Gender locked race?

[Roda]

Nothing concrete of course, but I think we just have to chill until Tokyo fest.

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What's that?
Never heard of it.

[Shougun]

Hahahahaha.
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What's that?
Never heard of it.

Play this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lfiTebewnc 92 times and we'll all know what the race is going to be .

Plz no sue for mental damages :3

[Shippuu]

I won’t give him money if he doesn’t make the decisions that I agree with. All his power comes from us who play this game, not the other way around. I’ve taken hiatus from this game before and if he for some reason screws up male Viera then he can kiss my sub money goodbye for a few months until he adds them. I do not pay for incomplete games or games which break their promises.

Then speak with your dollar. If such a thing is a deal breaker for you than go, if enough people do I'm sure they might consider fixing it. But I will be honest and admit that I don't think enough would share your conviction to make any kind of serious dent. People will threaten to and ultimately not do it, or come back eventually.

He also never promised male viera so it's not a promise he'd be breaking.

[Roda]

I think it's more the promise made with the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 where they wouldn't do that whole genderlocking thing anymore...

[redcurrant18]

I think it's more the promise made with the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 where they wouldn't do that whole genderlocking thing anymore...

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

[Metsonm]

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

To be fair, I don't know exactly how WoW deals with their races and gear and such, it could be a lot simpler for them and their system or art style, for example.

[Daralii]

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

The fact that all but one of them are very obviously rushed and are mostly palette swaps, with the one that has a new skeleton just being fat people that have one face per gender.

[Roda]

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

Well ok to be absolutely fair, calling them "new races" isn't really accurate.
The Kul Tiran humans would count, as well as maybe the Zandalari trolls. But all of the other allied races are just old races with new textures, faces hairs, and voices. The animations and bodies are identical to their old counterparts (and those two are typically the most time consuming things to implement, at least when you don't actually have to sculpt much for normal mapping).

Though they did create the Vulpera and Sethrak that ARE basically the same as two new player races, except they made them npc only for some reason.

WOW already at my post limit =.=

Crappy coding and a game based on spaghetti pudding of a code where adding essential features require a massive effort.
This and some archaic Japanese moral codes that working on a silly bunny outfit took years because of the staff feeling uneasy?
Unless the interviews were a lie ofc.

To be fair (again), WoW's code probably isn't that clean either. It's reaching, what, it's 14th year now?
But that story about the devs being too cowardly to put a male character in a bunny suit despite putting a female in one just fine is really freaking sad.

[Riardon]

Exactly. If WoW can spit out 4 or 5 races with both genders during that last expansion of theirs then what on earth prevents FFXIV from doing the same?

Crappy coding and a game based on spaghetti pudding of a code where adding essential features require a massive effort.
This and some archaic Japanese moral codes that working on a silly bunny outfit took years because of the staff feeling uneasy?
Unless the interviews were a lie ofc.

[Shougun]

To be fair, I don't know exactly how WoW deals with their races and gear and such, it could be a lot simpler for them and their system or art style, for example.

It would be a bit more accurate to suggest WoW pumped out a bunch of subraces (FFXIV clans), rather than comparable to FFXIV races. Although it's still neat, if you're into that thing. Like Daralii, and Roda, says a lot of them have minor changes like colors - which simplifies things a lot. The new racials are neat (races in that game have special abilities), if perhaps a bit imbalanced compared to other races lol.

An example might be if they took the Au Ra we have now but add some more demonic options to meet their concept art, perhaps tiny modifications to the female body (or using another race's body) and making it more seductive like some concept art (not as smoll and cute).

Or if they added a Vivi-construct race, which would probably be rather straight forward in terms of customization lol. (using lalafell animations).

I think the new "allied"races is a fun gimmick, so I'm not trying to knock it, but a lot of them are not quite what you might think requires the full work of a new race (a lot of cost effective choices were made for a number of them, not all).