Gender locked race?

[Demise]

Do you remember the first male viera concept art? I don't think there was anything "cute" about it. Again, I'm all for Viera getting both sexes but a cute male race was never promised lol.

They're hot as hell though lol. Let's be real, viera female is definitely designed to appeal to the male gaze. They're sexy as hell.

I was hoping for a male equivalent designed for the female gaze. Nothing wrong with sexy races when everyone gets something!

As is, kinda sucks and feels like the direction every other shitty Korean mmo goes for. I guess I was hoping ffxiv would be different because of how many women and not just straight men play their game. Ah well.

Still looking forward to SHB, just not going to bother with fantasia.

[Demise]

Just want to point out...lesbian women may/will also fawn over the 'sexy women' Viera, so in this sense SE is not ignoring 'women' - just some women who happen to prefer men. One can't lump all women into one group and say they're being ignored by not having male Viera for them to likewise fawn over.

Yes, that's true. There's definitely gonna be a lot of happy lesbians amongst all the happy guys lol. They are an a+ high quality race if you're attracted to women across the board.

[Jin-]

Ah the good ol' "it doesn't affect me why should I worry about it."



Yikes the subtle homophobia.

Triggered much? I said i don't mind them adding males.
Why it's always your kind of people who spread made-up words.
Phobia means fear and i don't mind nor hate anyone based on their preferences.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

I always assumed Viera were born of the Wood. Like from some giant tree. (Been a while since I played FF12 and FFT obviously). But the fact that they mention males at all is telling. They could secretly do the Rev race for an all male counterpart (which is the lion race everyone is talking about i guess). But i too find it unfair if they exclude males of some kind. In any case my prediction for 5.0 will be: bunny!THOTs. Bunny!THOTs everywhere.

[WaterShield]

Ah the good ol' "it doesn't affect me why should I worry about it."



Yikes the subtle homophobia.

Well. Yeah.

That's because I am judging that person. Who said I wasn't?

Triggered much? I said i don't mind them adding males.
Why it's always your kind of people who spread made-up words.
Phobia means fear and i don't mind nor hate anyone based on their preferences.

Apparently he hates people who don't share his preferences. I think he may be hetero phobic.

This is a 2 way street ya know.

In before he moves onto "What do you mean my kind of people?"

Edit: Apparently things are calming down now. I don't like it when generalizations are used to other someone, because you don't like what someone said, so I got heated too. Sorry about that. Gonna step out so conversation is focused back on the original topic.

[Skos]

Triggered much? I said i don't mind them adding males.
Why it's always your kind of people who spread made-up words.
Phobia means fear and i don't mind nor hate anyone based on their preferences.

I'm having a lot of issues comprehending what this is supposed to be. I'm sorry if what I said came across the wrong way. I just pointed out something that I felt, in the moment, was homophobia as an excuse for not wanting male Viera.
My apologies for that. It wasn't my intention. I have a habit of just blurting out things and I should've properly read your post.

[cicatriz313]

They're hot as hell though lol. Let's be real, viera female is definitely designed to appeal to the male gaze. They're sexy as hell.

I was hoping for a male equivalent designed for the female gaze. Nothing wrong with sexy races when everyone gets something!

As is, kinda sucks and feels like the direction every other shitty Korean mmo goes for. I guess I was hoping ffxiv would be different because of how many women and not just straight men play their game. Ah well.

Still looking forward to SHB, just not going to bother with fantasia.

Ah, I took it as you wanted to be a feminine male bunny aka "cute". Not that you wanted eye candy running around lol. I guess that's another reason to add male Viera.

[Demise]

Ah, I took it as you wanted to be a feminine male bunny aka "cute". Not that you wanted eye candy running around lol. I guess that's another reason to add male Viera.

There was concept art of a sub race called feol around previously that was both cute male and female bunnies, with more feminine males, and I was WHOLE HEARTEDLY in support of that because my god they were cute. And at the end of the day id play cute over eye candy every time lol.

But the existence of feol will probably not be confirmed or denied until Tokyo fan fest so I see no reason to despair about that, especially since the males have been cropped out of the feol concept art lol.

So we have confirmation of the eye candy viera females, and hope for the cuter smaller feol females. And not very likely for the male equivalent of either.

Eye candy viera males with a sun race of cute, more femenine bun boys to choose from... My God that was the dream. I don't think SE shares the dream though. Sad days.

[Skos]

-snip-

I could be wrong about this, I may have dozed off. But during the Art Panel following the Keynote, when Ayumi was talking about Viera concept art she started talking about something "smaller" and was quickly cut off by Yoshida. This probably means nothing but I thought it was kind of funny. I'll try and see if I can find the timestamp.

[AnnaRosa]

Just want to point out...lesbian women may/will also fawn over the 'sexy women' Viera, so in this sense SE is not ignoring 'women' - just some women who happen to prefer men. One can't lump all women into one group and say they're being ignored by not having male Viera for them to likewise fawn over.

Huh oh? not only lesbians are going to play female Viera also am going to play a modestly dressed Viera neck to toe.