Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Iscah]

By the same pattern we'd get both on 6.0, but then covid happened. So they're trying to compromise by releasing one first and the other a bit later. If femhroth is released in 6.x then it's technically still in the same expansion as its pair, the male viera.

3+2=5; 5+2=7

That's the pattern I'm seeing.

New races added in 3.0 and 5.0 indicate (based on an admittedly small set of data) that the next pair would be due in 7.0, but here we are getting one "early" and it's being delivered in 6.0, outside of the expected pattern.

I don't think it would be on 7.0 because, like other have mentioned in this thread, they would save the announcement that femhroth is coming much later closer to 7.0.
But then they did mentioned that it's coming on the last fanfest which means it most likely would be somewhere during EW.

I don't think it's guaranteed to be during Endwalker just because the existence of female Hrothgar was assured alongside the Viera reveal.

Even if they aren't coming until 7.0, I think the dev team have learned their lesson to not be coy about the fact that they are definitely coming at some point.

[Fland]

I don't think it's guaranteed to be during Endwalker just because the existence of female Hrothgar was assured alongside the Viera reveal.

Even if they aren't coming until 7.0, I think the dev team have learned their lesson to not be coy about the fact that they are definitely coming at some point.

AFAIR they never announce something is coming on fanfest keynote for a later expansion. There might things that they gave vague answer about like "I'll talk to the team" or "We'll see the player's response" during live letters, but not in this case.
It's not a 100% guaranteed of course, but I'd say the chance femhroth is coming sometimes during EW is higher than in 7.0.

they even mentioned they thought about releasing them together (holding male viera off), but then decided to implement them 1 by 1. as iscah already stated, fem hroth didn‘t get „delayed“, we just got male viera earlier.

That's not what I got from what he said tho. We didn't get male viera earlier, having it on 6.0 is their plan. They just couldn't get femhroth finished to be released together with male viera in 6.0. So yes, in this case femhroth is the one that is "delayed".

[Iscah]

AFAIR they never announce something is coming on fanfest keynote for a later expansion. There might things that they gave vague answer about like "I'll talk to the team" or "We'll see the player's response" during live letters, but not in this case.

This is a very irregular situation though. It's different to confirming a rumour about something that is purely speculative but has no reason to be confirmed.

By announcing male Viera they were left with two choices: let the fanbase spend another goodness-knows-how-long asking for female Hrothgar and/or debating their existence (with the inevitable subset either indignant or acting superior that only Viera were deemed worth completing), or short-circuit the whole lot of rage over nothing by assuring people that they will be coming at some point, regardless of when that point is.

Also it wasn't really an announcement in the usual way of showing something off, just an acknowledgement that this known thing will indeed be coming.