Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[JackMorgan]

C'mon SE, get rid of those dirty genderlocks on races!

[glitteringcosmos]

I'm sick of the genderlocking in general. Come on SE it's the year of our lord 2020 NOBODY WANTS GENDERLOCKED STUFF. If you make items, make them available to all players. I KNOW they can do it. Looking at the 2b set from Copied Factory and the retroactive gender-unlocking of the bunny suits from Gold Saucer. Also salty about the wicked awesome DRK pose being female only.

TLDR Please for the love of all that is good SE do away with genderlocks. +1 male viera and +1 lady hrothgar

[DeaconIsh]

Have there been any indications that we will ever get this? I'd play one in a heartbeat.

[Veliaire]

#IStandWithMaleVieras

[Daniolaut]

Honestly after seeing how Male Hrothgar, and Female Viera were treated, and how it seems the Dev team is now somehow overloaded with gear creation, and for some reason unable to make hairstyle for these 2 new races, I am now fully against them adding more races/genders.

I would rather have a cleanly designed game, with all races being equal in options, instead of half baked races/jobs.

I'm truly sorry. I do not understand why this is so difficult especially considering Female Viera is literally just Female Highlander/Elezen, and Hrothgar is just Roegadyn, but with different heads. (for the most part. Obviously not "exactly.")

This is my opinion.

[Veliaire]

I'm sick of the genderlocking in general. Come on SE it's the year of our lord 2020 NOBODY WANTS GENDERLOCKED STUFF. If you make items, make them available to all players. I KNOW they can do it. Looking at the 2b set from Copied Factory and the retroactive gender-unlocking of the bunny suits from Gold Saucer. Also salty about the wicked awesome DRK pose being female only.

TLDR Please for the love of all that is good SE do away with genderlocks. +1 male viera and +1 lady hrothgar

Square Enix likes the fact that they have total control over how the game is played. Even with easy stuff like housing.. where it would be easy to be able to put a window on a partition wall. They lock everything down because they think they know how to play the game better than you. They are like the HOA, Apple or Nintendo.. If they don't let you put simple things like stuffed animals on the stairs in your house you fought tooth and nail to get, do you think they are gonna take out gender locked clothes? Not that I even bother with glamour since I play Miqote and I can't stand that everything I own has my tail clipped through it.. as if the dev team couldn't be bothered to design a race-friendly version for those of us with tails.

[Veliaire]

Honestly after seeing how Male Hrothgar, and Female Viera were treated, and how it seems the Dev team is now somehow overloaded with gear creation, and for some reason unable to make hairstyle for these 2 new races, I am now fully against them adding more races/genders.

Final Fantasy XIV is one of the most popular and subscribed to MMOs on the market. All I hear from people when it comes to enhancing this game is that "it's too much work" or something like that. What are we paying a sub for? Not for the game runners to combat bots or scammers. Not to fix the absolutely atrocious housing situation... but less and less dungeons and trials each expansion. That's what we are paying for.

I would rather have a cleanly designed game, with all races being equal in options, instead of half baked races/jobs.

This is AUSTERITY. They should be able to give us male Viera and Female Hrothgar AND make sure they are not neglected when it comes to glamour and hair styles. We shouldn't need to pick and choose between more content and quality. They are making a KILLING, especially from the cash shop. They should HIRE MORE PEOPLE and get the job DONE.

[wereotter]

Final Fantasy XIV is one of the most popular and subscribed to MMOs on the market. All I hear from people when it comes to enhancing this game is that "it's too much work" or something like that. What are we paying a sub for? Not for the game runners to combat bots or scammers. Not to fix the absolutely atrocious housing situation... but less and less dungeons and trials each expansion. That's what we are paying for.

The money brought in by FFXIV doesn't stay to fund just the game, though. The executives only give XIV just enough budget to continue running, and nothing more. This is, in part, why we keep hearing about how the developers are implementing additions to the game "on their own time"

No one was paid for the addition of flying to the ARR zones, no one was paid to model and develop what limited headgear viera and hrothgar currently can wear. There are other titles in development or that didn't make back their development costs, and the cash cow that is FFXIV goes to supporting those other titles. So until the people who hold the purse strings at Square decide to give Yoshi more money, he is limited as far as how many people he can hire to do this development, especially when you consider that adding new races is an ongoing expense since every new piece of gear has to be modeled to fit and tested with every battle action and every emote to make sure the character model doesn't clip through the clothing item.

I still want to see the races completed. But we do have to remember that they don't have all the financial resources brought in by the game at their disposal, only whatever allowance they're given by those higher up.

[Theodric]

It doesn't help that it is notoriously difficult to give feedback in regards to various issues and problems with the game. Aside from the language barrier, our community representatives are not a vocal and visible presence and seemingly spend all their time on Twitter rather than the official forum.

European players missed out altogether on the black fat chocobo promotion that Japanese and North American players received. Despite attempts to get a response on that front, there's only been radio silence - and even the official response to the missing genders wasn't all that great in hindsight. It unintentionally led many outside observers believe that most people asking for male viera wanted them to be child-like. Which wasn't the case at all, that was just a vocal minority.

[Ayuhra]

Final Fantasy XIV is one of the most popular and subscribed to MMOs on the market. All I hear from people when it comes to enhancing this game is that "it's too much work" or something like that. What are we paying a sub for? Not for the game runners to combat bots or scammers. Not to fix the absolutely atrocious housing situation... but less and less dungeons and trials each expansion. That's what we are paying for.



This is AUSTERITY. They should be able to give us male Viera and Female Hrothgar AND make sure they are not neglected when it comes to glamour and hair styles. We shouldn't need to pick and choose between more content and quality. They are making a KILLING, especially from the cash shop. They should HIRE MORE PEOPLE and get the job DONE.

I agree but I think the issue holding back FFXIV isn't money. It's partially resources and mostly the spaghetti code they made to get ARR out the door. It functions but boy howdy they did not future proof it. Should they find a way of fixing the engine so it can actually support customization, gear and expanding inventories? Yes. Absolutely. IDK if they'll do it, though.