into a corner lore wise.

It's not solely a matter of playing up the nostalgia for FF12. It's also due to limitations as to where development resources can go. They've outright stated that it could go either way - they might be added to the game in the future, though equally they might not. If they are added to the game then a reason for their existence will be put forward. If they're never added to the game, however, then the current lore serves as a solid reason as to why they aren't around.