Quote Originally Posted by DBriggs304 View Post
Has nothing to do with lore as a singular reason. All of that is your own personal interpretation.

We know who the Viera are and how they are mainly represented...and we knew this well before launch.

We aren't victims of disinformation.
Personal interpretation of what? How the FFXII lore was dropped into FFXIV almost verbatim, but that lore doesnt quite fit within the context of FFXIVs world building?

The reasons we dont have Male Viera were loosely explained after the reveals, not before. So up until Hrothgar reveal, there was a decent reason to believe that we might be getting male Viera based on past precedent as well as issues with the lore. You can try and spin this how you see fit, but there was no knowing for sure before the hrothgar reveal. The best you got is you stuck with lore reasons from another title as justification and it panned out.

When we look at the full context of the situation, it seems like the lore reasons provided were more an after thought rather than an actual design decision. Meaning, They wanted a beast like race, but also understood that people have been asking for Viera since forever, and met half way on this to fulfill both with the expectation that it would work out and people wouldnt think about it to much in the context of FFXIV. This particular half way was decided upon because they expressed teh issue with creating new races and how the system works regarding that. There are pragmatic limitations to how the CC works and how FFXIV handles dealing with character models and the like.

Of course this didnt pan out. People want male viera, and female hrothgar for that matter, and the lore reasons dont hold up. If you dont think so, just go rewatch the Hrothgar reveal. The audience can be heard clearly groaning in disappointment. It was the immediate buzz following the reveal. A lot of people werent all that happy.

There was no 'disinformation'. There were expectations and failures on both the parts of the devs and the audience.