Gender locked race?

[BiddyBatnana]

Now I'm confused, I don't know if I want a female Ronso or a male Viera @_@
Stop messing with my mind vile forum thread.

[Senn]

I think what Yoshi p said about adding a separate race in a past interview does hold some weight. I think it's likely we will get a lion-esque, male gender locked race. Especially since the leaker has been mostly accurate. Hmm....

[KaijinRhada]

I'm up for bestial anything, but I have a problem with a lion-esque race. Lions are felines, different genus, but still cats. You know what's also a feline race? Miqo'te.

Fill your (as in SE's boots) with going for a bestial race if Viera are genderlocked (I still hope not), but if it is a leonine race, it should have been something else.

Also with a leonine race, I'm going to be honest, and say I actually thought Moombas first.

But if they were a new Beast Tribe??? OMG I WOULD DIE THEY'RE TOO ADORABLE.

Now back to topic. >_>

[Kupocoubo]

I'm up for bestial anything, but I have a problem with a lion-esque race. Lions are felines, different genus, but still cats. You know what's also a feline race? Miqo'te.

Fill your (as in SE's boots) with going for a bestial race if Viera are genderlocked (I still hope not), but if it is a leonine race, it should have been something else.

Also with a leonine race, I'm going to be honest, and say I actually thought Moombas first.

But if they were a new Beast Tribe??? OMG I WOULD DIE THEY'RE TOO ADORABLE.

Now back to topic. >_>

If they want to make a lion race they can just give miqo'te some manes, or even introduce a new sub miqo'te race with mane, maybe more threatening

[stormygabe]

If they want to make a lion race they can just give miqo'te some manes, or even introduce a new sub miqo'te race with mane, maybe more threatening

THIS is something I can also get on board with. Give the already existing feline race more lion features people seem to be so thirsty for! I would LOVE to give Cat Daddy an epic mane. At least for a time.

[KaijinRhada]

If they want to make a lion race they can just give miqo'te some manes, or even introduce a new sub miqo'te race with mane, maybe more threatening

This exactly. I love cats, but having two separate feline races feels incredibly redundant.

[Jaywalker]

This exactly. I love cats, but having two separate feline races feels incredibly redundant.

Yup! I said before but also you can make hellsguard roegadyn look like big cats anyway which just makes it more redundant. lion people would be silly imo.

[xbahax92]

I'm up for bestial anything, but I have a problem with a lion-esque race. Lions are felines, different genus, but still cats. You know what's also a feline race? Miqo'te.

You forget something here though. Viera are created by someone else, as someone pointed it out in this thread. I do not think that Yoshida can ignore how Matsuno-san envisions male Viera. Im pretty sure YoshiP asked him how he thinks about them, and lets be honest, there is no reason to restrict it just because there is another feline race.
Im pretty sure many players here want them to be something taller than Male Miqote but not to tall, many dont like large races just as Roe, Elezen, Highlander and Male Au Ra. At least, thats what I think and experienced so far inside the game. Bishie look, this ones popular.

I sure do. Link

Q38: In terms of new races, what kind of races are you looking into and will mixed races be introduced?

A38: I don’t think we’ll have mixed races for a while. Since it seems like Viera is popular around the world we have been proactively looking into this, but since having a rabbit male might be kind of weird, maybe we’ll look into having a separate race for the male counterpart.

There is a chance this changed though. I mean, he took the creator of Tactics and FF12 into the team. And if Matsuno-san is really the creator of Viera, then he also has the opportunity to create the Male Viera.

[Gwenorai]

Of course; I still think it would be extremely shoddy writing if they weren't in game however due to the very nature of Male Viera and their wood. How would they go around the fact the only few males that are around live in that specific wood? I already made an earlier post regarding their number based on a population of three million people being in Ivalice, with 5% Viera population with 8:2 female to male ratio + 75% of the males being culled due to strict lifestyle and that was STILL 7500. That's a big number for a race that will be concentrated in that very wood, who shoot trespassers on sight because outsiders in their wood is like a heinous crime.

How would we, the WoL and our party manage to get through the wood without being attacked by one? And yes they attack from the shadows, but this is the WoL/WoD they're not going to go down with one shot which will end up with a confrontation.

Not to mention their wood - which Yoshi P mentioned - was burning in the trailer. Another reason for them to come out and fight or help with the blaze. It honestly just doesn't make sense to me at the minimal for there not to be a male viera NPC.

I just can't wrap my head around it.
'Oh yeah, all the males are in this wood and shoot outsiders on sight. But you the WoL/WoD won't see any of them during this epic battle between you and the Empire while in the woodland. You'll just have to deal with flavour text that tells you they're doing something - maybe have some bodies randomly show up with arrows in them or something - yeah, yeah - let's do that. Can't show any 'awkward' Bunnymen.'

10/10 shoddy writing.

[Shippuu]

How would we, the WoL and our party manage to get through the wood without being attacked by one? And yes they attack from the shadows, but this is the WoL/WoD they're not going to go down with one shot which will end up with a confrontation.

Not to mention their wood - which Yoshi P mentioned - was burning in the trailer. Another reason for them to come out and fight or help with the blaze. It honestly just doesn't make sense to me at the minimal for there not to be a male viera NPC.

I don't think you're considering a potential story element they could be using with that particular burning wood. Male Viera are already very rare and staunch defenders of the wood. If a significant threat were to approach the woods, it would make sense for them to gather to defend it, no? And if that so happens to gather the majority of those already rare males into one spot to defend their home? Then a sudden massive inferno would make short work of them potentially. This would be a powerful story hook that would not only give female viera a tragic element if the vast majority of their already small male population was eradicated, but would further solidify even more of an excuse to not include playable male Viera.

We know SE isn't afraid to gut punch the players with tragic stories, after all.

Yup! I said before but also you can make hellsguard roegadyn look like big cats anyway which just makes it more redundant. lion people would be silly imo.

This same argument can be made against Viera with Miqote. You can make miqote or even elezen look like Viera already, so adding Viera is redundant.