Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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Yoshi-P outlined the problems with adding viera/hrothgar complete genders in a post right after Shadowbringers dropped, and nothing has changed the situation FFXIV's dev team is in.

If any of you watched the presentation on game production during Liveletter tonight you'd see that they're dealing with 75-85 days per patch to complete each patch cycle, on top of working on the next expansion. His post details the extreme time overhead that adding races adds to the patch cycle. The fact that hrothgar and viera have fewer headgear options and hairstyles is testimony alone to the truth of that.

They simply do not have the time or human resources to add more genders while keeping that tight patch schedule.

It would be great to see new genders, but as of right now the chance is extremely low, and I think it's even lower with covid.

Obviously, he would not open the announcement stream with such disappointing news, or really spend any time on it. Chances are, you'll only find out by its exclusion from the list of features in the 6.0 update.

This team has been able to do some wonderful things in the past, but they just had to push the new Ultimate back to 6.1, and if the reason was that they were working on male viera and female hrothgar, they would have told you tonight.

But the fact they they didn't use that as a reason for pushing back the new Ultimate points to them not being included in 6.0.