Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[Tanker4444]

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.

Don´t forget the other side to this, they likely believe that for all the resources they would have to sink into making make viera and female hrothgar, they would be as rare as femroes so why bother and "waste" resources.

[Chained_Icarus]

Never going to happen. I know you people don't care but the in game lore doesn't support it.

Doesn't support Miqo or Duskwright Elezen either. Good thing we're getting our lore friendly Regalias soon too!

[Aomine1992]

I 100% agree with you. I hate it when male and female roles are forced this way. Unless those unique character customization features let me make a Hrothgar that is feminine, and beautiful as a male, I will not like this.

Yea agrees I wanted a sleek cute male viera lol they can keep the hrothgar. I think they have typically forgotten that not everyone is the same way when it comes to this concept. Some want hrothgar but others want a more feminine look. Oh well lol guess I'll just switch to female since thats the gender to be at this point between the ugly male hair styles and glamour and soon to be race.

[Corue]

Never going to happen. I know you people don't care but the in game lore doesn't support it.

Yeah, uh... *rolls male Miqo'te* Like I'm all for *walks through Ishgard as an Au Ra* playable male Viera *has more than one WHM in a party* and everything *runs through Ul'Dah with BLM equipment*, but the lore *hops into a pocket dimension to kill Kefla and Exdeath* just can't support them *puts on Lightning's clothes* and adding them *summons a Yokai Watch minion* would ruin *queues for Nier: Automata raid* my immersion, you know? *drives away in a Regalia*

[kurweg]

But wasn't the male concept art shown without Yoshi's consent though? I vaguely remember hearing something like this. And even if he gave his approval of showing it, concept art is just that: concept art.

[iDovahBear]

imagine quitting a game over cosmetics

Imagine being a Dev team primarily fueled by a cosmetics microtransaction store alongside the recurring subscriptions (composed of half-hearted players and enthusiasts alike,) when suddenly a sizable chunk falls out of each of your residual incomes due to disillusioned players cancelling their subs until ShB and the post-ShB Fantasia purchases not reaching the same peak in sales it would have with more options (the very same ones a sizable chunk of the Community was anticipating but no longer requires Fantasia for because you killed these options in their crib.)

Not that it's a true citation, but when you look at most online games, anthromorphic beast creatures generally take up such a small percent of created characters.

No matter how petty their argument, no matter how much you try to gas light their opinions and the way they're trying to use what means they have as leverage, you have to admit this was a poor decision from a business standpoint.

And Square Enix is first and foremost a business trying to make money. Seems to me they've done a poor job setting themselves up for that this expansion.

[Physic]

Imagine being a Dev team primarily fueled by a cosmetics microtransaction store alongside the recurring subscriptions (composed of half-hearted players and enthusiasts alike,) when suddenly a sizable chunk falls out of each of your residual incomes due to disillusioned players cancelling their subs until ShB and the post-ShB Fantasia purchases not reaching the same peak in sales it would have with more options (the very same ones a sizable chunk of the Community was anticipating but no longer requires Fantasia for because you killed these options in their crib.)

Not that it's a true citation, but when you look at most online games, anthromorphic beast creatures generally take up such a small percent of created characters.

No matter how petty their argument, no matter how much you try to gas light their opinions and the way they're trying to use what means they have as leverage, you have to admit this was a poor decision from a business standpoint.

And Square Enix is first and foremost a business trying to make money. Seems to me they've done a poor job setting themselves up for that this expansion.

they made female vierra for the business, they made male hrothgar to expand the fantasical elements of the world.

Also, to be successful you tend to have to straddle the line between overtly commercial and underground realness. You go too far in one direction or the other you start to lose people. The game already has a rep for being a little to gratuitous with the prettified/cute commercial crowd.

[whiskeybravo]

Good riddance to shallow minds.

[SieyaM]

So is everyone here also happy with the way Blue mage turned our? Or how about Diadem, or Eureka? What if they just decided to start handing out UCoB weapons to people as veteran rewards for time subbed? What decision will it be for you when you finally take off the blinders and start asking the developers what they were thinking?

[Imuka]

Yeah, uh... *rolls male Miqo'te* Like I'm all for *walks through Ishgard as an Au Ra* playable male Viera *has more than one WHM in a party* and everything *runs through Ul'Dah with BLM equipment*, but the lore *hops into a pocket dimension to kill Kefla and Exdeath* just can't support them *puts on Lightning's clothes* and adding them *summons a Yokai Watch minion* would ruin *queues for Nier: Automata raid* my immersion, you know? *drives away in a Regalia*

Wait! WAIT! You forgot your Motorcycle!