Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Halivel]

Yeah it sucks for some players haha but i'm not against gender locked races. I was fine with just female viera tbh.

Because of the Mithra right ? I wasn't there when catboys didn't exist but i think i could have just created a Hyur even if it's a bit boring. If i'm going to ffXI i'm playing Hume and nothing else if i want a male haha.

Miqo'te (female only), Roegadyns (male only) and Highlanders (male only) used to be genderlocked in 1.0, so in FF14 already. They were released as complete races in 2.0 due to community feedback.

Ironically enough, just like with Viera and Hrothgar, there was the very same gang of people "but muh lore", "we don't need eye candy", "they better spend resources on something more useful" and all the other arguments against "missing genders" release that were said during last two years about possible Male Viera and Female Hrothgars. History pretty much repeated itself. The only difference is that community is far bigger now, so this time the outcry was also far louder.

[Juzjuzz]

Miqo'te (female only), Roegadyns (male only) and Highlanders (male only) used to be genderlocked in 1.0, so in FF14 already. They were released as complete races in 2.0 due to community feedback.

Ironically enough, just like with Viera and Hrothgar, there was the very same gang of people "but muh lore", "we don't need eye candy", "they better spend resources on something more useful" and all the other arguments against "missing genders" release that were said during last two years about possible Male Viera and Female Hrothgars. History pretty much repeated itself. The only difference is that community is far bigger now, so this time the outcry was also far louder.

True but i still think genderlocking for lore is fine as long a the race is created to live like that. If it's just "the other gender is there but they are just rare/hidden/somewere else", ppl will ask for it. Ofc making too mutch genderlocked races is a bad idea and i think it's better if you guive them a look that will pleace a specific niche if you want them to be rare.

But the best option is to stop with the rarity/genderlocking of playable races in the lore. You can do that with beast races aniway. Otherwise you have to know how the players will react to it.