Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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It is most likely gonna be released around September following old expansion trends.
Also wonder when they will start releasing small teasers and pics on social media like they did with shadowbringers?

Benchmark normally was coming out 1,5 month prior the expansion release, which means that we will get one in October if they are to follow their old schedule.

Teasers arts usually were started being dropped 2 weeks before expansion release, if that's what you're wondering about.

5 years is a long time without interactions, just saying.
not to mention that they're separated by tribes too
having a common belief/goal does not equal a society

You percieve 5 years as being long because our average life lasts for 70 years combined with the fact we live in a capitalistic societies that teach us that "time is money" so we end up always rushing. It's not the same for Viera who, first, live at least 3 times longer and, second, don't have the same society structure as ours. And in case if FF14's forest talks to them the same way FF12's one did, then the time apart would mean even less for them as they can know their kin wellbeing without the need to see them in person.

That said, percieving Viera's culture from the perspective of ours won't work, because it simply doesn't fit in it (and isn't supposed to fit).