Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[Anzaman]

Sometimes it's smarter to maintain a status quo. But to a lot of us, disappointments have been piling up and this was the last straw. It's really not that hard a concept.

Reveal new races or reveal none - some people would've been disappointed either way.

[BillyKaplan]

Reveal new races or reveal none - some people would've been disappointed either way.

That's true, but it has nothing to do with your previous point.

[Sclair0]

I'm not unsubbing or anything, but Square will get some fantasia money for me in 6.0 if they end up adding the genders later, and likely more sub money since I like to make alts for different races to level casually.

The no-male Viera no-healer joint announcement has dampened my hype but I'm still pretty excited for Shadowbringers.

[Radacci]

I actually unsubbed earlier today. I have played this since 1.0 and its by far my favorite game, but I just dont like the direction they are going with this expansion and decision.

We've already been down this road before. There were originally three genderlocked races. People voiced their opinions, and we got female Roes, female Highlanders and male Miqo'tes.
The devs said they were done with gender locks. and yet here we are....again...

I honestly will look for any hope to resub, I WANT to play this game. But I just cant agree with this. All it would take is a dev response about time constraints, or some explanation as to why they pulled this.

In the meantime, their silence has been noted.

here's how it is: to make male viera, fem Hroth, they'd need to rework each piece of equipment in the game, to fit their models, which you might have guessed correctly, would take HUGE amount of time and money.
Which they don't want to do, cause lore-wise Viera is a female-only-warrior-society, like Amazones. Just the fact that they added 2 new races, at all, is rather monumental.
Also the devs don't sit around on forum, commenting on posts like you or I lol. so what do you expect? for Yoshi to post a letter, commenting about every decision he makes?
I'm sure they will get plenty of questions about it, during next live letter, and he might talk about it there.

[Andavar]

here's how it is: to make male viera, fem Hroth, they'd need to rework each piece of equipment in the game, to fit their models, which you might have guessed correctly, would take HUGE amount of time and money.

Unfortunately the company brought this upon themselves, This could have been the Viera expansion with the next being Ronso. They instead decided to shoehorn this together by giving us one half of two races and now we're back to 1.0.

Which they don't want to do, cause lore-wise Viera is a female-only-warrior-society, like Amazones.

The company last left us with female and male art in 2015, before announcing Viera in 2018. SE has not said anything about "preserving the amazonian Viera" for three years before hitting us with a genderlock on both Viera and Ronso.

Also the devs don't sit around on forum, commenting on posts like you or I lol. so what do you expect? for Yoshi to post a letter, commenting about every decision he makes?
I'm sure they will get plenty of questions about it, during next live letter, and he might talk about it there.

Yes I believe some sort of video Live letter from Yoshi would be a fantastic time to let us know their plans!
We had one last night, they missed an opportunity.

[Divinemights]

You already know the plan and you are unhappy because it is not the way you want isn’t it? I checked Japanese forum before I post this one. They didn’t complains. If this is not social justice warriors in play. I don’t know what it is. Especially this game allows player marriage (of any gender).

[TaranTatsuuchi]

So hey...out of everyone talking about unsubbing....who here is actually unsubbing?
And if you are unsubbing from the game, does that mean you'll unsub the Forums to?
Because...if you arn't going to play or support the game, then why use its forum?

At this point I think ya'll just enjoy internet fights.

Actually, if someone does unsubscribe from the game they will be unsubscribe from the forms as well...

If I recall correctly, you can no longer login to the forums if your character has not been logged in for 14 days or so.

[Astril]

You already know the plan and you are unhappy because it is not the way you want isn’t it? I checked Japanese forum before I post this one. They didn’t complains. If this is not social justice warriors in play. I don’t know what it is. Especially this game allows player marriage (of any gender).

Actually they do have a thread requesting male viera be added. They don't have outright complaint threads because they tend to be more polite.
I believe we also had to complain in order to be able to have same-sex marriage in the game.

[hasana]

You'll be fine in a few days and you will come back to the game as it is not a game breaking issue.
You had hope to get Male Viera and didn't get one you're sad we all know the feeling but it doesn't affect how the game was before.

[Divinemights]

Actually they do have a thread requesting male viera be added. They don't have outright complaint threads because they tend to be more polite.
I believe we also had to complain in order to be able to have same-sex marriage in the game.

Do you see them threatening to quit like here? It is a merely a “request” thread like their every other thread. They are there to discuss and not acting with mob mentality