Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Theodric]

It's also worth noting that when it comes to 'weirder' playable races a lot of the appeal resides within the story behind them. I'm not one to beat around the bush, so I won't - I think MMO's such as ESO and WoW do a much better job at making their selection playable races feel as though they're an actual part of the game world. Usually because there's a decent amount of NPC's scattered about for each playable race and they each have their own unique zones and architecture that players can visit and immerse themselves in.

Whereas multiple playable races within FFXIV have barely a few sentences of introductory lore behind them and you see so little of it manifest within the game itself. I have my doubts that we'll see many Hrothgar women or Viera men as NPC's. Which, again, will probably dampen the appeal of both.

Though it isn't unique to either of them as a problem. Xaela got lucky in terms of having a zone devoted entirely to themselves, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

[SturmChurro]

It's also worth noting that when it comes to 'weirder' playable races a lot of the appeal resides within the story behind them. I'm not one to beat around the bush, so I won't - I think MMO's such as ESO and WoW do a much better job at making their selection playable races feel as though they're an actual part of the game world. Usually because there's a decent amount of NPC's scattered about for each playable race and they each have their own unique zones and architecture that players can visit and immerse themselves in.

Whereas multiple playable races within FFXIV have barely a few sentences of introductory lore behind them and you see so little of it manifest within the game itself. I have my doubts that we'll see many Hrothgar women or Viera men as NPC's. Which, again, will probably dampen the appeal of both.

Though it isn't unique to either of them as a problem. Xaela got lucky in terms of having a zone devoted entirely to themselves, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Yeah, but ESO has the benefit of decades of Elder Scrolls lore to work with. Each and every playable race featured has tons and tons of it, not to mention games set in the same universe, or world. As far as I am aware, and I am no warcraft fan, but WoW similarly also benefits from this. Lore books, and prior games (Warcraft). Do WoW's allied races receive the same level of detail? With FFXIV, it's probably a side effect of every FF game being set in a different universe, if I recall. Not to mention, the game being set in primarily Eorzea, where groups are really 'Eorzean' first, and race isn't really taken into account. Outside of Ishgard, I suppose.

For that matter, it would make a decent amount more sense if it was actually female hrothgar that was added instead of both female viera AND male viera. The Bozja storyline would have been much more interesting if the Bozjan queen was actually a hrothgar, and female hrothgars actually played a prominent role in the liberation of their homeland.