Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[Senliten]

Well this is the same nonsensical lore nonsense that people have been spewing here for pages. It makes as much sense for there to be male Keepers and Duskwight Elezen as it does male Viera, all of them are incredibly rare when it comes to lore and it makes no sense lorewise for there to be running thousands of player characters playing as them. Why is male Viera different now all of a sudden? Gender politics don't even need to be taken into account to see that there is a problem, we haven't had gender locked races since 1.0, why is it okay now?

You do remember that during one of the lore sessions they did state that all those others are just mere adventurers right? As in they walked off the beaten path of the racial norm? Given there is only one Warrior of Light and all that

Male Viera is also a creation of FF12, Respect and wishes of the FF12 team were taken into consideration clearly with this during Ivalice's creation in 14. Which once again, if anyone were to create a male Viera, it should be them. (The FF12 team)

Also lore wise, they have their reason, but it can easily be a guise for developmental reasons. And of course, SE love to keep with the fantasy aspect for why and not say 'because we have not many people on our team', do you know the possible outrage that would occur if they said it was due to 'development'? Would be a bloodbath

[Sheriyana]

You do remember that during one of the lore sessions they did state that all those others are just mere adventurers right? As in they walked off the beaten path of the racial norm? Given there is only one Warrior of Light and all that

Male Viera is also a creation of FF12, Respect and wishes of the FF12 team were taken into consideration clearly with this during Ivalice's creation in 14. Which once again, if anyone were to create a male Viera, it should be them.

What does it matter if they're just "mere adventurers"? Adventurer isn't a race, and a representative of a race being an adventurer still means that there's more of that race in the world, which in turn contradicts the lore.

And yeah, I would have been a little more understanding if they had actually made it a point that was why they chose not to add them, instead of you know, just saying nothing, ignoring that they exist and pretending that a gender locked race is nothing new and no problem at all. Also there's a lot of people from the FFXII team actually working on XIV, and we literally just had Matsuno, the creator of Ivalice designing a whole raid series for us, I'm sure Yoshida could have asked for his blessing any time during the development. And well considering it was in the series Matsuno created for us in XIV that he decided to add all that male Viera lore into this game, clearly confirming not only that they exist in general but on Hydaelyn as well.