Gender locked race?

[SomeRandomHuman]

Not unless its possible for beastmen to have the echo.

There was a sahagin priest that used the echo and ended up being devoured by leviathan. Go back and re-watch the leviathan arc cutscenes in the armoire.

[redcurrant18]

Hmm just did, but while it looks interesting it sure seems to work differently than ours. Plus, he was tempered. Either way, if Ronso were to be added in the game, it would make no sense to have only males since females exist and travel around as well in FFX. I know that people want this race a lot too, but I'd rather wait for them to release full races instead of 2 gender locked races.

[Senliten]

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

In a press conference, Yoshida was asked whether this was going to continue to be the case or whether male Viera would be coming with the 5.0 update to the popular MMO. However, he refused to comment on this matter, teasing that this would be revealed at the Tokyo Fan Fest on March 23rd-24th 2019 (he even did a motion zipping his mouth).

[ElazulHP]

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

If the Blufever leaker holds true, and he's been right so far, it's going to be male only Ronso. Odds of that being what is revealed in Tokyo over male Viera is much more likely imo.

[Pixiehawk]

If the Blufever leaker holds true, and he's been right so far, it's going to be male only Ronso. Odds of that being what is revealed in Tokyo over male Viera is much more likely imo.

I never saw the leaks themselves, just write ups on them. But I thought he said 2 races, not 2 gender locked races.

[xbahax92]

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

It doesnt mean anything though. It still implies some sort of "maybe, maybe not". This doesnt help at all.

edit: Also, he had the chance to confirm or deny that they exist. I dont understand why its necessary to keep it top secret. He would still have a reason to hold onto it for JP FanFest, cause no one will know how they will end up looking ingame&artwork.
Instead they keep the player base with an unsettling feeling and cause rather frustration instead of hype.

[PangTong]

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

This isn't an explicit male Viera confirmation but it does at least suggest they have something else up their sleeve. They can avoid the worst-case scenario of only having a single race that's gender-locked, but if it's just another gender-locked race instead of male Viera I think they'll be making the wrong decision.

[Ayer2015]

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

Not really. All this states is that we will find out in 2 months if Viera are gender locked. The question asked was not a difficult one to answer, and their refusal to confirm one way or the other will generate animosity rather than hype.

[Senliten]

Not really. All this states is that we will find out in 2 months if Viera are gender locked. The question asked was not a difficult one to answer, and their refusal to confirm one way or the other will generate animosity rather than hype.

Well remember the last few interviews, such as with housing iirc, or some info during hw, back when Yoshi-P had some guy behind him in a suit letting him know what can and cannot be currently stated, during interviews, and how they even joked during some of the live letters that mr. 'soandso' is looking a bit head shaking in regards to certain info. What if in all honesty this is just the same thing, but this time due to Yoshi-P's new position, he has to do that sort of self checking on his own.

Literally, this is not the first time SE has held info back, and it won't be the last. They have been fairly secretive and only letting info out when it was good and right. Him not answering brings those times from the past up. Something is obviously hinted at, but to go all fear mongering and popping blood vessels is no real way to go about this cause 'we can't have the info now, so lets just throw baseless ragesumptions out there to cause mass negativity and panic'.

[Crushnight]

Lets wait for tomorrow Q&A time that question will be the million dollar question worry not tomorrow you will take your doubt.
Honestly they have so much consideration for the players opinions and many have expressed they want to play Viera male, seriously no joke I doubt that won't be male gender for Viera.

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

1st ty for linking that 2nd all this tells me is i have to wait 1 month and 20 days for them to reveal why males were not in any promotional material for Viera. They keep dancing around this issue creating unrest in their community for no reason it is stupid how they have gone about this and it will harm them more because if they reveal no males then the backlash be much bigger than now if they reveal males are playable they have no reason not to try an tease us with a joke or something everything seems wrong