Gender locked race?

[Saix027]

People claiming it to be sexist truly only lives in the moment and does not look into every other non-sexist stuff the game has.

Putting out 2 unique races with a gender lock each in the midst of 6 other playable non-gender locked races is not sexism.

I can understand the disappointment, however, of wanting male viera or female hrothgar, but calling it sexism is dumb.

I, for one, can appreciate SE going down the route to establish how rare Viera males are in their game world and lore to the point they don't want player interference to change that. They did once, and they have taken a turn on it again.

You mean like Mi'qote are suppsoed to be rare also. Sorry, but this is a lame excuse, explain this also to Au'ra which were new and from another land and suddenly we had them as starter race aswell, explain that lore wise also, stop defending them for such lame excuses.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

You mean like Mi'qote are suppsoed to be rare also. Sorry, but this is a lame excuse, explain this also to Au'ra which were new and from another land and suddenly we had them as starter race aswell, explain that lore wise also, stop defending them for such lame excuses.

I have said it many times other places, Miqo'te lore and Viera are different, Miqp'te lore still leaves it to where males can become adventures and roam around, Viera clearly does not. Also if, lets say M/F ratio for Miqo is 3/7 then Viera would be 1/9

[Raiu]

You mean like Mi'qote are suppsoed to be rare also. Sorry, but this is a lame excuse, explain this also to Au'ra which were new and from another land and suddenly we had them as starter race aswell, explain that lore wise also, stop defending them for such lame excuses.

As said, it was a decision they did in the past to get FFXIV off the ground.

Now that the game is popular, they are most likely wanting to go back how they see their world, and want to go back to gender locking Viera because it makes sense.

Au Ra is not remotely close to a gender lock situation, and their idea is being a rare sight, just like miqo'te male. They exist, and it might be something SE regrets.

However, just because the vase has cracks in it here and there, it does not mean you need to take a hammer and make more cracks into it.

Gender locked Viera is most likely SE's attempt at making the Viera race believable, following the source material from the other game it comes from -- that being, males are almost non-existent and mythical, but they do exist, and they want to adhere to that in their game world, by not giving people the option to create a Viera male, and destroy that illusion and myth.

They might take even more liberties like this in the future, who knows.

[Crushnight]

Now that the anger of being led on and before anyone says anything at Paris Yoshi could've said that male Viera was not going to be playable by deliberately dodging questions he led people on this is where my anger is, has finally started going away i'm just so disappointed a single male Viera coming out he forest is no less lore breaking than a Hrothgar entering Ul'Dah or Gridania without being detained/attacked/interrogated. The lore excuse is hiding the real reason and it saddens me that they are hiding behind this mask, they will not get anything out of me besides the expansion an monthly sub and depending how the gameplay features of 5.0 will determine if i stay playing.

I am hugely against gender locks of this kind and seeing ffxiv a game i have spent 6+ with go this route has upset me and made me more fearful of its future as now i am worried they will add a gender locked jobs

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Now that the anger of being led on and before anyone says anything at Paris Yoshi could've said that male Viera was not going to be playable by deliberately dodging questions he led people on this is where my anger is, has finally started going away i'm just so disappointed a single male Viera coming out he forest is no less lore breaking than a Hrothgar entering Ul'Dah or Gridania without being detained/attacked/interrogated. The lore excuse is hiding the real reason and it saddens me that they are hiding behind this mask, they will not get anything out of me besides the expansion an monthly sub and depending how the gameplay features of 5.0 will determine if i stay playing.

I am hugely against gender locks of this kind and seeing ffxiv a game i have spent 6+ with go this route has upset me and made me more fearful of its future as now i am worried they will add a gender locked jobs

your worry is unfounded honestly. The game will be fine, the world is not ending.

[Crushnight]

your worry is unfounded honestly. The game will be fine, the world is not ending.

i wish i could believe you but after the limited job concept and now this my faith that they won't do it is really low.