Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
I'm not against their inclusion and I can see both sides of the argument, but pre-imperial invasion it's like seeing a male member of an uncontacted native Amazon tribe walking around in Kyoto...
I mean, the lore was created that way to justify the fact that MViera are not seen in previous games and in ShB, since the race itself was basically created to pander to the prevalent horny male teenager audience. It's not like it's a fundamental and unchangeable state of the world. All it takes is an additional piece of lore that says "look, their homeland is in danger so they decided to venture out". Even without that, "mommy crystal called the MViera and he decided to leave his bros in the woods" would be a more than acceptable explanation given the circumstances and the fact that our character is a singularity. And to be honest, it's pretty weird that MViera are nowhere to be seen in two different worlds with two different catastrophes coming their way because they're oh so precious. Really doesn't make any sense, especially when you see beast tribes working with playable races on the First. FHrogh too of course. It was clearly due to resource constraints and they came up with a lore excuse so their white knights could do the rest of the work for them.

Either way, I feel vindicated, I remember having a few arguments when FViera was announced and I pointed out that not having MViera and FHroth was just stupid, the lore argument was weak and they'd eventually add them because the community would ask for it. Let's just say that I now agree with those people that say that many ffxiv players look more like zealots than actual consumers.