Quote Originally Posted by Saix027 View Post
That is actually the point that pisses me off here the most about this subject, this "lore" is only canon due from the game they are YET, everything else we goten so far, races, content, everything literally based on every other game was fitted to fit in the lore of FFXIV, this is NOT FFIIX, they can change the lore as they want, yet due there own screwup they use this as excuse, stop kidding yourself with this. For god sake, we got a Nier Automata Raid, they can fit anything in basically, so why not male Viera?

There's a reason why viera are mostly unchanged lore-wise. The original writer for all of the Ivalice games was invited to create a new raid series (Return to Ivalice) and he brought a bunch of the Ivalice races over with the same names and appearances and everything. Back then, viera were not planned to be an additional player race. Viera were only added because of the players asking to play one from the first race polls, and then Fran being added to the game pushed it even more when the devs were already planning on something else. With only 1 race left to add, they made the decision to split the difference between what the fans want and what was originally planned as the last race (hrothgar). The reason we don't have male viera is not because of lore. Lore is used to reason why things are they way they are, but it was either having just one new race or 1 gender of each. We don't see the other gender in the game because they don't have models for them. It's that simple.

People asking for male viera and female hrothgar aren't being ignored. Yoshi-P has already addressed this and explained why it is the way it is. And he said that it will stay the way it is unless they can address their own development problems that are preventing them from adding these. Hastily typing frustrated accusations that aren't even true isn't helping "the cause". Plus, the game has ALWAYS been about fanservice from the very beginning of Yoshi's reign in 1.0 when he added jobs, and it has continued and expanded ever since. The whole point of this MMO is a "Final Fantasy theme park". Yeah, the NieR stuff is kind of strange to randomly be here, but considering NieR has crossed over with every other Japanese IP and the story fell flat during the only time they made an original Alliance Raid story with no connections to another game, I'm OK with it.