Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[SomeRandomHuman]

What halfassed excuse? Again, they were foreword about why they did what they did. When asked, YoshiP answered. He gave that exact reason.
And to this day, most Pro Male Viera people either pretend he never said it, or refuse to accept it.

Why are you giving them an Ultimatum, over something that was explained? They did what they did for a reason, that they explained. They didnt hide it, or lie about it.
Chewing them out/Harassing them isn't the right way to go about this. Especially after YoshiP said that they would find a solution if they can. But he didn't make any promises.

I suggest you read this post again:

He was ambigous on purpose. If I remember it correctly they even said that they knew that they would get backlash for the decision of including only half of the genders. And of course being vague does not mean yes but under the circumstances the chance that male vieras would happen was just so big. Why should people assume that SE decided to suddenly go back to horrible gender restrictions? And some of us did point it out and we did get told down. Its the same like alot of topics here. Anyone daring to say something negative and a few people will always come and say that we should just trust SE, that they wont do it. And if they do something which we see as bad we are told that we should wait...

Just like we got told that SE said that we will get new hairstyles for the new races and that we should wait...a whole expansion with the new genders is over soon and we did not get a single one. Of course now the goal post was moved again and we are told that SE never said any specific time so its on us again for being disappointed..

Are people sometimes jumping to conclusions too early? Of course! But a lot of time its also thanks to the hype that the devs like to create.



I searched it up.

Ricedigital wrote this after the first fanfest:

In a press conference, Yoshida was asked whether this was going to continue to be the case or whether male Viera would be coming with the 5.0 update to the popular MMO. However, he refused to comment on this matter, teasing that this would be revealed at the Tokyo Fan Fest on March 23rd-24th 2019 (he even did a motion zipping his mouth).

Another site wrote this:

Update: Speaking with Stevivor at a press conference, Producer Naoki Yoshida said that fans will have to wait until Shadowbreakers‘ Tokyo reveal event for more information about male Viera.


Yet another site:
During a Q&A conference with press, game director Naoki Yoshida was asked about the absence of male Viera and the possibility of the race being gender locked to women only. Yoshida refused to commit to an answer, instead remarking that more would be revealed at the Japan Fan Fest, which took place last week. Stirring the pot further, Yoshida also remarked that the Viera would likely be the final race to be added to Final Fantasy XIV, leading many to believe that a reveal of the male Viera options would be coming.


The part you mean is the following which was said after the second fanfest after the backlash started!

In an interview with Gamespot, conducted at the Tokyo Fan Fest, producer Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida responded to the fan outcry. The key exchange is this section:

"We have to identify what they're coming from, so we can respond correctly," Yoshida said about concerned fans. "We want to review all the feedback that players gave. The bottom line is that the addition of a race takes quite a lot of cost; it's really quite an undertaking."

Yoshida added that in Final Fantasy XII, which is where Viera is from, the male Viera do not show themselves in public, so Final Fantasy XIV Online is staying loyal to the lore with only offering a female option. Yoshida explained that the male-only Hrothgar is Square Enix's effort to offer a new male-only race in response to Viera being female-only.

They also went back on the lore statement later and again flip flopped between reasons afterwards quite a bit...from stating that Hrothgar were created first, to them saying that they choose Viera but saw the want for a more bestial race thus introduced the male Hrothgars too. See just one statement being changed from one interview to the other.

The lore reason is also bad because the NPC mentions the males existing, just that he never saw one.