Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[Kaelah]

I'm surprised at them gender locking a race after the uproar it caused with Miqo'te and Roe. It's not worth quitting the game over however imo. You must like your current avatars, no? You don't like male Hrothgar or female Veira? Don't play them. You never know, they might end up patching in the opposite gender later like they did with Miqo/Roe anyways. (Unless the lore states the opposite gender does not exist, that would be awkward.)

[manickitty]

I'm surprised at them gender locking a race after the uproar it caused with Miqo'te and Roe. It's not worth quitting the game over however imo. You must like your current avatars, no? You don't like male Hrothgar or female Veira? Don't play them. You never know, they might end up patching in the opposite gender later like they did with Miqo/Roe anyways. (Unless the lore states the opposite gender does not exist, that would be awkward.)

The lore emphatically states they exist, just that they are rarely seen... kinda exactly the same situation as male miqo.

[VillainQueen]

Let me just say I'm a female myself and wanted to change into a pretty bunny boy. If male players play females and dress them into next to nothing why can't we do the same? But apparently they care more to pander to the furries than to those who wanted a bishounen bunny race. And I'm not claiming any political outrage here, I just think that overall male Viera would have been more popular than what we got. I am disappointed and my hype for Shadowbringers is gone, this and the lack of a new healer job? Sorry but what are you doing SE?

[BiddyBatnana]

Well thanks I guess, reducing the queue at release.

[Leomoon]

wooow. this isn't an SJW issue. This is, at the WORST a false advertising issue, and at best a VERY skeezy, shady 'hide the facts as long as we possibly can so people maintain the hype for things' issue. They went out of their way to hide males, despite including them in lore. To disregard females despite their blatant existence in FFX. This isn't a social justice issue, this is a 'literally why in god's name did you think it was ok to mislead people this way' issue. ..also no healers. 4 years no healers. it'll be at 6 years before we healers will see another chance at maybe having a new option.

Se Never said there would be a male version. It was all fan hype that did that.

[NeroV1]

wow...nice...

Lol didn't have anything better to do with their time.

[Listrella]

you're unsubbing cos of a genderlock? seriously? the races are just a small part of this expansion, what about the raids? the story? the dungeons? you're going to miss out on all that cos you don't like you can't play male viera?

[Kallera]

I mean, Yoshi went out of his way to NOT confirm Male Viera at any point, so to deem it false advertising is, at the WORST, a stretch and at best a VERY big stretch.

Not near as much of a stretch as you might think:

Yoshi-P has a tradition of spoiling reveals based on the outfit he's wearing each day at fanfest. When they announced a new race was coming he turned around and pointed to the back of his t-shirt which had a clear Bugs Bunny on the back as the 'hint'. Unless he's going wildly off base and trying to troll people, it's Viera.

Bugs Bunny is a male character.

Now, people didn’t start asking questions until we saw the lack of male viera in the reveal, but that was mainly because people believed that there was no way SE would commit to something so patently bad, that had only downsides. Something they themselves corrected in the lead up to 2.0.

[purgatori]

Why should a male be feminine?

Why shouldn't they? And how is this comment relevant to anything in the thread?

[Leomoon]

you're unsubbing cos of a genderlock? seriously? the races are just a small part of this expansion, what about the raids? the story? the dungeons? you're going to miss out on all that cos you don't like you can't play male viera?

this is honestly what I don't get about these people saying they are going to unsub because of this. This is such a small part of the game yet you are going to protest it? It isn't like they are removing content or a class or anything.