VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Kolsykol]

I really can't think of an example where that meme even applies, I've seen people use it and then compare Female Viera to Male Hrothgar which makes no sense to anyone who actually plays the game and understands how stupid that is.
Whenever I see people bring it up they either don't play the game and are comparing two separate races or they're just mad because breasts exist.

My guess is that Female Hrothgar will simply be Male Hrothgar but slimmer.
That's how it is for every other race I fail to see why it would be any different.
If you want Female Hrothgar to actually read as Female to us as human beings then you've gotta use shape to do that which means that yes they will most likely be slimmer and have breasts ( Male Hrothgar are basically hairy human guys ).
I don't expect the face to be so fundamentally different than Male Hrothgar either.

Yukiko's example isn't from FFXIV and I doubt the Male equivelant if they exist in whatever game they're from actually looks different.
Something tells me they don't look like Male Hrothgar and that they look more similar to those Female whatever race they are.

Agreed, I really am hoping for a more beast-like appearance for Female Hrothgar. We have too many stereotypically attractive races and considering this is the last piece of the puzzle to be implemented, they should be just as intimidating-looking as the male Hrothgar. This is a difficult topic, because majority of the FFXIV community tend to gravitate towards attractive looking characters, so it's hard to say if SE will just cater to those people.

Ultimately I can't judge them for appealing to what most people want to see, but I personally have no real opinion on it either way.
If they're big like the Male Hrothgar then I won't play them but if they look more like in Yukiko's example ( but yes with a cat face ) then I'd actually be really interested.
Either way tho no matter what they do I am sure some people will be mad and complain about it and rant about how '' nobody wanted this '' lol.

[Akimori]

I really can't think of an example where that meme even applies, I've seen people use it and then compare Female Viera to Male Hrothgar which makes no sense to anyone who actually plays the game and understands how stupid that is.
Whenever I see people bring it up they either don't play the game and are comparing two separate races or they're just mad because breasts exist.

My guess is that Female Hrothgar will simply be Male Hrothgar but slimmer.
That's how it is for every other race I fail to see why it would be any different.
If you want Female Hrothgar to actually read as Female to us as human beings then you've gotta use shape to do that which means that yes they will most likely be slimmer and have breasts ( Male Hrothgar are basically hairy human guys ).
I don't expect the face to be so fundamentally different than Male Hrothgar either.

Yukiko's example isn't from FFXIV and I doubt the Male equivelant if they exist in whatever game they're from actually looks different.
Something tells me they don't look like Male Hrothgar and that they look more similar to those Female whatever race they are.



Ultimately I can't judge them for appealing to what most people want to see, but I personally have no real opinion on it either way.
If they're big like the Male Hrothgar then I won't play them but if they look more like in Yukiko's example ( but yes with a cat face ) then I'd actually be really interested.
Either way tho no matter what they do I am sure some people will be mad and complain about it and rant about how '' nobody wanted this '' lol.

Im having a bit of trouble understanding your post. People are mentioning that they're worried about the faces, but you bring up the Body. Its expected that they're going to have breasts and curves because they *ARE* females after all (Excluding female charr who are almost 1:1 replicas of their male counterparts, but Anet was still actually able to physically define them as female). What they're worried about is making hrothgals have more human like faces like the pantera in whatever game that is vs having actual cat/lion/tiger/whatever faces like their male counterparts

Giving them a cat nose and a ":3" is not what makes a cat's face. The defining trait of any animal really is their Muzzle/snout