Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Yeah I doubt we would just get them (and female Hrothgars) in a normal patch. If we get them it will be for a new expansion. My prediction: If we dont get them with 6.0 we wont get them at all. (Of course Corona can change this all up) With each new expansion there are thousands of new items. I doubt they would take the work and money to included them if we go much further because that would question if they ever get that money back.
This would be my assumption as well. If theyre not revealed around or prior to 6.0, then were probably not getting them. That being said, There are some upsides to consider:

1) The development cycle seems to be slowing down but its not being explained why. I dont mean what with corona and all, but I mean they scaled back on providing dungeons among other things. Even the Nier raids arent generating completely brand new assets from scratch and would free up some development resources. Some of it is probably imported, and the design process is also easier since they have pre-existing IP content to work from. While I wouldnt hold my breath, I honestly do have some optimism that they are working on either completely fixing Viera/Hrothgar OR implementing the off sexes. It would help explain where some of the development time was going.
2) Relic weapons deal with the Hrothgar homeland a lot it seems - Its gonna seem incredibly weird if we keep doing flashbacks and other aspects of it that has zero depictions or interactions with female hrothgar. We kinda got Viera a bit on reveal cause of the Orbonne raids, It doesnt seem to far fetched that they might do a soft reveal that way.
3) Character creation set up is structurally weird. Best way I can describe it is that they purposefully created two separate race categories for Viera and Hrothgar with 'empty' spots for the off sexes. This seems a bit off of a choice from a purely design and aesthetic Point of View. The race selection and the like is merely an organization listing, so they couldve very easily stuck Hrothgar and Viera in the same 'spot' on the list, filling out the male and female roles respectively for a racial selection, to make it clean and organized. Might be a stretch, but possibly they left it as is to give themselves options.
4) Viera were implemented due to 'fan demand'. So long as the off sex demand remains high, it wouldnt be off for them to consider devoting time and energy towards that.
5) There's a lot of lore room they can exploit and explore by creating hte off sexes, which generate interest in the game. It would probably boost sales and pay for itself in time too.


So I remain optimistic that they will come. Ill keep fingers crossed. But if not, well, still got my lalafell here to be happy with. :>