Gender locked race?

[Rokke]

You don't know what they might have in store.
And the current 'bara' race is ugly as sin.

Highlanders are arguably better looking than Roe and they're still unpopular.

The most popular males in the west are hyu (midlander) > miqo > au ra (xaela)
The most popular males in the east are lala > miqo > hyur (midlander)
cute-to-handsome = fanta sales

[redcurrant18]

You don't know what they might have in store.
And the current 'bara' race is ugly as sin.

That still doesn't stop a large amount of gay bara enthusiasts from playing as roegadyn. Beauty and what makes people attractive varies from person to person, and from the looks of it roegadyn fulfill a lot of the criteria that group is looking for. There's lots of roegadyn fanart all over the internet, and their Hellsguard variant has an animal nose that when coupled with different ears can pretty much look like any animal. This group likely doesn't want to see more "twink" males, but bears/stocky guys tend to throw anyone who is smaller than them into that category, so there's no set limit for what makes a twink. Ideally we need a race with a medium/strong build that doesn't go into either extreme.

[Corue]

And a bara race would be the best use of resources? When the bara race that currently exists in game has the lowest population of all the playable races across all DCs?

"Alright Yoshi-P, our latest expansion is coming up and we need to work on our race. What do you propose? Bear in mind all the work and resources that go into making a race."
"People have wanted Viera for years right? I think it's finally time we gave our fans what they want."
"Okay, sounds good. We can ju-"
"But cut them in half."
"What?"
"Yeah, just like, don't make the men."
"But for what reason?"
"Surely there's nobody who wants to play as a male rabbit right? We should put our resources into things people actually want, like more Eureka. Also I made an offhand statement like five years ago saying I thought they were cute. I need to keep up appearances you know."
"Well, alright... But what about the people who play male characters? Surely they'd want something? You know how well the gender-locks went last time we tried that."
"How about we just pull a random race from an old game and slap it on? People love nostalgia."
"Okay that sounds reasonable. Any ideas?"
"I dunno. Let's just do Ronso."
"You mean the buff cat people? Who resemble a race we already have that's barely used?"
"Yeah sure. People love cats. It's not like we have any other ideas for males right? Also let's keep our fans in suspense and announce the genderlock in the one community that doesn't like muscular races."

[xbahax92]

The FanFest better comes fast... Comments get larger and larger... Imagination of male Viera start to get absurd. This thread needs a break - or me actually trying to catch up to comments. @_@

[redcurrant18]

Had to do a little bit more research to look up the business concerning the cloak and the armor piece that have been added to Eureka. The leaker behind this one seems...weird. Their actions do not make sense, after leaking info from one company, they state their new workplace-so they can be fired from there as well? Them calling people stupid also was a bad look for them, and they left out information like the Ozma mount and other things that players would have wanted to know about. They certainly were not all powerful or in loop with most of what is actually going on in development.

They go on to talk about dancer and the tower as well. Right now although I’d love to see dancer, there’s not a lot to go off to hint at that job. Chemist, geomancer, or even beastmaster as a limited job all still have an equal chance of being added as dancer does.

As for the tower, I’m not sure how they mean to include it seeing as how it was a really old raid. That tower from what I remember was used to gather energy along with Dalamund to create a portal to the void for the Cloud of Darkness, and then a cat with Allagan blood sealed himself within. People say that one of the characters in an artwork is this same cat, but his gear resemble one of the AFs that were teased in Paris, which I assumed to belong to Samurai. Until the next patch drops in March, there’s no way to know what will happen with this information. They reveal so much yet choose to not say anything about the story within Shadowbringers itself...why restrain yourself when you’ve already shared so much? I’d rather not revisit the tower, and seeing as how we’ve been to Dalmasca, it would make sense for the warrior of light to continue their journey to Garlemald from there or Ala Migho, encountering Viera along the way as they pass through the Greatwood, where both genders live.

My position has always been that male and female Viera need to be added first as a complete race, and that I’d love for other races to be added later on with both genders as well. I do not consider gender locked races complete, since in FFXIV they would be outliers as opposed to a game like Tactics. That being said, if they do mess this up, I’m not afraid to call them out on their sexism and blatant disregard of what their players have been asking for after so many years if they mess this up. Male bunnies are too feminine? Too cute? Too much of a gimmick? Anyone could say the same thing about male cats, female roegadyn, and the entirety of the lalafell race. Are male bunnies too gay for them to make? Does the thought of drawing them gross the artists out? Are the developers going back on everything they’ve done up till now? To me saying “You look/act too ridiculous to be included with us“ just screams homophobia or some other prejudice. I hope they’re ready for whatever storm comes their way if that person’s leaks turn out to be true.

[RoroCookies]

Because characters like this:


Is such a huge gamble and 'weird'. Yet bara male miqo'te somehow is the better and safer option.
Oh and these characters are from a mobile game called Dragalia Lost.
Sorry if the images are large. I can't find how to spoil them. If anyone knows do tell, I'll edit my post right away.

[Kupocoubo]

Because characters like this:

Oh. My. God.

Im in love.

[BillyKaplan]

And it's not like they're that different from what people can already do in the game with male Miqo'te

[Shippuu]

God forbid SE want to add something that isn't "human with animal ears/horns taped on." Most MMO's have at least one playable beast/monstrous type race, I could easily see Yoshida wanting to incorporate something like that into the game if he wants to.

There is certainly a median they can find between full on playable beastman but not pretty human with animal ears. Something like Bless' Pantera come to mind that are certainly different enough from miqote but still human enough to not be extra work getting armor to fit.

[Crushnight]

God forbid SE want to add something that isn't "human with animal ears/horns taped on." Most MMO's have at least one playable beast/monstrous type race, I could easily see Yoshida wanting to incorporate something like that into the game if he wants to.

So why men only get the more bestial race females can be too just the same as men can be cute that is backassward thinking