Gender locked race?

[Pixiehawk]

They have the freedom after all i say since FFXIV is its own game in the franchise, i mean if you look at FFXI they als had "Miqote", "Rogadyn" which were gender locked, tooked those and made there own in this game, why not make the same with Viera, its another Universe simply, homages and inspiratiosn to the franchise as a whole are ok but give me something new Square, i would had even prefered Bangana as playable race but asian market and there "cute characters", the Viera as shown now in 14 are also less beastly as there originals, same base model as always sadly with just ears anda tail added again basically, the feet are the only example so far.

Well, when they made this game (1.0) there were no catbois, femroes, or female Highlanders. That was one of the first things they decided to fix when they blew up 1.0. Gender locking Vieria would be a step back.

I'm not changing, maybe an alt. It's not going to affect me one way or the other. But I can see how others would be upset. And I would see it as a step backwards.

[Kallera]

I don’t care what “enligtened” platitudes they cough up as an excuse. This is sexist. This is “bunsplaining”, and we are all the poorer for it.

[JunseiKei]

I don’t care what “enligtened” platitudes they cough up as an excuse. This is sexist. This is “bunsplaining”, and we are all the poorer for it.

Please leave politics and vulgarity out of the thread. Thank you~

[Corue]

Limited race. Please understand.

[Nedkel]

Can't wait for these to become 75% of the population.

[Hanayumi]

Meh, think it's still too early to tell. They're generally quick to point out these kinds of things right away, no comfirmation means it's still up in the air. More likely they still have something to reveal, male Viera or something else entirely, "please look forward to it."

[Skos]

Meh, think it's still too early to tell. They're generally quick to point out these kinds of things right away, no comfirmation means it's still up in the air. More likely they still have something to reveal, male Viera or something else entirely, "please look forward to it."

It just seems a bit silly you know? A race reveal is generally something highly anticipated that will boost sales.
So why reveal a new race 4 days before pre-orders open but only reveal the females? Why make literally no mention of male Viera in your race reveal video and your art panel where you had a segment about the new race?

Why dance around this issue 4 days before pre-orders open? Because Square wants to keep something to reveal for the Tokyo Fanfest? Do they really have this little content that they need to keep the reveal of a race's GENDER for an entirely different fanfest?

[Beckett]

It just seems a bit silly you know? A race reveal is generally something highly anticipated that will boost sales.
So why reveal a new race 4 days before pre-orders open but only reveal the females? Why make literally no mention of male Viera in your race reveal video and your art panel where you had a segment about the new race?

Why dance around this issue 4 days before pre-orders open? Because Square wants to keep something to reveal for the Tokyo Fanfest? Do they really have this little content that they need to keep the reveal of a race's GENDER for an entirely different fanfest?

Saving this. There is absolutely no logical reason for them to delay the announcement of male Viera, so the "best" case scenario is that they're just woefully incompetent.

[AnnaRosa]

Saving this. There is absolutely no logical reason for them to delay the announcement of male Viera, so the "best" case scenario is that they're just woefully incompetent.

What if they have details yet to decide and do not want to anticipate those decisions to not let the players become hysterical (on the positive side of the word) and if they have to change something later avoid the players to do the usual forum rage like is happening now.

Would be a bad financial decision to the company imo if they did not add the Viera males attending the forum requests from the other players.

Please SE include the whatever bunny on steroids they asking, as long it isn't a Kangaroo no offense meant to the real Kangaroos cause this subject is giving me nausea and is tiredsome.

[PangTong]

What if they have details yet to decide and do not want to anticipate those decisions to not let the players become hysterical (on the positive side of the word) and if they have to change something later avoid the players to do the usual forum rage, like is happening now.

If they really do have male Viera waiting in the wings for a later reveal, this is all they had to do:
- Viera trailer finishes playing
- Koji: "Wait, but there were only female Viera in that trailer, what about the males?"
- Yoshida pretends not to hear and then moves on with the presentation.
That's all we needed, we would get the message. "Male Viera are coming, we'll show them later". They didn't need concept art or anything. By completely avoiding any mention of the males it gives rise to the strong possibility that there are no male Viera at all and they're dodging the question.