Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[SherlottaEryut]

It’s weird that Square Enix didn’t just do both male and female Viera for Shadowbringers, and then male and female Hrothgar for Endwalker, or vice versa

Gender counterparts were never on the table for female Viera and male Hrothgar, that's why they didn't do it this way. Female Viera, made sense considering in all of the ivalice games the male Viera have never been seen, but only spoken of. They only implemented male Hrothgar because... Well, other than the developers wanted them, I assume they just wanted to release a gender counterpart of some other sort and leave them as a 'pair' if you will.

It's only because people started calling SE homophobic, sexist and all sorts that they caved in to the community outcry. There were even articles of it... No business wants to be marked as that.

Overall, I'm quite surprised people are still asking about Female Hrothgar, considering this could result in an even slower process of updating male Hrothgar. I found this quote which I never thought of before, but this pretty much hints where a lot of their resources are going. It would also make sense why female Viera and male Hrothgar were ignored for 3 years, because majority of their design team were focused on male Viera? Just my guess.
"I’m sure you all understand that a new race will require new faces, emotes, hairstyles, bodies, and other assets. In addition to this, they need to be capable of equipping all existing items—this alone requires a massive commitment of resources. Each race has a unique frame and body type, and so every piece of visible equipment needs to be carefully adjusted to display properly on Hrothgar and Viera models."

[FawkesWyznfarr]

SE wasn't so much as homophobic (lol) as they were viewed as lazy when they revealed malehroth and female buns. The devs are also hacks who'd rather spend more resources on "ancillary" systems like adventure plates than updating the engine. And I'm not talking about a graphic overhaul I mean taking apart the engine piece by piece and untangling all that goddamn rotten 1.0 spahgetti.

[HisShadowX]

More choices the better sadly I do not think the developers like the Ronso so much. Just look at the scary Karen hair styles they gave you all

[FawkesWyznfarr]

That hrothgar with the 2B hair was so bad people thought it was an April Fool's joke.

[Iyrnthota]

SE wasn't so much as homophobic (lol) as they were viewed as lazy when they revealed malehroth and female buns. The devs are also hacks who'd rather spend more resources on "ancillary" systems like adventure plates than updating the engine. And I'm not talking about a graphic overhaul I mean taking apart the engine piece by piece and untangling all that goddamn rotten 1.0 spahgetti.

Tech debt is no joke, and I bet this game has a metric ton of debt given the mess that was 1.0 and the rush job that was 2.0.
I suspect they don't want to fix it cause looking at this game's source code is like looking at an eldrich horror.

I would bet that any review of the code would conclude that starting from scratch would be a cheaper and more time efficient plan.

[Allegor]

The devs were definitely called homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc etc. People were absolutely rabbit () about it for a few months.

[Midareyukki]

The devs were definitely called homophobic, transphobic, sexist, etc etc. People were absolutely rabbit () about it for a few months.

They were. People on Reddit and Discord even had to tell those people to calm down. People just up and assumed that the exclusion of gender counterparts, particularly Male Viera, meant that the dev team didn't care about gay people and that the gender locking was trans-exclusive.

[Allegor]

They were. People on Reddit and Discord even had to tell those people to calm down. People just up and assumed that the exclusion of gender counterparts, particularly Male Viera, meant that the dev team didn't care about gay people and that the gender locking was trans-exclusive.

And simultaneously absolute, seething hatred toward Hrothgars and anyone who even dared mentioning they liked the idea of a furry/beast race. A lot of the flame calmed down after Yoshi P had to come forth and outright say 'no' to boyish looking Viera though, but it was....a glorious dumpster fire, to put it bluntly.

[LisSquid]

And simultaneously absolute, seething hatred toward Hrothgars and anyone who even dared mentioning they liked the idea of a furry/beast race. A lot of the flame calmed down after Yoshi P had to come forth and outright say 'no' to boyish looking Viera though, but it was....a glorious dumpster fire, to put it bluntly.

I won't try to pretend I wasn't resentful over the male viera situation (no female hrothgar always hit me as more of an issue as we have actually seen female ronso). Won't pretend I didn't stoke the flames. People who went off about how you're either a bigot or a sexual predator for being on either side of the #Ideal male viera debate were wild, though.

[FawkesWyznfarr]

They were. People on Reddit and Discord even had to tell those people to calm down. People just up and assumed that the exclusion of gender counterparts, particularly Male Viera, meant that the dev team didn't care about gay people and that the gender locking was trans-exclusive.

Lol. Probably the same kind of people who lose their mind once a gender locked outfit becomes available to all genders.