Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Senn]

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Yoshi P said the team was going to look into feedback, and examine the "temperature" of this request in an interview. If we're not vocal, it'll go "cold" for a lack of a better word. Since he said they are willing to look at feedback, I think it's best to be vocal.

We don't know for sure if the dev can or can't do it, but judging by some interviews, it doesn't seem like the genders or even new races are entirely off the table.

Q) As a follow up, is the team considering adding the other gender for these two races in future expansions?

A) Short answer is we haven’t made a decision on that. The reason why we can’t say for sure. We need to optimize our work flow with the existing races and the new ones. After that, perhaps we do the other gender. But we don’t know right now.

We did consider Male Viera instead of adding an extra race, but we tried to take player feedback on adding a more beast like race as well as the strong desire to receive Viera. We did expect strong feedback on the gender lock. It was a tough decision, but we decided to do our best to meet both the player feedback and our development team’s vision. It will be very costly to add a new race or genders. So I won’t say no, but I would not like to set expectations high."
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGezcBuu-mc
text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...8GTvPw4uI/edit

Q) With Viera and Hrothgar being the last new races to be introduced to the game, are there any plans on adding more base customization options to the established races?

A) As long as it doesn't affect the shape of the body or the different faces, and if these are in fact the last races that we are going to be adding, then there is a possibility that we might expand on that customizable element. If the customization involves changing the shape of the face or the body, we would have to address all the different gear that the characters can equip and with the sheer volume of how much gear we have, we would have to go in and manually update. It is quite difficult. Rather than that, we might have to look at it when we cross the bride, but if it is a customization option that significantly changes the shape of the races body, I think we would be better off to tackle the challenge of just introducing a new playable race all together instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cKXuet4SyI at time 6:45. I suggest watching until 8:52 for MTQCapture's commentary. Like me, she thought that Yoshi P's answer made it seem like he didn't entirely close the door on adding male viera/female hrothgar, or adding new races.

If we're talking about how male viera should look, I think that's something the devs should decide. However, I personally prefer something more elegant, handsome, and slim, rather than bulky like highlander. I think an example of elegant, handsome, and slim would be like the high elves from tera online. Essentially, I'd prefer a bishounen type character, with a face similar to miqo'te (just like how the females have a rabbit-like nose).

[official_coconut]

LOL get over it. You aren't the game sorry. People switch all the time. Your complaining in here constantly about it hasn't changed the fact that they are everywhere. We'll just have to wait and see won't we.

I feel like I got screwed out of $40 dollars trying to improve both my characters looks by switching to the new races (and then back) and got let down hard by how limited they were. For me that was a massive investment for a video game that costs quite a lot of money to begin with for the expansion+the sub. I have every right to voice my disappointment over this while you have every right to be happy with something incomplete.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Ok, you believe in that and I respect you.
But I believe if we just forget about it, wait and abandon this post (for example), these things will never change. SE can believe that it is all ok, that we (players) not care about this things and so "why we will change? Nobody cares!". And some people thinks like me.
I know, sometimes people cross the limits, but not everyone. Some people are only here, in this thread. And if they are repeating questions, etc, ok. They are here to make this post alive, to show their suport to it, because they believe that it will help. And if it is anoying you, so ignore them, or simple read another thread.

Nobody is gonna forget. But constantly bombarding the devs with "Male Viera" like the chat did during the last live letter before ShB dropped isn't gonna solve or get anybody what they want.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I feel like I got screwed out of $40 dollars trying to improve both my characters looks by switching to the new races (and then back) and got let down hard by how limited they were. For me that was a massive investment for a video game that costs quite a lot of money to begin with for the expansion+the sub. I have every right to voice my disappointment over this while you have every right to be happy with something incomplete.

Sorry....but what did you spend $40 on?
This sounds like something other then the games expansion.

[official_coconut]

2 fantasias to switch into the new races. 2 to switch back, because I have 2 characters. One was a Hrothgar for a time and the other was a Viera.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

We don't know for sure if the dev can or can't do it, but judging by some interviews, it doesn't seem like the genders or even new races are entirely off the table.

Yes, Ive said this a few times myself already.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

2 fantasias to switch into the new races. 2 to switch back, because I have 2 characters. One was a Hrothgar for a time and the other was a Viera.

So wait....why not just go to Create a new character to look at the options?
Plus there was the Benchmark which you could use to preview everything before the expansion dropped.
ANd Im sure you've been following the news, they said Headpeice options would be limited.

So now Im getting that you kind of jumped in headfirst without knowing anything about both races before you used a potion

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Let me know what to expect so I know whether or not I can have any expectations for customization that is to come. I have wanted transparency and clarity always, not broken products. I still consider the new races as such so no I don't think it's more of an addition, rather than a fix so everything can be up to par with the quality of the other races. None of the other races are missing genders or have such limited hairstyles, so I want that to be fixed.

They have....they said they are making more hair options.
Are you...like ignoring things YoshiP has said?

[Senn]

Yes, Ive said this a few times myself already.

I guess we agree on that then.

Anyway, glad to see we're at 1808 likes now. Hopefully we can get to 2000 and beyond that.

[Arazehl]

This is not a support thread. I would say maybe 25% of it yeah, but the rest is complaining, wondering if they will be tall, short, or in between. Will they have muscles or be more fem. A lot more "yes it is", "no it isn't" back and forth by a handful of the same people. A nice little thumbs up and less groaning at each other would show more support to SE. They don't want to weed through this mess. They already know some want the gender, a long time ago. What are you going to do next when they might say "no"? Fall on the floor and have tantrums?