Gender locked race?

[Fredco191]

You know how they unlocked the Gold Saucer bunny suit..?






are they pranking us?

[Nestama]

Probably just saving release of male viera for JP fan fest.

There's no good reason for that, though. Au Ra were announced with both male and female and SE should know by now that people will complain about gender-locked stuff, which is usually exclusive to glamour. A race? While I have no interest in Viera at all (they look like a Miqo'te-Elezen hybrid with rabbit ears in this game), SE should know that there'd be a much bigger outcry over that.

[Sunwins]

I sincerely hope they don't gender-lock Viera. They have so much creative freedom to fill in the blank that exists when it comes to the males (since they've never existed in a game before), I don't understand why they wouldn't seize it. I just find it so strange that they haven't said a word on whether the men will even exist at all. I will be sincerely disappointed if they don't allow us to make males.

It just seems like such a silly idea to genderlock an entire race.

[Kallera]

I don’t care what “enligtened” platitudes they cough up as an excuse. This is sexist. This is “bunsplaining”, and we are all the poorer for it.

[Corue]

Limited race. Please understand.

[Nedkel]

Can't wait for these to become 75% of the population.

[Hanayumi]

Meh, think it's still too early to tell. They're generally quick to point out these kinds of things right away, no comfirmation means it's still up in the air. More likely they still have something to reveal, male Viera or something else entirely, "please look forward to it."

[Skos]

Meh, think it's still too early to tell. They're generally quick to point out these kinds of things right away, no comfirmation means it's still up in the air. More likely they still have something to reveal, male Viera or something else entirely, "please look forward to it."

It just seems a bit silly you know? A race reveal is generally something highly anticipated that will boost sales.
So why reveal a new race 4 days before pre-orders open but only reveal the females? Why make literally no mention of male Viera in your race reveal video and your art panel where you had a segment about the new race?

Why dance around this issue 4 days before pre-orders open? Because Square wants to keep something to reveal for the Tokyo Fanfest? Do they really have this little content that they need to keep the reveal of a race's GENDER for an entirely different fanfest?

[Saix027]

I sincerely hope they don't gender-lock Viera. They have so much creative freedom to fill in the blank that exists when it comes to the males (since they've never existed in a game before), I don't understand why they wouldn't seize it. I just find it so strange that they haven't said a word on whether the men will even exist at all. I will be sincerely disappointed if they don't allow us to make males.

It just seems like such a silly idea to genderlock an entire race.

They have the freedom after all i say since FFXIV is its own game in the franchise, i mean if you look at FFXI they als had "Miqote", "Rogadyn" which were gender locked, tooked those and made there own in this game, why not make the same with Viera, its another Universe simply, homages and inspiratiosn to the franchise as a whole are ok but give me something new Square, i would had even prefered Bangana as playable race but asian market and there "cute characters", the Viera as shown now in 14 are also less beastly as there originals, same base model as always sadly with just ears anda tail added again basically, the feet are the only example so far.

[Lissandra]

Right now, your only hope is someone submits a question asking about male viera and Yoshida drawing it for the Eorzean Question Time tomorrow.