Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
As I see it, they took a gamble and underestimated the amount of people who were interested in playing as a male Viera and overestimated the amount of people who were interested in playing a beast race.

At the moment, male Hrothgar are among the least played race/gender combination in the game. I've always felt as though the push for a beast race in this game was more about people wanting to see one added to the game rather than because they wanted to play one themselves. In other words, a lot of the people pushing for Viera to be added fully intended to play one, whereas many of those pushing for a beast race weren't nearly as committed.
I mean even on the forum it was pretty clear that the old Viera threads always gotten more posts and discussion than any thread about wanting a beast race. So if SE really believed that a big amount of players would play a beast race then its on them, because its quite clear imo that it would always just be a minority. Which is why I who wanted to play a beastlike female was quite fine if we got just a complete Viera race.

Another problem is of course that on one side you have a race that already existed in other FF games (the viera) which means that at least for the females there were clear indicators on what to expect. This is not the case for a beast race. I for example would have loved to get a lupin race. Others wanted the Ronso from another FF. And many more might have liked other forms. So even if one wanted a beast race it could simply be that the Hrothgar are not of their taste, so its understandable why they are not played. (They are using the body proportions of the other least played race after all) Heck I want them to include the female versions of the Hrothgar but I am not sure if I would play one. I still need to like the look of a race to play it after all.

In the end I remember that quite a few people posted that it would be better to have a beast race for more diversity instead of the viera that would fall into the human+animal parts of it...