Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Eloah]

I won't use the "lore" excuse, I'll use the finite resources excuse. Tbh, I didn't even need another race. I was just happy with Viera. Stop wasting their time on this and fix the character creator for the older races and let me make my ultimate bunny waifu.

But how are the resources finite? Not saying they aren't, but the amount of time and effort it probably took to create the Hrothgar could of been used to make male Viera. People even requested another dimorphic race with a cute male when Au ra was announced. If you wanna be a cute Male, your stuck playing lala, but girls have more options, again.

[astraux]

Agreed.

The development team's receptiveness regarding Miqo'te and Roegadyn's genderlocked status in 1.0 gave me hope that they listen to their playerbase's requests on self-expression; I think it's important to be able to present yourself as what you'd like in a game that's inherently a power fantasy. That being said, it just feels a bit tone-deaf to repeat the same mistakes made previously under the guise of lore - male moon Miqo'te are rare in lore yet they flourish in-game because people like to play them. Female Hrothgar and male Viera would have felt like natural additions to the game's environment given the story of 5.0 involving shard-hopping and the like.


While I'm still very excited for Shadowbringers and will play it on release, I hope you can give some consideration to your long-supporting players as well!

[spf1200]

if this is all it takes for you to quit the game I can image you cared that much about it in the first place.

[Rydia_Feymarchian]

As a girl playing this game I am *sad*. So sad. Not only for male viera but also for female hrothgar. Is it so much to ask for a non sexualized (and non lala) female race?

And why genderlocking races *again* after ff11? Didn't you learn?

[Eloah]

Use the 'Gender Locked Race?' thread since it already has over 3k replies.

Can you post a link to it please?

[Lukha]

I can't believe this.

Good job, SE, I'm seriously considering unsubbing for the first time since the 2.0 beta over this. Time and time again we've told you what we think about genderlocking, and then you go and genderlock an entire race, and stick to the decision after over a month of watching people freak out over the possibility on these forums and reddit and in-game chats. If it weren't at the cost of male Viera, I'd honestly be happy for the people who wanted Hrothgar also, but getting them instead of male Viera, and not getting female Hrothgar, is absolutely unacceptable, lazy on the dev side and hilariously stupid on the marketing and PR side.

I was planning to go for a physical CE for the first time, but something held me back, and I'm honestly really glad I waited. I haven't pre-ordered any version of the game as of now, and I really don't know if I will. I play on both PC and PS4, so that's two sales lost.

I've been a faithful fan of Square Enix through decades of delayed games and bad business decisions, but this might just be the last straw for me.

[Kyuuen]

Can you post a link to it please?

Here ya go:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...er-locked-race

[kijukitten]

how is it homophobic? it sounds like you are, the hrothgar could all be gay for all you know. but because they arnt bunny eared twinks you think its misrepresentation

[Canadane]

Where do I post to show my support where "I'm fine with it as is?" opinion?

[Lukha]

Use the 'Gender Locked Race?' thread since it already has over 3k replies.

The problem with that is that the OP of that thread doesn't explicitly support the addition of male Viera as a playable race, so in general people have not been liking the first post. In order to get attention from the community team, ideally you would have a lot of posts/views and many likes on the relevant post showing support for the request.