Gender locked race?

[Cled-cat]

This is so exciting!! I’d love to see two fully-fledged races, that would totally blow our expectations, please let it be true!!

[Crushnight]

Having both would be a dream so please don't wake me up XD

[stopatfiveorsixstores]

Hey guys, what about the possibility that they add female Viera and male Hrothgar first, with plans to add their opposite sex counterparts later depending on player requests? Say, if they get a high demand right away, they'll move development to release them within 5.x, else, in 6.0 instead. Edited: this would stay true that these will be their last races to add in the game. Adding the opposite sex doesn't count as adding a new race.

[Roda]

I'd rather them finish the races they started like when they fixed the errors made with the 1.0 races.

[stopatfiveorsixstores]

I'd rather them finish the races they started like when they fixed the errors made with the 1.0 races.

I agree! But devs have said working on a race is a lot of work, and considering they often reuse animations, gear and monster reskins etc. I'm just saying that adding two full races seems like a lot of work.

One other possibility is that they already had work done for Viera in the beginning of SB or late HW, giving them time to implement another new race.

[Corue]

Hey guys, what about the possibility that they add female Viera and male Hrothgar first, with plans to add their opposite sex counterparts later depending on player requests? Say, if they get a high demand right away, they'll move development to release them within 5.x, else, in 6.0 instead. Edited: this would stay true that these will be their last races to add in the game. Adding the opposite sex doesn't count as adding a new race.

I'd rather they just add them immediately instead of trying to sell a half finished product. Limited jobs are bad enough, so let's not graduate to limited races.

[Metsonm]

There are only, what, 4 White Mages in existence?

Sure do see a lot of White Mages around, huh?

[Risvertasashi]

There are only, what, 4 White Mages in existence?

Sure do see a lot of White Mages around, huh?

More to the point, there's only 1 white mage that isn't padjal - an unplayable NPC race.

[Hunky]

Somebody posted on Reddit that they found another interesting line in the files. During one of the gladiator quests, an NPC refers to the player by his/her race and an accompanying descriptor that varies depending on the player's race.

For Hrothgar, it's their "majestic mane".

Considering that only male lions grow manes, I'm pretty certain Hrothgar is going to be male-only, leaving Viera to be female-only.

Unless females get manes too. It's not unheard of in video games. The female Pyroar in Pokemon have manes, and the female Pantera in Bless have long hairstyles that could be interpreted as manes.





Even so, my hopes for male Viera have pretty much diminished. I really don't think we're getting two full-blown races. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

[Shougun]

Unless females get manes too. It's not unheard of in video games. The female Pyroar in Pokemon have manes, and the female Pantera in Bless have long hairstyles that could be interpreted as manes.

If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

I'm thinking perhaps the race has a lot of glorious thick hair.. just my personal interpretation of very little information lol (have your mountain of salt ).

It does seem hard to fathom two full races at once but... would be pretty awesome if true.. :3

Also the fact that the race in the data sounds like a lion, like what we've been thinking, (mane) really backs it up as not just some random thing. What a wild ride. Can't wait for Fanfest XD.