Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[NovaZephyr]

I finalized my settings on the forums, so that I could show support for male viera and female hrothgar. I don't believe that gender locking a race, has any place in FFXIV at this point, especially after Yoshi P was the one that said it was silly, back when Roe's and Miqote's were unlocked for their missing genders. I realize it was probably not entirely his decision to lock the genders, and I do hope we will get the other genders sometime during ShB. I would enjoy having a female buffcat, personally. Roe isn't quite what I'm looking for. I started playing as Miqote, and then switched to Au Ra on my main. Both are a bit too small, but have character features that I enjoy using in a fantasy setting.

[Plasma711]

I'm all for it. More customization, more the merrier.

[dredRand]

Lore is no longer an excuse. We have a Nier raid coming soon, you can drive a Regalia around, you have other unlocked races that were originally gender locked but was later decided against. It would be extremely easy to explain male Viera as such: they may hide away on our world, but in this one, they don't. It's already confirmed all the worlds started from one single point but went on to develop differently. I realize that its difficult to create new races, especially with the need to go back and work on all of the old gear. However, the players wanted Viera as a full race, now we have Hrothgar... Now people want full races of both, rather than just the one. If lore is still the excuse, the Hrothgar make even less sense as female Ronso do, in game, exist. I appreciate the hard work of the dev team, I truly do, but I wish they had been up front with us about the situation, rather than dangling hope in front of us- and they did. I hope they consider adding both male Viera and female Hrothgar. I'm sure it feels like the community demands a lot, but I, and I'm sure many others, were nervous but truly didn't think they would go back to gender locking like in 1.0. Here's hoping both genders come later down the line.

[drashrock]

Im fine with the gender lock. It adds a uniqueness to them, sets them apart from other races. Personally, i also feel there's enough feminine or cute males as is and am ok with no male viera. While it'd be nice to have another masculine female, i can see the need to counter balance a female-locked race with a male locked one, and female hrothgar isnt something i'd play anyways, so im not miffed.

[Kyousha]

Just re-subbed a few days ago and it finally let me back on the forums today so I can post. x_x

This definitely has my vote. SE teased us a lot with fan art of both male and female Viera (even if one of those circumstances was for april fools, I forget), and so I was looking forward to making a male Viera once the race was officially announced for FFXIV. The Hrothgar have no appeal to me, a male gamer... So if I changed my race, I'm limited to only female Viera. I could easily just play a female Viera, but I've never played female before, and it would throw me off for a while, lol. It's definitely out of my norm.

As far as lore, one of my long-time friends from this game pitched ideas proving that they could circumvent that in NNNUUUMEROUS ways. I really like the thought of, "a whisper of the wood hearing the call of Hydaelyn" idea very appealing. Male Vieras DO EXIST in lore, though. Don't say otherwise. This is also what is upsetting a lot of the fanbase.

In any case, this is clearly causing one of the biggest uproars I've seen since 1.0... Square Enix, y'all need to stop ignoring the fanbase YET AGAIN. You PROMISED to never gender-lock a race since 2.0 came out. So the decision to do so again is not boding well for you whatsoever, and you're LOSING your fanbase. According to numbers I've seen from the OP's likes as of an hour ago, among other threads and topics on other websites, only a VERY miniscule amount of people are happy about the race/gender issue... I'm going to say less than 10% to give myself a safe ballpark range, since I don't see an opposing source as official as this thread can get.

[sinnum]

Hello,

I'm just a normal player that was really hoping we'd get male Viera, preferably the tall, slightly muscular ones like the concept art. I personally don't care that Viera were female only in previous games because the devs and storytellers can always adapt the lore of FFXIV for it to make sense. I'm still hoping that the devs will add male Viera in the future as a playable race.

As for Hrothgar, them being added doesn't bother me at all. Some people like them, and that's giving them an option to play a character they'd like. I'd like to see female Hrothgar as well, because there are people out there who'd like to play that too, and I'd like them to have that option as well.

[manickitty]

As long as the lore for both races is changed in a way that allows the presence of the other gender to make sense, I'm totally down for removing the gender-lock.

Lore doesn’t need to be changed. It’s just the vocal minority using it as an excuse when it’s a debunked reason.

Miqote males are just as rare as viera yet there are thousands running around. Ronso females are absolutely a thing.

[Repliku]

Lore doesn’t need to be changed. It’s just the vocal minority using it as an excuse when it’s a debunked reason.

Miqote males are just as rare as viera yet there are thousands running around. Ronso females are absolutely a thing.

Miqote males are an original concept from FF14, Vieras aren't, that's the biggest difference. FF14 can retcon FF14 all they want, not FFT and FF12.
Also they didn't call them Ronsos for a reason : they aren't ronsos.
And finally, needless to say, but "muh vocal minority" isn't an argument. In the sea of people who don't give a damn, you're also part of a "vocal minority".

[HealerMagi]

Miqote are just repainted Mithra though, and they, like the Viera, where genderlocked. Ungenderlocking the Viera for FFXIV would be no different from what happened with the Miqote.

[Kyousha]

Miqote are just repainted Mithra though, and they, like the Viera, where genderlocked. Ungenderlocking the Viera for FFXIV would be no different from what happened with the Miqote.

Don't forget Roegadyns... they're repainted Galkas! :O Can say the same about Humes from FFXI.