Gender locked race?

[Thefates]

Limiting to the whole "Big Brute 'ugly' Muscle " Male and the "Pretty, cute, object" Female with with gender locked races just feels so old fashioned and gross!

The Ronso look super rough tho and well the Viera are Viera cute tall ladies. I like player choice and this really limits player choice in their Avatar. Some people dont really care about how their avatar look ((and that's 100% fair) but for others "glamour is the true endgame"

Its just disappointing to see it turn out this way.

Seriously, just give us some masculine females and some feminine males. This is literally the perfect opportunity to do so now.

[Theodric]

Limiting to the whole "Big Brute 'ugly' Muscle " Male and the "Pretty, cute, object" Female with with gender locked races just feels so old fashioned and gross!

Seriously, just give us some masculine females and some feminine males. This is literally the perfect opportunity to do so now.

You can already design rough looking women in-game if you wish as well as more delicate looking men. It's not as if either aesthetic is neglected when it comes to the character customisation system.

[Kazran]

You can already design rough looking women in-game if you wish as well as more delicate looking men. It's not as if either aesthetic is neglected when it comes to the character customisation system.

There is nothing wrong with more options. A female Roe and a female Hrothgar would be different hugely in aesthetic as would male Viera be different to Lalafell and Miqote. Especially if based from the concept art that exists of Male Viera. Yes the races are 'rough' or 'cute' or 'sexy' but in different ways and in different tastes. I'm not saying we should cater to very taste but these being their 'final' races it feels silly to limit them so.

[seros]

I'm disapointed, this is a really backwards way of thinking and I thought the dev team grew from that way of thinking. I'll probably play through the MSQ of shadowbringers but my sub time will probably be cut down majorly compared to SB. Since they're going about it this way.

[Gwenorai]

I'm also not going to quit over this, I have my Hyur. I have my Miqo'te - that isn't on steroids. Still, I would have liked male Viera. I would have liked female Hrothgar. I despise genderlocks, I hate them, even more, when there's a history of them already established and there seem to be no lessons learned from the past.

What it smells like is this is just going to be a repeat. They're running out of time to complete the game - they announced the lock. They plan to revoke the lock in the future with customer complaints; or not if the complaints aren't enough. That's the only silver lining I see.

I can't even be damned happy about Dancer even if it's my preferred type of dps - they're probably even more so upset about it than I am. Heck, I'm not even upset, just so baffled by the logic.

[Whimsical_Moose]

I cancelled my preoder and my subscription. I thought SE wouldn't make this gender-lock mistake after they fixed it post-1.0. If the issue is that male developers won't work on male viera (the reason why it took so long to get male bunny outfits in Golden Saucer) then fix the antiquated hiring practices at SE and hire more female developers. If SE can't be bothered to hire a diverse developer team and cater to the 40% female player-base who just want cute bunny boys then I regret the hundreds of dollars I already spent at SE's store and will happily move on to another franchise that does care about its fans. My issue with the lack of male viera isn't that I particularly wanted to play as one (although I had 5 fantasia saved up for playing around with male viera), but that the choice to not give the player-base male viera is just the developers once again ignoring what the female player-base wants and trying to cater to the straight, male player-base. Since companies only care about money, this is my only way to tell SE that their behavior is unacceptable.

[Endeleon]

I cancelled my preoder and my subscription. I thought SE wouldn't make this gender-lock mistake after they fixed it post-1.0. If the issue is that male developers won't work on male viera (the reason why it took so long to get male bunny outfits in Golden Saucer) then fix the antiquated hiring practices at SE and hire more female developers. If SE can't be bothered to hire a diverse developer team and cater to the 40% female player-base who just want cute bunny boys then I regret the hundreds of dollars I already spent at SE's store and will happily move on to another franchise that does care about its fans. My issue with the lack of male viera isn't that I particularly wanted to play as one (although I had 5 fantasia saved up for playing around with male viera), but that the choice to not give the player-base male viera is just the developers once again ignoring what the female player-base wants and trying to cater to the straight, male player-base. Since companies only care about money, this is my only way to tell SE that their behavior is unacceptable.

Can I ask how you cancelled it? I ordered on the SE NA shop and it's not letting me cancel my pre-order.

[Tabbs]

Can I ask how you cancelled it? I ordered on the SE NA shop and it's not letting me cancel my pre-order.

Did you redeem your code for the aetheryte earring? I may be wrong, but I think that forfeits right to refund, unfortunately.

[Endeleon]

Did you redeem your code for the aetheryte earring? I may be wrong, but I think that forfeits right to refund, unfortunately.

Ugh, yes. GDI. I wasn't exactly expecting to be insanely disappointed. But they managed it.

[Tabbs]

Ugh, yes. GDI. I wasn't exactly expecting to be insanely disappointed. But they managed it.

I'm in the same boat. It's worth a shot to contact them and try anyways, but I guess that's what we get for jumping the gun haha. I just cancelled sub. For what it's worth, I'm sure they will undo these locks one day. As others have said, they'll probably add male buns and female lions later and try to reap the positive karma lol.