Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[MikkoAkure]

The situation is further complicated by the lack of a strong presence from our community representatives. They're supposed to be gathering and sending feedback - and they may very well be doing that - but it's hard to say for sure due to how quiet they are.

Considering the vitriol spat out towards the devs in this thread and the fact that the first page (depending on your forum settings at least) has someone accusing them of being homophobes, it's no surprise they're avoiding this one. Yoshi P has already said that male viera aren't going to happen based on the current state of the game and development, and that was pre-covid.

If there's no change and no development at all towards this, then what would they have to say? What are you expecting to hear back?

The general feedback from this thread is that we want it. Yoshi P acknowledged it in a blog post and several interviews but they don't really owe us a status update saying the same thing every 3 months.

The ambiguous limbo that the HW concept art left things in also didn't help. Even if they were discarded in favour of Au Ra, it is logical to surmise from those that they at least had a notion of how they'd implement male Viera. Overall, things weren't addressed in a very transparent manner from the outset, but they've at least come clean since then about what is, apparently, the actual rationale and roadblock to their near-future implementation.

What is ambiguous about the HW concept art? The top of the page says: "au ra concepts - the viera". They have already stated that it was based on the forum poll during 1.0(?) asking about new races and viera were an option, among other things. Then it goes on to "au ra concepts - beastly" and it shows the very first art of lupin, who the devs also said were originally an au ra candidate. But until ShB, the viera didn't get passed the concept art stage. Just because they exist in art doesn't mean much. There's art for a lot of things in the art books that never made it into the game. I don't know what part of this is confusing.