Gender locked race?

[decoratibo]

I'm legitimately curious about this - who actually asked for or wanted the Hrothgar?

[BiddyBatnana]

I'm legitimately curious about this - who actually asked for or wanted the Hrothgar?

I didn't ask for them but I do want them now

[Theodric]

I'm legitimately curious about this - who actually asked for or wanted the Hrothgar?

Quite a lot of people have requested a playable race along the lines of the Ronso over the years. It just so happens that whenever they were brought up the same sort of scathing commentary and rage you see in response to the gender lock was thrown their way. I would have preferred them to be a bit closer to Byakko in terms of design, though I'm very happy for those who I know wanted a 'bestial' playable race. Which isn't a small number at all.

[decoratibo]

Quite a lot of people have requested a playable race along the lines of the Ronso over the years. It just so happens that whenever they were brought up the same sort of scathing commentary and rage you see in response to the gender lock was thrown their way. I would have preferred them to be a bit closer to Byakko in terms of design, though I'm very happy for those who I know wanted a 'bestial' playable race. Which isn't a small number at all.

I must have missed this then, but I can understand why people would want a bestial race. However, they've effectively dumped around half of that population by gender-locking it to men only. I can also imagine they lost another chunk of that population just by virtue of how ugly they are...I'm getting more Cats the Musical as played by Roegadyn vibes rather than actual bestial qualities lol. I feel like not very many people saw the reveal and went "Oh, finally!!!! This is exactly what I wanted!" but that's just me.

[Alesone]

[Jeibird]

I would like to add to the pile of feedback and politely voice my own displeasure with gender locked races, especially after the declaration that they would attempt to limit genderlocking in the future after adding the male bunny suit items.

And not to get too political but having yet another popular mmo with a big, complexly designed, and feature-interesting muscle bound dude race with an underdressed sexy female only race is also a bit much. I really thought they were better than this.

[Corue]

I feel bad for Ronso. Would have been cool if they came as their own separate race, but since they've come as a "replacement" for another race's gender they'll be shunned by the greater community for taking it away.
If they just made both Viera genders and released Ronso at a later date none of this backlash would happen.
#ronsodidnothingwrong

[RikkCavalier]

They've already made this mistake in 1.0 for those of us who have really been devout fans and witnessed firsthand with male miq and fem roe. I will log on and post every day until they add both sexes for each race and I encourage those who feel strongly enough to do the same. /day 1

[Em_Tibbett]

Genderlocked races after this long? Didn't they learn from the disappointment with Au Ra gender dimorphism, catboys, roe ladies, all of it????

Incredibly disappointing, hoping they change their minds.

Edit 9/2019: After all the information that came out, I get it. I know why they did what they did. And I would much rather have a dev team that doesn't overwork themselves than two full new races.

[Miniimu]

Popping into voice my displeasure as well.

Gender locked races are disappointing across the board. Didn't they already fix this exact mistake in 2.0 with the Male Miqo and Female Roe/Highlanders? I can't believe they did the same thing again. If they'd come out and said 'hey we're not ready to do female Hrothgar/male Viera but we have plans to' it'd probably have done a lot to quell the storm, as it were. But here we are. In 2019 and thinking gender locked races are acceptable lmao.

The worst timeline.