Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Lauront]

Also of note, Yoshi-P outright stated that Hrothgar was the race they WANTED to make (yes, this stings as a Viera supporter, but what're you gonna do?) so the whole "wouldn't be popular" thing is kind of moot. The devs will make the races they WANT to make, HOW they want them.

Also, funny how Viera has been described as "Elezen done right" while it's been joked/stated that Hrothgar decimated the Male Roe population. Those are both in the "least popular gender/race combo" list and even then, Hroth surpasses Roegabros. Little more fuel to the "devs will design as they please" thing.

To me it is rather clear why they overtook Roebros - they are competing in a very similar body type niche, and they look better than the existing option. However, the point about them making more money out of it is the one I am putting into question. It doesn't necessarily follow that they will and we don't even know if they have when their considerable costs are factored in. This goes for female Viera too but their figures were considerably better at 12% and then 8-9% of the playerbase. People can speculate as to whether or not they did, but without any figures on the matter, we don't know, and as a simple matter of logic, it isn't always going to be the case.

I've no problem with them making what they want to make (even though I think in part it's motivated by what they thought appealed to potential WoW refugees), but I personally don't consider variety to be intrinsically good, i.e. being 'different' in and of itself isn't necessarily good. The race has to have other appealing characteristics to me beyond just being different. I wasn't too keen on their departure from Ronso and how they implemented them. I don't really mind if, in the future, they introduce Ivalician moogles (which I'd have preferred to Lalas in all honesty), Banga, Seeq, Burmecians, even Aegyl (although some would say they're too human-like), provided we see the existing races receive an overhaul to their customisation options and textures, but that would all be in the context of an improved engine that would reduce the costs of doing so.

..............Then what is the Point of Viera, much less Male Viera being put into the game, and why are they requested?
...If not...Variety?..

I thought you already dismissed those as humans with bunny ears and weird feet?

So...not like it was ever a secret, but way to just show you have an outright bias against beast races mate.
You do you and all that jazz but....lol man.

Not sure what the last part is all about... people don't have to like them.