Gender locked race?

[cicatriz313]

Giving us Hrothgar instead of male Viera would be cheating me out of my money. As cool as some people may find it, another cat race is not what the game needs right now. Viera are what was hyped up all this time and that is what we are entilted to. Hrothgar is an entirely different race, and can never be equivalent to male Viera in my eyes since they don't look the same and have a completely unknown story. What is truly lazy is writing out an entire gender of a race, which in no way, shape, or form will be well received by the community. They deserve rage and pitchforks if they reveal Hrothgar instead of male Viera at the fanfest.

Lmao, yay you used entitled. At least you accurately called yourself out. It is in no way cheating you out of anything because they never promised male Viera. But good job being ridiculous. I have been in the "don't care either way" camp, and only came in here to call out absurd arguments and see what people were saying, but you single-handedly made me interested in the outcome because now I want to see what you do in late March. I'll be bookmarking this post to keep an eye out

[Theodric]

They deserve rage and pitchforks if they reveal Hrothgar instead of male Viera at the fanfest. [/B]

That would not benefit your cause in the slightest.

[ErysNight]

Giving us Hrothgar instead of male Viera would be cheating me out of my money. As cool as some people may find it, another cat race is not what the game needs right now. Viera are what was hyped up all this time and that is what we are entilted to. Hrothgar is an entirely different race, and can never be equivalent to male Viera in my eyes since they don't look the same and have a completely unknown story. What is truly lazy is writing out an entire gender of a race, which in no way, shape, or form will be well received by the community. They deserve rage and pitchforks if they reveal Hrothgar instead of male Viera at the fanfest.

Hahahaha "Cheating you out of your money?" You are either a troll bent on stirring up trouble here or absolutely sickeningly entitled.

First and foremost, you pay for a service by your own choice and you do not own any part of it. SE is not obligated to cater this game to your standards and in return you can literally stop playing it whenever. Each time you pay your sub you are CHOOSING to accept the terms and conditions of what they are providing with this service and therefore are not getting cheated but willingly going along with it. You tell a company how you feel with your wallet.

Getting another new race is a bonus/blessing when they did not have to spend dev dollars on it at all. Especially considering they've been telling us how difficult it is to add in another race.

Entitled, ridiculous, ungrateful players are what make this entire community toxic.

SE if you see this, thank you for new races at all! Ignore the trolls!

[Wolfyboy]

Because I asked for Viera not Hrothgar. I wanted bunny males regardless of size, not this random race that not a single soul asked for. Also because gender locks are a stupid and lazy decision and I would STILL be here asking fo female Hrothgar if it was male-only Hrothgar revealed.

This is a weird statement to make, especially since people have been linking the old "new" race poll for Heavenward to show that Viera (demi-beast) races are popular. Yes, demi-beast (mammal + reptile) and new options (included mixed races) for the old races were most popular; however, there is 14% of people who voted that would play some sort of beastmen.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/46936

[stormygabe]

I'm also wondering why everyone wants specifically male Viera barring "hrothgar" when we know neither what male Viera or "hrothgar" look like. It seems that some of the community want little cute male bunnies and some want strong looking males like in the concept art. If we get a strong looking race that isn't a bunny, is it the lacking of the ears that will make people angry? Because I mean, they look like elezens with ears in most of the art people are throwing out there.

Edit: and then what happens with the people who want the cute version? I mean someone's gonna lose no matter what.

I can't speak for others, but for me, it's always been more than just the aesthetics, though their appearance IS still a factor. From the lore I've read, I've always thought of them as spiritual woodsy nature people. I've always loved characters like that. I also loved their stoic, calm, and wise demeanor from FF12. At least with Fran. With this new lore, I like the idea of them being these forest guardian types. So that's generally why I, personally, wanted a bun boy. Not just because #rabbitcute or whatever, but because the race as a whole has always appealed to me in that way. Idk anything about Hrothgar besides their names and what people have speculated about them, but if they're a hypermasculine type of race with a culture to match, I won't play them. I also don't like playing female characters in MMOS like this one, so I won't play a female viera either.

[Shougun]

not this random race that not a single soul asked for.

Today I learned.. I have no soul.. ;(

Feels bad man.

Quite a few people asked for something along the lines of Hrothgar, actually. Myself included.

In the same group eh, let's be friends! lol. Together we will find our souls .

I'm also wondering why everyone wants specifically male Viera barring "hrothgar" when we know neither what male Viera or "hrothgar" look like. It seems that some of the community want little cute male bunnies and some want strong looking males like in the concept art. If we get a strong looking race that isn't a bunny, is it the lacking of the ears that will make people angry? Because I mean, they look like elezens with ears in most of the art people are throwing out there.

Edit: and then what happens with the people who want the cute version? I mean someone's gonna lose no matter what.

Unless they heavily use the clan of Viera then I imagine someone will felt a bit lost out, which seems unlikely with the description being the very same as the one from Tactics universe and we know from that one the clan difference is skin color (basically).

Definitely whatever they do is not going to appease someone, I would suggest making both genders for both races would appease the most amount of people though :3

[Theodric]

In the same group eh, let's be friends! lol. Together we will find our souls .

Sure! We're both on the same server, anyway!

[Tsumdere]

Today I learned.. I have no soul.. ;(

Feels bad man.





In the same group eh, let's be friends! lol. Together we will find our souls .


Unless they heavily use the clan of Viera then I imagine someone will felt a bit lost out, which seems unlikely with the description being the very same as the one from Tactics universe and we know from that one the clan difference is skin color (basically).

Definitely whatever they do is not going to appease someone, I would suggest making both genders for both races would appease the most amount of people though :3

Man, if you have been reading my responses you know I have absolutely nothing against beast-like races like Ronso or Bangaa (both of which would be awesome). But no, no one has been asking for Hrothgar since they were just named last week.

This is a weird statement to make, especially since people have been linking the old "new" race poll for Heavenward to show that Viera (demi-beast) races are popular. Yes, demi-beast (mammal + reptile) and new options (included mixed races) for the old races were most popular; however, there is 14% of people who voted that would play some sort of beastmen.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/46936

I never said beastman. I said Hrothgar, which is a completely random race. If it were Ronso or Bangaa that were leaked, this wouldn't even be an argument that was happening. I would assume that Hrothgar aren't going to be similar to either, because if they were just Ronso... couldn't they just name them Ronso? Hrothgar are a huge gamble considering they are a completely new race that have no build-up and no concept art to go along with. We can make estimations on what male Viera would look like since we have seen female Viera and concept art, but the only thing we know for sure about Hrothgar is that they have manes. They could just as easily be a super short pony race with poofy hair as they could tall, bara cats.

[Wolfyboy]

Man, if you have been reading my responses you know I have absolutely nothing against beast-like races like Ronso or Bangaa (both of which would be awesome). But no, no one has been asking for Hrothgar since they were just named last week.



I never said beastman. I said Hrothgar, which is a completely random race. If it were Ronso or Bangaa that were leaked, this wouldn't even be an argument that was happening. I would assume that Hrothgar aren't going to be similar to either, because if they were just Ronso... couldn't they just name them Ronso? Hrothgar are a huge gamble considering they are a completely new race that have no build-up and no concept art to go along with. We can make estimations on what male Viera would look like since we have seen female Viera and concept art, but the only thing we know for sure about Hrothgar is that they have manes. They could just as easily be a super short pony race with poofy hair as they could tall, bara cats.

You're correct, I always assume a lion simply because Blufever's leaks have been pretty accurate. Although, we don't know the exact information he was going on.