Gender locked race?

[Novak_04]

Is this going to be a thing for the Viera? Female only? They didn't show any male Viera and that makes me sad...

[Valan]

I hope no. There was some artwrok of male viera in the first fanfest.

Edit: found it

[Novak_04]

I hope they allow male Viera as well. It's odd that they only highlighted the female models. Have they typically only shown the female versions (or one version in general) in the past for a new race? I don't want to be too quick about my judgments, hence the inquiry.

[Kaedan]

I hope they allow male Viera as well. It's odd that they only highlighted the female models. Have they typically only shown the female versions (or one version in general) in the past for a new race? I don't want to be too quick about my judgments, hence the inquiry.

For a long time, Miquote only had Females.

[frostmagemari]

For a long time, Miquote only had Females.

That was only because the original FFXIV effectively ported the character choices from XI and gave them updated graphics; and we all know how all the decisions made in 1.0's launch went over.

[Canadane]

That was only because the original FFXIV effectively ported the character choices from XI and gave them updated graphics; and we all know how all the decisions made in 1.0's launch went over.

People were not upset over the lack of those races having multiple genders.
Many of the 1.0 ideas were fine, so saying “all the decisions” is questionable.

[frostmagemari]

People were not upset over the lack of those races having multiple genders.
Many of the 1.0 ideas were fine, so saying “all the decisions” is questionable.

Yup. They made a lot of good decisions in xiv 1.0 so many good decisions and ideas that the game was a complete and total failure and had to be rebuilt from the ground up to be a totally different game.
As for people being upset at the lack of gender choices.. They weren't happy about the lack of choice, but 1.0 had much larger problems that drove 99% of it's player base away so it was a minor issue all things considered (since even back in XI, people found it stupid that male Mithra weren't a thing.)

I just want to contribute one thing to the entire discussion:
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The problem with that is.. SQE made the lore and mechanic limitations for XIV; And if they don't have the male Viera, this isn't "we have to make X mechanic fit in with lore to stay faithful", this is a case of "we're creating X mechanic, and going to use lore to excuse it"

[Kaedan]

That was only because the original FFXIV effectively ported the character choices from XI and gave them updated graphics; and we all know how all the decisions made in 1.0's launch went over.

Actually, it's because the races in FF14 are essentially carbon copies of the races from FF11 with updated graphics and name changes.

Miquote = Mithra
Lalafel = Tarutaru
Elezen = Elvaan
Hyur = Hume
Roe = Galka (admittedly, this was the biggest model update with a few significant changes)

There were never any playable male Mithra in FF11 and the lore was copied over as well (males stay home). There was a ton of complaining in FF11 too with people wanting cat boys. Yoshi-P just finally gave into it (but dropped the ball on QA).

[Tonkra]

I hope they allow male Viera as well. It's odd that they only highlighted the female models. Have they typically only shown the female versions (or one version in general) in the past for a new race? I don't want to be too quick about my judgments, hence the inquiry.

I think they showed just female models for now because they want to surprise with male vieras..

in FFXII there have been no male vieras at all. So it would be a surprise here to see male vieras for the very first time.

The Viera trailer was more or less a tribute to Final Fantasy XII in that way.

[Tsumdere]

Extremely disappointed. Very lazy and pandering.

Definitely thought SE was better than this with their track record of opening up past races to both genders. I guess the male bunny suit annoyance wasn't enough for them, now they'll just get badgered every Q&A session and fan fest about this instead.

I still hope there will be males... somehow. Else they won't be receiving my fantasia money.