Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[KizuyaKatogami]

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



Hrothgar being put into the game didnt cost it anything; in context to "Thanks to Hrothgar, we dont have this now"
Just because its the least played still doesn't mean it was a waste of time.

In regards to Male Viera, theres a big difference. Male Viera have never been shown in the series before, it would be a big feature for the series as a whole. As for Hrothgar not costing anything, i’d argue that’s a flat out lie. The time put towards them could’ve been time put towards customization options for all races. Or put towards viera having new hairstyles or being able to wear headgear. I have nothing against Hrothgar but i don’t support overlooking facts for bias.

[RyuDragnier]

In regards to Male Viera, theres a big difference. Male Viera have never been shown in the series before, it would be a big feature for the series as a whole. As for Hrothgar not costing anything, i’d argue that’s a flat out lie. The time put towards them could’ve been time put towards customization options for all races. Or put towards viera having new hairstyles or being able to wear headgear. I have nothing against Hrothgar but i don’t support overlooking facts for bias.

One could make the counterargument that Viera did not need to exist because they're tall people with animal ears that live in the forest. Meaning they're essentially Bunny brand Miqote Elezen. Nothing we didn't already have, compared to Hrothgar which is our first actual full beast race. So please, do not start this nonsense.

[Yencat]

The time put towards them could’ve been time put towards customization options for all races. Or put towards viera having new hairstyles or being able to wear headgear. I have nothing against Hrothgar but i don’t support overlooking facts for bias.

That is assuming they would have even done any of those things if they hadn't done Hrothgar though, that is not a fact.

As far back as 2013 Yoshida said that if they ever did Viera they'd probably do a different male only race as a counterpart and that's exactly what they ended up doing, for all we know Female Hrothgar and male Viera may have never been seriously considered beyond a concept art stage.

I get that people are disappointed but I really dislike this discourse around Hrothgar that if only they hadn't chosen to include them they could've/would've done <XYZ>. We don't know that at all, Stormblood added no new playable races and still did precisely nothing to further the customization of the other races.