Gender locked race?

[Shougun]

Just for giggles I overlayed them with a sloppeh tween animation lol:

[Lacan]

At least three of the faces shown look vastly different to me. Let's have a look from a different point in the reveal trailer.



1, 2 and 3 clearly look different to me though it's a bit harder to tell with 1 and 4.

they all do look different, but I still think the base face is the same. You can do a lot with the customization options. Like even from those angles, you can see that the cheeks and chin stay pretty much the same.

[Riardon]

Just for giggles I overlayed them with a sloppeh tween animation lol:

Same base face. Different eye colors, make up, hair and mouth shape.
The base face is still the same.

[Crushnight]

they also use the same ear type when we know their are different variants which don't help with not pointing out how similar they are and probably leads credence that the Viera trailer was rushed

[WhiteArchmage]

I wonder if they'll genderlock DNC too.

I know that this is ancient in internet time but... To make a gender-locked job would require extensive amounts of coding, probably twice as much debugging as a regular job and would be incredibly hard to "police."

You already have to unequip everything when you use a Fantasia, so they'd need to code a warning message "Please change out of any gender-limited job before returning to the Character Creation screen" or the game would bug out when you tried to log back in (Averted for the actual CC screen since it drops you in the original class you chose, but the game will put you back in the class you logged out as).

On the faces topic. The nose is the same, the light is just hitting it differently, the eyes, mouth and eyebrows (we only really see one's brows because of the hair) are so similar that if they ARE different faces I'm more concerned about the lack of customization...

[Fland]

...they could have at least given the Xaela women the fierce threatment since they are living in harsh conditions.

that's what one of my issues in regards of this race and lore relation.... the look of the male of a race could be varied differently based on lore but rarely applied to the female.

it's the same case with SE tendency to associate healer job with female, because apparently big bulky guy looks weird channeling magic from a distance, healing people *rolleyes*

[Alesone]

And lets not forget that they have at least one female Au Ra emote.

maybe the copied emotes were just placeholders? I don't think they've reused emotes like that before have they?

While the emotes are similar, they are not identical. This notion that they just copied Au Ra emotes has been a falsehood spread from the beginning. None of the actual emotes shown were copied, and some of the cposes look similar but that's it, many races have similar cposes because they often follow the same kind of poses, such as arms crossed or hands on hips. There is significant differences in the leg positions for the Viera ones that absolutely differentiate them from other similar poses.

[Duskane]

2 weeks to go now

[Fredco191]

2 weeks to go now

It’s still too far. I’m gonna die right before the announcements.

[Krokov]

If they add male Veira cool good to hear but if they don't I probably won't be surprised I'm sure it'll either be that or they'll add different race that's male-only to go with the female only Veira OR it's just the female Viera when nothing else maybe unlikely but possible.