Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[Endeleon]

First off there is a saying: Get Woke Go Broke

There is a reason for this, 95% of the population doesn't give a damn about "progressive" anything. It doesn't set a negative anything. Sexy women sells. Buff masculine men sell. And so this is absolutely wonderful. *goes back to sipping the tears and loving this read*

Well, except for the fact there was a very simple, probably cheaper option for this expansion! Only ONE(you hear it, one!) new race! They could have added both genders of Viera, then next expansion had both genders of Ronso.

Simple. Smart. Cheaper. Easier for devs.

But SE as always, is dumb.

[van_arn]

I too love this game and have played since 2014. However, I refuse to support a gender-locked game. It's not progressive, it sets negative stereotypes and it's not the type of game culture I enjoy.

Yeah, looks like you're reading way more into this than needed.

Look forward to seeing you in early access.

[Ramesses]

I'll be seeing you unsubbers on June 28!

Have a fun trying to play through the trash piles of MMOs on the market and coming back here after realizing how much of a quality effort is put into this game.

Succinctly said. +1

[Ruru_Nayu]

This is hilarious tbh, people getting upset about a female and male only race smh.
And no i don't plan on using a fantasia anytime soon and neither do i care about changing the race of my character, Dancer looks nice and phys ranged needed some love too.
Hope for you healers that they are gonna announce a healer sometime this fanfest, if not it's a big feelsbadman for healer people.
I just care about content.

[Koss_Nottoris]

Well, except for the fact there was a very simple, probably cheaper option for this expansion! Only ONE(you hear it, one!) new race! They could have added both genders of Viera, then next expansion had both genders of Ronso.

Simple. Smart. Cheaper. Easier for devs.

But SE as always, is dumb.

Except its not smart. You want to sell to the broadest margin. If you want to sell a product guess what? You target the majority, the 95% THAT is smart. And most countries in Asia, aka Japan/China/Korea etc give exactly nothing about the SJW agenda, its why so many things made here that try to push it FAIL there. So yeah. This was the smart way to go.

[Endeleon]

Except its not smart. You want to sell to the broadest margin. If you want to sell a product guess what? You target the majority, the 95% THAT is smart. And most countries in Asia, aka Japan/China/Korea etc give exactly nothing about the SJW agenda, its why so many things made here that try to push it FAIL there. So yeah. This was the smart way to go.

All I got to say to this reply is a big ol' freaking YIKES.

[Khalithar]

I won't be unsubbing, I'm not salty nor angry about their design decisions for the expansion as far as the jobs and gender locked races. I'm more surprised than anything else, it's certainly not the direction I would have expected from Yoshida and his team to say the least! Given the audience for this game I fully expected male viera to be announced with a healer job and possibly another dps to make three jobs for the expansion.

There's always the off chance of some surprise announcements to happen during the fanfest, but until then I'm going to sit here being puzzled and more than a little confused.

[SilverPanda]

While I understand that people are upset, I think it's silly to get this upset that you would unsub over Viera getting gender-locked. It's one race there are so many options in the game, I myself would have loved to have the small cute versions. But, I wouldn't unsub over not having it, we can't expect to have all our wants and desires to be added to the game.

[technole]

I'd be more understanding if they didn't stretch lore for not having Ronzo female.

imagine quitting a game over cosmetics

No bare feet, no sub.

[Hyperia]

The biggest thing we need to understand is that while our community is a big part of their revenue, their primary audience is the JP community. The decisions made will sell well to their target audience. They know that they may take some losses outside of JP but they were calculated decisions and they are prepared for the consequences. They knew what they were doing, who and where to announce what information they released. The gender lock issue was addressed in front of the JP community where they would take less blowback from such a decision. In fact, the JP community will most likely accept Yoshi's reasoning that they did it due to lore reasons.