Quote Originally Posted by Shippuu View Post
And yoshida has commented that he didn't really want to show everyone the Viera concept art because of exactly what is happening now.

I'm not saying SE doesn't shoulder some blame for why people are angry about it, but they shouldn't be held hostage just because people are angry about something. In the end it is SE's decision to make, just like it was their decision to make Blue Mage as a limited job even though they knew it would make people angry too. People in this thread continue to grossly overstate the blowback and impact this will cause if it happens.
And it IS our decision to stop supporting a company that doesn't do right by its playerbase. You seem to be under the impression that people are saying that SE's stock will go down further than it did with 1.0 when most are only speaking for themselves. I personally support that if they do something as astoundingly dumb as gender-locking Dancer (which would be even harder to do development-wise since they'd have to block you from using the job if you Fantasia to male, so they'd have to actively be <kupo> to do it), I'll cancel my sub right there and then, not to mention I haven't pre-ordered ShB until Tokyo Fan Fest because I want to know I'm getting my money's worth, be it with Dancer as a playable job and/or male Viera.

But Yoshi-P said... Must we point to Alleo's signature about housing? Which, I may remind, the timer was only instituted after player blowback (And that whole "Personal housing will be separate from FC housing!").
But we can't take the artwork for granted... Well, no but it does point out that they were actively working on it and it's not making a whole bunch of assets from scratch.
But there's no way everyone will like the final design... So since not everyone will be content, then no one should? Even the people who are ok with (what we assume about) the Hrothgar think it's off to have two gender-locked races.

And even if the official forums don't represent the majority of the fanbase, it does represent quite a few. They're talking about this in English Forums, French and Japanese (I don't read German, can't know it it's an issue there, too), on Reddit, on JP Twitter! It may not be the controversy surrounding, say, EA after Star Wars Battlefront II, but it's not as small as you make it out to be.