Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Alacran]

People asked for Viera, the expectation was that ment to make both male & female. This was after the precedent of correcting the genderlocks of 1.0 female Roegadyn, male Miqo' te & female Highlander.

No one asked for a second cat race. Even those that wanted bestial races wanted something more than a limited race.

Why are there no warnings against picking Hrothgar limiting one from game features like the use of the in game Aesthetician & limited use of items bought from the cash shop? Those items that cost real world money should be given priority at very least when considering the race it's self needs a fantasia to even change hair options to one of the other 3...

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

This thread is hyper focused on gender because it’s a thread about male viera, specifically.

Also my comment was more aimed at the transition from 1.0 to ARR. not from XI. If it wasn’t a big issue, then I don’t see why they devoted so much time to it. Yoship has mentioned over and over what a pain it is to do, and more recently said it’s not particularly enjoyable either. So it’s not like it was a passion project. It may not have been an issue to the playerbase that stuck around, but lack of variety probably wasn’t scoring them any brownie points with newer players. It was detrimental enough, they felt, to really focus on fixing.

And so it’s probably worth fixing again, at some point in the future.

Fair enough point, but my point is that whenever people bring up 1.0, they always specifically point at "missing Genders" for being why the game didnt do well, which is a small reason for the game to fail. There were more important factors.
I might have not been clear on some level, but yes, I was talking about 1.0. (I might have flubbed)

Because gender is a major part of character creation. This thread is literally about male viera lmao. I’m a guy, i like playing guys l, not a female. If there’s a race i really like but end up finding out it’s genderlocked, and i don’t like any of the other races it may put me off of a game because i like to immerse myself in the game. I’m not going to play something i don’t like. And typically when there are things like genderlocks, there are a lot of other problems with the game as well so they go hand in hand.

I know dude, just like I told the other person; my point is that whenever people bring up 1.0, they always specifically point at "missing Genders"
And lets not forget, as much as people hate hearing it....its not like we ever saw a Male Viera beforehand. So it is interesting for people to think that was going to change in an MMO; when their own games we have yet to see a Male Viera.
Not saying its the reason; most if not all of us by now should know why the races are "Gender Locked"
(inb4 somebody is going to bring up the old HW concept art)

[RyuDragnier]

No one asked for a second cat race. Even those that wanted bestial races wanted something more than a limited race.

But yet people asked for Viera, which has never in its 14 years of existing shown a male. The irony here is intense.