Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
Personally, I don't really see why we needed male viera so much more than female hrothgar. It's a novelty. The concept of feminine males was already filled with that addition of male miqo'te, and male miqo'te will still be quite a bit more popular in general. Mooncat male miqo'te even fill that certain* niche or whatever I think was being talked about yesterday.. So, to be frank, female hrothgar would have simply been the better choice. In ever possible aspect. They would have added much more to the game. If a race has to be limited, at least there is some justification with hrothgar - with their high quality animal heads! Male viera just have what looks like glued on ears to me, and just that makes them limited!
The main reason is the obvious one. A large majority of the playerbase asked for it. As sad as it is, again, they know female hrothgar wouldn’t be played nearly as much as male viera. In female hroth’s case it would be a waste of resources right now to invest in them as opposed to male viera who were both much more popular but also probably easier to make seeing their similarities to the already implemented female viera. So female hroth wouldn’t have been the best choice in the grand scheme of things. I don’t see how feminine males really fits miqote at all. Sure some players can make them look like that but that goes for all races in general. Male miqo in both lore and actual appearance aren’t inherently feminine at all lol. I mean just look at the nunh’s. I disagree with them looking like glued on bunny ears but that’s your opinion. I think they did a really good job considering this is quite literally the first time male viera have ever been created visually. Much better than when they implemented hrothgar which is supposed to be from X yet...they somehow got everything wrong model wise. This isn’t a hit at hrothgar players, love you the most, but looking at X ronso and their stature and seeing what you guys got...i feel for you.