Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
Also call it tinfoil hat theory but if Hrothgars needing Fantasia was a deliberate choice as "compensation" because they knew it wouldn't be a popular race then SE would outrank Blizz and EA in scummy business models.
If Blizzard had done something like this in WoW they would rightfully be a laughing stock and mocked all over the internet and especially on these forums, so you might not be far off the mark. There's no way I believe they started working on Hrothgar first and Viera was a last minute inclusion with how badly they bungled their implementation, they were barely finished to even show at their Fan Fest reveal and they had to hide them with dark filters while they kept working on them.

I've said it before but if they had done this with Au Ra people would have torched these forums to the ground.

They kept mum about this until the very end and were very lucky the male Viera supporters were so loud and angry that almost no one was paying attention to this anymore.