Missing Genders: A request for Male Miqote, Female Highlander, and Female Roegadyn

[Kallera]

Well, I'm sure they arre firing on as many cylinders as they can, though I'm sure teams can also be on multiple game projects, or are gaming departments not set up that way?

[Cairdeas]

I have to admit I jumped on a bandwagon...

[Kam]

Greetings everyone!

We can definitely see the enthusiasm being shown in this topic, and it's not something we're overlooking! We are currently discussing with the development team now and will report back once we receive a response.

I died a little on the inside. Good luck down this road you have taken SE. You were a once a quality company. (edit* actually Squaresoft was the only decent part)

[Kallera]

I died a little on the inside. Good luck down this road you have taken SE. You were a once a quality company. (edit* actually Squaresoft was the only decent part)

A company addresses the questions and concerns of their customers, and you "Die a little inside?"

Not the best business sense, this one...

[Kam]

The OP begins with unimplimented races in FFXI, when did the players have to dictate that to the devs? Its because this game is failing they are listening to anything spouted by a few individuals. Sorry, but 2 new races will not save this game. All this thread seems to be about is passifying the current player-base. BASED soley on in-game lore. Which is why its retarded.

Yes im spelling it out for you.

And if they spend any time on this - what so ever - I feel they have sunk to an abosolute low - No self respect, they are THAT desperate to keep you for when payments come around.


Ps* actual LOLz were had.

[Nuru]

The OP begins with unimplimented races in FFXI, when did the players have to dictate that to the devs? Its because this game is failing they are listening to anything spouted by a few individuals. Sorry, but 2 new races will not save this game. All this thread seems to be about is passifying the current player-base. BASED soley on in-game lore. Which is why its retarded.

Yes im spelling it out for you.

And if they spend any time on this - what so ever - I feel they have sunk to an abosolute low - No self respect, they are THAT desperate to keep you for when payments come around.


Ps* actual LOLz were had.

And how implementing these races and genders really matters to you? Maybe you already have the character you wanted, but there are others who really want to play a game where they can create that character they want to be without having to pretend they are a different gender.

I'll be honest, I hate the idea of there existing male players as Miqo'te females, but what other options are there?

There is a whole stereotype about mancats, but really, there are no options to actually play a male cat. So now they either have to make male characters or be treated like a "mancat."

Pretty much what I am saying is that, the gender locking isn't really a great idea after they have already done that in FFXI. They could at least change the races in FFXIV as much as adding Genders to races just to make a bit of difference.

[Cairdeas]

Kam, my comments about XI were misinterpreted.

When they first announced Galka and Mithra they only showed the singular genders and never explained the correlation of why those races were mono-gendered racial choices in game. They just said "You can pick Male Galka or Female Mithra" they never said anything about the lore. Especially in the english press. which at the time was the only place you could get any information about XI. The internet was pretty barren and the only sites that had information were mostly in japanese.

I had started a bit of a request to see pictures of the other genders and know if they were going to be implemented. The response we all got was in the form of an eventual release into English of the lore breakdown for those races. After that I never asked again and played quietly with the idea stuck in the back of my head that "Heck, I'd probably prefer playing as a female Galka. but because of the lore it'll never happen" so I shut up and accepted it.

FFXIV finally debuts at E3 2009 and lo and behold Theres a Mithra, and a Galka displayed... Its announced the races from XI will be returning with major changes to each so that players will be comfortable recreating their old characters if they have too. So again, I asked "Will Female Galka and Male Mithra be playable." Eventually we got the response from see that they were new races, their names were Miqote and Roegadyn. Then... we got lore. The lore stated that the genders that were previously ultra-rare or non-existant in XI did indeed exist in normal capacity in XIV. So Even more so, we began asking to see them, asking if they were working on them and the answer we got was "The Designs are done, but we haven't had time to implement them, but maybe later."

All this thread is asking. is "Is there still a chance to implement them, And when." its not asking for them right now.

Ultimately Kam, you sound more and more like someone who just doesn't want people to be happy. Instead you want your viewpoint to be the only valid one and you do not want change. Well some of us do. I support the change especially now that the lore is established to allow for it.

[Kam]

And how implementing these races and genders really matters to you? Maybe you already have the character you wanted, but there are others who really want to play a game where they can create that character they want to be without having to pretend they are a different gender.

I'll be honest, I hate the idea of there existing male players as Miqo'te females, but what other options are there?

There is a whole stereotype about mancats, but really, there are no options to actually play a male cat. So now they either have to make male characters or be treated like a "mancat."

Pretty much what I am saying is that, the gender locking isn't really a great idea after they have already done that in FFXI. They could at least change the races in FFXIV as much as adding Genders to races just to make a bit of difference.

You're now going back to FF11, I started as Mithra and found it weird that people online thought you have to represent your own gender ONLINE. When acually all you're doing is representing your personallity through binary code lol.

All it comes down to really is some nerd being annoying you're not an actual female, which is his own personal issue.

If you feel like its wrong to run around on a female character. Then forget about... like.. half the games ever made?

And from personal expericance its only americans that care about this type of thing. Cus, again from personal experiance, you're the biggest nerd nation on the planet. And some feel a MMO character is something akin to facebook...

[Cairdeas]

You're now going back to FF11, I started as Mithra and found it weird that people online thought you have to represent your own gender ONLINE. When acually all you're doing is representing your personallity through binary code lol.

All it comes down to really is some nerd being annoying you're not an actual female, which is his own personal issue.

If you feel like its wrong to run around on a female character. Then forget about... like.. half the games ever made?

And from personal expericance its only americans that care about this type of thing. Cus, again from personal experiance, you're the biggest nerd nation on the planet and you feel a MMO charater of something akin to facebook...

I'm Physically born Male in real life and want to play a Female Roegadyn. Your Argument is flawed.

[Shelia]

Well put, Cair.

Kam, you're just being stubborn and rude. It's not like we're asking for something that's completely impossible to do. They've mentioned in more than one interview that the MODELS ARE DONE and therefore it's not really sinking any time into development because everything is FINISHED. Yes, I am spelling this out for you. =)

All they need to do is find the time to implement them, and nobody's asking for them now. All we want is a definite answer, and perhaps a time frame.