Gender locked race?

[Beckett]

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.

Then they should have said something. Anything. If they were planning on adding male Viera, then they have absolutely nothing to gain from hiding their existence. If they had said, "We can't show you male Viera right now, but they will be available." we wouldn't be seeing the "forum rage" that we're seeing right now. There'd be a bit of disappointment, but no one would really be upset (just like how no one was really upset over all the other things they openly told us they didn't have ready and would show at Tokyo).

[Senn]

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.

idk but there was word of another version of viera that would be shorter, and those weren't shown either. I don't think we've had two different sub-groups of a race since hyur - midlander and highlanders. If there really are going to be two sub-groups of viera, along with male viera, then I could understand why they are saving that reveal for a different fanfest.

I'm gonna guess the short version will look somewhat like this

[Lissandra]

Right now, your only hope is someone submits a question asking about male viera and Yoshida drawing it for the Eorzean Question Time tomorrow.

[Uielyave]

I reallllly hope there will be male viera... it's not a good idea to put them behind a gender lock when you have so many people that want to play the males. Stop coming up with BS lore stating "oh uh they only mate like once every like blue moon so lol males dont exist". That is so lazy and gross and pandering to this weird male fantasy of overly sexualized bunny ladies. :/

[Hanayumi]

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?

Yep! Sounds like SE to me, I mean we\\'re getting a Nier raid that totally blindsided everyone, they pretty much do whatever they want...

[Skos]

Yep! Sounds like SE to me, I mean we\\'re getting a Nier raid that totally blindsided everyone, they pretty much do whatever they want...

Ah yeah, the Nier raid tier that is totally lore-appropriate for ff14.
But a reveal for a gender of a newly announced race that canonically exists within the world of 14?
Calm down son, now you're asking for too much.

[Liale]

Honestly I feel this is sexist, it took us forever to get male bunny outfits because they said none of the male devs would touch it and they had to get the female devs to do it. I would hope that is not the case with male viera but considering the females are all skimpily clad females .......... well *shrugs*

[SpiritMuse]

I would be very disappointed if the Viera were indeed female only. I was very much looking forward to running around as a cute bunny boy. :/

[Moomba33]

My experience with this game has taught me to never assume we're getting more than exactly what is shown. I'm inclined to think Viera is female only and we may be getting a male only race revealed at next fanfest.
I hope I'm wrong. I'm not personally interested in Viera but between this and BLU being limited I'm very disappointed in SE. =/

[Anyan]

If they don't give us male Viera, I might seriously quit this game. Not because I must play one (I do want to though) but because I don't want to support a company that would do something as disgusting. And no, I don't want a male only race either. If it's some kind of lion race? How about NO! We have felines already!
I hate that I'm going to sound like some kind of SJW here but I'm so sick of this pandering to straight men, with waifus everywhere. Even bosses are mainly made out of waifus. If they're male they usually look like ass, barely human if at all.