Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Coombah]

Just checking in again and happy to see the thread is still active. I support both additions of Male Viera playable character & Female Hroth.

[Lauront]

Yoshi-P already addressed this years ago and said that the level of effort to go back and fix everything wouldn't be worth the result. He said that at that point, they might as well make a new game. Even if Yoshi-P wanted to overhaul the code, it's SE that would make the call and provide him the budget and other resources in order to make that a reality and I don't think that's ever going to happen. I don't believe there is a reason for SE to think that would make sense and lead to them getting more paying customers or higher retention rates that could cover all of the costs required for this.

Also, I think the state of viera and hrothgar is due to rushing, compromising, and believing that the players would accept their decisions for having 1 gender per race and no hats. It doesn't make sense for them to have any secret objective.

What he said then and what is the situation now can change. They intend for the game to last quite some time, so I think Melichoir is right about what they say and more than that, they've indicated they're actively looking into it here.

[Timbued]

I Won't lie, i only started playing the year that shadowbringers came out and was grinding like mad to be ready for it's release but i was still bummed when the Bunnies where gender locked, it was pretty funny i was praising this mmo to the moons for not gender locking races (i was told during praising FFXIV that miqote use to be female only too) and then when i was super excited to play as a bunny boy this slapped me in the face, It wasn't the end of the world mind you, i just played as a Female Bun-Bun for about 3 months before switching and giving Hyur a go and then back to Mi'qo I'm still crossing my fingers for the day that Male Viera comes out but it won't stop me playing the game if it never happens... although i'll always be going "Wheres my bun bun" *Sadface* xD

To be honest i would be down for the Male Viera to be shorter than the Females, i like the idea of being reverse to Au'Ra, which was another weird little nitpick for me xD if Au'Ra Males could be shorter and have the cute lil horns the females had maybe i would of played as those up to Vieras Release but that's a different little blah blah for me to go on about

If they came out during Endwalker or even later on in the games lifespan i will 100% be buying a Fantasia and swapping over permanently but for now i will just have to be a weird kitty boy who's ears look like a Filling-less Wrap :') hehe

[Theodric]

I'd prefer male viera to be equally as tall as their female counterparts or a little taller. A height slider could allow for them to be shorter than the women if need be as a compromise, but I'd rather not see them designed that way as a default stance.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I'd prefer male viera to be equally as tall as their female counterparts or a little taller. A height slider could allow for them to be shorter than the women if need be as a compromise, but I'd rather not see them designed that way as a default stance.

Agreed. We don’t need more inverse races, not to mention it wouldn’t make sense lore wise anyways.

[EtherRose]

I was hoping they would add Feol Viera as another clan just like the other races have 2 separate clans. Example being Moon Miqo'te and Seekers of the Sun. Anyways, if they do continue to add new races hopefully it's not like this again. And if they do they might as well go ahead and complete the beast trio. We have Bunny, Cat and now we just need Fox/Wolf. Lupin being that.

[Theodric]

Hrothgar are among the least played race/gender combinations present in the game at the moment. I don't see that changing drastically anytime soon. Especially since many of those pushing for them to be added do so not because they want to play one themselves but because they've convinced themselves that it'd be 'interesting' to see them as a playable race. Even Yoshi-P is guilty of that. He really wanted to see a beast race made playable, yet he plays a female lalafell.

I'd sooner see enhanced character customisation for the playable races we have already, but if they do add another in the future...then hopefully it'll be something conventionally attractive as to be worth the extra work it'll take to make emotes, mounts and glamour fit.

[Yencat]

I was hoping they would add Feol Viera as another clan just like the other races have 2 separate clans. Example being Moon Miqo'te and Seekers of the Sun. Anyways, if they do continue to add new races hopefully it's not like this again. And if they do they might as well go ahead and complete the beast trio. We have Bunny, Cat and now we just need Fox/Wolf. Lupin being that.

They pretty much did with the Veena, Feol were never shorter than Viera, just more pale with shorter ears.

But the Feol are also extinct and were all sisters from the same mother and father, leaving 0 room to ever add males. (barring a retcon, of course.)

Some of the pre-generated Veena names are even Feol names and locations from Revenant Wings so SE probably figures they're close enough as well.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Hrothgar are among the least played race/gender combinations present in the game at the moment. I don't see that changing drastically anytime soon. Especially since many of those pushing for them to be added do so not because they want to play one themselves but because they've convinced themselves that it'd be 'interesting' to see them as a playable race. Even Yoshi-P is guilty of that. He really wanted to see a beast race made playable, yet he plays a female lalafell.

I'd sooner see enhanced character customisation for the playable races we have already, but if they do add another in the future...then hopefully it'll be something conventionally attractive as to be worth the extra work it'll take to make emotes, mounts and glamour fit.

Just because they aren't super popular and bloody everywhere doesn't mean that people dont want them or like them. YoshiP not suddenly switching his Main to a Hrothgar does not reflect anything about his stance on Hrothgar. We needed something like the Hrothgar for Variety, we got them for Variety. If you haven't noticed, every option till now has been...basically a Human. We got Traditional Elves, then Some humans with Cat ears and tails, some with Horns and Scales, and then the Viera; just Humans with weird feet (If you keep the racial Gear) and Bunny Ears. Not a whole lot of Variety.
Even Guild Wars had something like the Asura, a Non-human Option, and then the Sylvari, who look like humans, but are Tree People with Customization option to reflect it such as Leaves for Hair.

I dont know how it is over there on Cerberus, but over here on Adamantoise we have quite alot of Hrothgar players, and I see quite alot of them in Dungeons and Trials when I play the game.
If we do get more races, I hope they push for bringing in other popular races, I hope to See the Bangaa. Another Short option like the Ivalician Moogles. Update and give us the Lupin, just to name a few.
We dont need another conventionally attractive race. Literally, just if they can, they should just make more customization options for the Previous Humanoid Races.

As long as there is a fanbase for it, its not a waste of time. A small Community, is still a community worth catering to. And that community is still more money.

[Awha]

Honestly I do hope they do an engine swap. Since they were talking about it before.