Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
There will always be players who stick to a race even with the limitations, but there will also be a loud portion who will switch off (or not) and join female viera players here.

I always advocated for male viera inclusion, but I thought SE would actually do it right the second time around.. Now we are just getting more of the same. Maybe female hrothgar will be different, and their two hairs per face won't require a fantasia to switch to..

Oh, it's going to be that, and also being told by future male viera players: "Hey, at least you had female viera!"

I'll probably switch back to my veena anyway. I have yet to do the story, and with new story coming out on the 25th I'd rather be my canon character. I was really, really hoping to be excited about something for viera yesterday..
When the race is new it's not as glaring because you're getting a new model with <X> amount of actually new hairstyles you haven't seen before, I remember thinking when Viera came out "Hey this is alright, I like the hairstyles they do have and I can wait until they add the rest they said they would add". That turned out to be a longer wait than expected so now it's getting pretty stale.

Even if they by some miracle end up 'doing it right' the second time around I have 0 interest in playing a male Viera so it wouldn't help me anything, I imagine it's the same for people that want to play male Hrothgar if they release female Hrothgar without the Fantasia requirement. Great for them, not so much for the rest of us.

Overall some cool stuff was announced, but not on the front I was hoping for so I'm right there with you.