Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[RyuDragnier]

Looking beautiful is not "exotic".

Fixed that for you.

[grimgamer09]

Fixed that for you.

I've had it with you. You are a disgrace to the Hrothgar wearing leather kind. I demand that you remove all leather and replace it with something more fitting, perhaps a diaper and a bib.

[RyuDragnier]

I've had it with you. You are a disgrace to the Hrothgar wearing leather kind. I demand that you remove all leather and replace it with something more fitting, perhaps a diaper and a bib.

Funny, I'm not the one crying over everything hun, that would be you.

[reivaxe]

Are you attracted to your hrothgar?!

Seriously though, I think someone can play a character and not be sexually attracted to it. Like thinking something is 'cool'. This is probably the reason "furry" is taken so negatively.

That's why I play my character. I think he looks cool. That's...all there is to it. People can have their uh...preferences for all I care. I just don't care to be associated with something that seriously doesn't apply to me. lol

You can very much like or play a character for any number of reasons. For example, I know not everyone who plays a Roebro is gay or into bara and I know that not everyone who plays Femroe plays them as a futanari, but I do recognize that a number of people do play them for those reasons and there's nothing wrong with that.

That's the beauty of it, you can like what you like for w/e reason, and it's cool. This player base (like most Eastern MMO player bases) is full of thirst, so there's always going to be people who are drawn to something for that reason. It's clear that the devs know this, so I don't really shy away from it.
You don't have to take on the label of "Furry" if you don't want to be associated with that scene, but there are many people who do call themselves furry who simply think "Anthros are cool" and nothing else.

[Ultaniku]

Yeah, no.. they aren't really exotic. If a person wanted to be nice, they could say femroes look weird, but that's the best I could see it!

Just because they don’t have the small frames, rounded races and big eyes of the more popular female races doesn’t make them monsters or weird. You’re entitled to feel that way about them if you want just as I am entitled to find auri female obnoxiously small and UwU cute for no reason. Especially with how drastically different they look to males.

[Lihtleita]

....femroes look closer to irl women than au ra none of this makes sense

[grimgamer09]

....femroes look closer to irl women than au ra none of this makes sense

Femroes look closer to IRL men than Au Ra men. When I want to roleplay as a muscular man that isn't unrealistically muscular, I make a Femroe character.

[reivaxe]

Anyway, given that Yoship made a big show about the wanting this game to last for at least another decade, I do think we will get both female hrothgar and male viera at some point. Possibly after a massive upgrade, as that is something they will absolutely 100% need to do if this game is going to last. He has gone on record several times (as recently as the last month) saying that they are reaching their limits on what they can do and that it impacts their workflow significantly. With the conclusion of 6.0 seeing us moving into a “new adventure”, my money is on the overhaul being then, and with it, the absent genders.

THIS!

This is what I've been trying to bring to people's attention! (But this thread has been troll baited recently and of course we cycle back to feminine vs masculine sub-plot)

I had hope, but I thought Female Hrothgar were a lost cause because I thought that ... this game was in going into "wrap it up" mode. It's easy to forget, but this game is old AF and still carries design debt from it's botched history and limitations from being made with PS3 tech in mind.

So in my mind this was it, the story would wrap up and we were going to get a new FFMMO in the next few years oooooor we get an extreme engine and graphics overhaul because they've been reaching their limits for some time now and at some point it's going to be harder to do things with their outdated methods. That's why when he said he sees this as his life's work and that they're going to do everything they can to make this the best game it can be for the NEXT decade I felt like that means they're going to address this. I also don't think they're going to let people cry about Viera male and Female Hrothgar for a damn decade more.

I'm expecting that massive engine and graphics overhaul sooner than later. FF14 is sitting pretty on the MMO hill but Sega's PSO2 is getting a massive push in the West, and it's super popular in Japan already plus Namco's Blue Protocol is getting hyped so they've got to be seeing that they need to stay competitive on these fronts.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I'm expecting that massive engine and graphics overhaul sooner than later. FF14 is sitting pretty on the MMO hill but Sega's PSO2 is getting a massive push in the West, and it's super popular in Japan already plus Namco's Blue Protocol is getting hyped so they've got to be seeing that they need to stay competitive on these fronts.

You're expecting to much...even with the PS5 coming in and eventually PS4 support will get dropped, there is no way they are gonna overhaul the whole system.
Im not even talking about money here, I mean from a technical standpoint. There is SO much that would have to be worked on that it would just make more sense to make a whole new game with better tech. FF: XIV still looks pretty darn good, could it be improved? OH, OF COURSE.
But a literal overhaul just...doesn't sound likely.

PSO2 has never been localized to the west, so thats part of its popularity that Westerners can finally play it.

[SturmChurro]

THIS!

This is what I've been trying to bring to people's attention! (But this thread has been troll baited recently and of course we cycle back to feminine vs masculine sub-plot)

I had hope, but I thought Female Hrothgar were a lost cause because I thought that ... this game was in going into "wrap it up" mode. It's easy to forget, but this game is old AF and still carries design debt from it's botched history and limitations from being made with PS3 tech in mind.

So in my mind this was it, the story would wrap up and we were going to get a new FFMMO in the next few years oooooor we get an extreme engine and graphics overhaul because they've been reaching their limits for some time now and at some point it's going to be harder to do things with their outdated methods. That's why when he said he sees this as his life's work and that they're going to do everything they can to make this the best game it can be for the NEXT decade I felt like that means they're going to address this. I also don't think they're going to let people cry about Viera male and Female Hrothgar for a damn decade more.

I'm expecting that massive engine and graphics overhaul sooner than later. FF14 is sitting pretty on the MMO hill but Sega's PSO2 is getting a massive push in the West, and it's super popular in Japan already plus Namco's Blue Protocol is getting hyped so they've got to be seeing that they need to stay competitive on these fronts.

I don't know about you, but this thread has been HILARIOUS recently. I haven't laughed this much for a while now.

See, I always thought this game would last for awhile, rather than "wrap up" mode. Making a new MMO is very expensive, and this one is already very profitable, fairly popular and competitors like WoW are still going. I always hoped, and saw this game going forward for many years yet. Despite the negativity. This game will definitely need some huge overhauls though if they expect to go that full 10 years. Like some serious overhauls. They never ruled out male viera or female hrothgar, if they can do it, I expect they will probably do it.

Sooner than later though, now I don't know about that one..