Gender locked race?

[Labyxt]

This (and no new healer announced *yet*) was extremely disappointing. I don't even mind Hrothgar, in fact my position during all this waiting was supporting both options to be added. I'm glad for who wanted something different and got it like they wanted. I'll probably even play around with the character creator but for sure won't change. But WHY the genderlock. Why we couldn't have this AND male Viera (and, well, female Hrothgar too). Why is male Viera something so uncomfortabloe that can't possibly be added into the game. Just, WHY.

[enaykin]

Adding my voice to the group of players upset by the decision to gender lock the races. It didn't work before and it's not going to work now. Please reconsider and reverse this decision, Square.

[wylantar]

I'm so disappointed.. Between this and no new healer I honestly don't know if I'm getting this next expansion. TWO gender locked races after unlocking Miqo'te and Roegadyn.. why??

And the ONLY reason ANY of us were excited for male Viera to begin with was that freaking concept art back when they almost added them instead of the Au Ra.

[Anzaman]

I'm so disappointed.. Between this and no new healer I honestly don't know if I'm getting this next expansion. TWO gender locked races after unlocking Miqo'te and Roegadyn.. why??

Like Keeric earlier said, most likely to appeal two major groups that had been asking for them; female Viera and bestial race.

Development time is finite, so you have to make cuts somewhere. Especially when their dev team is apparently lacking on female devs. I'm sure you people remember how long it took before Gold Saucers bunny outfit was released for male -characters, now imagine having to do whole race out of it.

[NahuNa]

Like Keeric earlier said, most likely to appeal two major groups that had been asking for them; female Viera and bestial race.

Development time is finite, so you have to make cuts somewhere. Especially when their dev team is apparently lacking on female devs. I'm sure you people remember how long it took before Gold Saucers bunny outfit was released for male -characters, now imagine having to do whole race out of it.

The thing is, though, they already knew people wanted male bunny suits, a LOT. They didn't take long to do it because it was hard work, it was because they just didn't want to! But then they did it and everyone loved it, which is proof everyone would love male vieras too. The fact they actively work against the community's wishes is just baffling!

[Anzaman]

The thing is, though, they already knew people wanted male bunny suits, a LOT. They didn't take long to do it because it was hard work, it was because they just didn't want to! But then they did it and everyone loved it, which is proof everyone would love male vieras too. The fact they actively work against the community's wishes is just baffling!

Pretty sure I remember them saying that they assigned said outfit work for female worker(s).

So aye, basically boils down that male side of devs there doesn't want to work on male bunny stuff.

[Kallera]

Pretty sure I remember them saying that they assigned said outfit work for female worker(s).

So aye, basically boils down that male side of devs there doesn't want to work on male bunny stuff.

Yeah, I’m voting with my wallet on this one. Its not my only reason, but I do feel bad for all the people that wanted bun bros. And the fact that Yoshi P went with BUGS BUNNY as the teaser, just to let people down like this just makes it seem all the more like he trolled his own audience.

[Skyward]

Well I wasn't disappointed at least. That's just my bias though.

[Wilford111]

I just hope that the dev team saw this backlash coming and will stay headstrong with their decision.
Or at the very least, create a version for both genders down the line to satisfy everyone.

[Enla]

I just hope that the dev team saw this backlash coming and will stay headstrong with their decision.
Or at the very least, create a version for both genders down the line to satisfy everyone.

It happened before, no reason it can't going forward. Well, except 'hardware limitations' but that's to be expected.

I do feel bad for the forum moderators however... They really are in the middle of a storm they had no hand in right now.