I personally will be changing to male viera one day because I've been waiting for any Final Fantasy game to show us what they look like.
I've always had the suspicion that the dev team was gonna do the missing genders. It didn't sit right with me at first because they originally undid the ones for miqo, roe and highlander.
Then I saw someone post that they were going to use them as a selling point. It makes sense. They didn't have time or resources to both races with both genders (being unfinished is an entirely different issue), so they on the sly said that these were probably the last races added but nothing on the genders missing. So they reveal it along with the promise that female Hrothgar will come some time later.
They were never not going to release them, they just didn't have time during Shadowbringers and didn't want to make a promise if they couldn't come through. With Endwalker coming, they knew it was the right time to implement them despite covid eating their dev time. While not everyone will be going male viera, nearly all of my friends list will be. And plenty of others will too just like when female viera came out. It's insanely popular and SE wants those fantasia sales.
While it probably ate some glamour dev time, it was worth it. They look really good and while they likely have the same hat/hair limitations, I'm patient and can wait for them to add those things later. I personally am impressed how they turned out.
Also people wanted to know what male viera would look like and FFXIV having female viera, it was the right moment to showcase them. Mind you that we've never seen male viera ever in any of the Ivalice games, only text. This is bigger in the sense that the dev team managed this.
Long short short, it was worth it and I will always push for SE putting more emphasis on more customization.
I am already considering rolling one to make a Reaper.
Even though this is a semi troll thread, I kind of agree. When the video started with a Viera putting their gear on I thought they were announcing they’d fixed hats and helmets. Instead it’s just another limited race.
I’d rather they fixed what’s in the game already before adding extra restricted stuff.
We got our first casualty, All Saint's Wake.
Quit making stupid guitars and watches and make more content.
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