I don’t understand how there’s not only a decent amount of people who think that female Hrothgar shouldn’t be made since resources or some other double standard, but how they also think it’s fair that people who prefer playing as male characters should have more race options that those who prefer playing as female characters.

If you introduce male Viera, you should also have plans for female Hrothgar, or you’re being unbalanced; it’s really that simple. It is a good thing that developers are working on adding female Hrothgar to the game now, but the community should have been surveyed long ago in design stages about whether people would be okay with the idea of gender-locked races before the decision was made to go ahead with what would ultimately be an unpopular design limitation. Players also weren’t surveyed about whether they’d be okay with newer Hrothgar hairstyles having mutilated ears before time was spent working on inferior hair options, and you can see how well that turned out.

Some people also said earlier that this happened because Square Enix originally didn’t have plans to have two gender options to the two races, which… yes? What about it? That’s not providing new information. They shouldn’t have had any arbitrarily gender-locked mechanics in the first place, whether it be with races or clothes, and if the work is only partially complete like the currently limited headgear options for both races, then either hire more developers or don’t release things in an incomplete state.