Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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People have been pointing out for years YP's line about not doing Male Viera and people kinda convinced themselves that they promised to never do 1 gender races again regardless... like this vvv

Perhaps he will reconsider his stance like he has done on a few other things. This thread was created in order to show support for the inclusion of male viera, so chill out. Their appearance is a topic of discussion, but at the end of the day, what they look like would be up to the devs. I think we should respect the design choice of the devs if male viera really do get included.

All this means is that before we ever get a new race (which we know isn't happening, they said these are the last) they would first do the counter-parts to what we have (something they have never confirmed to be doing. MAYBE they will show us NPCs at some point but even that's iffy as they know how much that would trigger a massive wave of people not realizing why an NPC is easier to make than a PC)

A new race might not be entirely off the table.

When asked about whether viera and hrothgar would be the last new races to be introduced to the game, and if there were any plans to add more customization options to the established races, Yoshi P responded like this:

"if it is a customization option that significantly changes the shape of the races body, I think we would be better off to tackle the challenge of just introducing a new playable race all together instead."


Source: Link

Also, they probably won't show female hrothgar/male viera NPCs unless they are prepared to make them playable. Viera and hrothgar NPCs were not given head items at the start of ShB because the dev team was aware people would then ask "why can't we wear head items then?" This was a concern Yoshi P expressed in one of the live letters - the same logic can apply to the other genders as well. If we do see a male viera or female hrothgar NPC, then it would be safe to assume they will be playable options later.