Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Alleo]

The hype for male viera was on the community, yoshiP never said it was happening, and with FF lore, we have in fact never actually saw a Male Viera. We can argue and talk circles about that subject yet AGAIN, but at this point its just rehashing a fruitless argument and its quite boring. Look, ill agree that maybe he should have outright said no, or maybe even then, should have just not said anything, cause more and more, it sounds like the backlash isn't so much the genderlock, as it is that people had an inkling of hope they might see male viera because they weren't told "no" Was it marketing or PR, I cant say and I wont pretend it was.

Is it possible that as a Japanese Company they just work differently then American Companies? Just asking, cause this is my 1st real MMO, and which how people talk about SE it sometimes sounds like they think a Japanese company would be run the same as an american company. IDK, I got no frame of reference.

The hype was completely on SE...again Yoshida was asked after the reveal of the females if we get male vieras and he just kept on increasing the hype. He bascially was like "you will see at the next fanfest" which seeing how we always got all genders and no other race was on the door at that time, that this was a yes. Anyone at that time that kind of pointed out that this is strange was talked down because we should believe in Yoshida and his team and that they would not lie to us. They did. They answered the question that way on purpose.

Yes japanese companies or japenese people in general have the "dont lose face" mentality. Which might be part of the problem but that should not be something we have to worry about. And as others have pointed out he has no problems being quite straight with some of his answers so its not like he can never say no at all.

If they say they have no plans but still do it what would be the problem? People would simply be happy...it would be a wonderful surprise and a lot of people would surely praise them to the heavens for it.
If they say yes but plans change that of course will leave people disappointed BUT instead of just not doing it and being silent or mixed about it just post one of the nice long Yoshi-P posts where he explains the reason in detail. It would not be perfect but if you communicate then there will be much less backlash. But they simply seems to not communicate at all.