Male Viera... Unsubbing for now.

[NatPagle]

The races are genderlocked because the dev team hit a snag with time and resources and could only do one of each race.

This is the real answer here. None of this is about Lore. It's 100% a time/resources debate. As Yoshi P said, each piece of armor in the game has to be remade 2 times now. If they made male Viera and female Hrothgar, they'd have to do it 2 more times. More animations, more everything.

Now, should they have delayed releasing them until they were able to complete the work on both genders for each? Sure, why not. Would people want to wait though? Probably not. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[reivaxe]

This is the real answer here. None of this is about Lore. It's 100% a time/resources debate. As Yoshi P said, each piece of armor in the game has to be remade 2 times now. If they made male Viera and female Hrothgar, they'd have to do it 2 more times. More animations, more everything.

Now, should they have delayed releasing them until they were able to complete the work on both genders for each? Sure, why not. Would people want to wait though? Probably not. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

What many of you don't seem to understand is when they say they can only do 1 new race as they are now that doesn't mean "Well, if you waited longer you coulda done both".

It means that they are only able to make and support 1 new race worth of work moving forward.
So no, if nothing happens to improve their work flow and make this process easier it doesn't matter if it's 5.0 or 7.0 they will not be able to handle more and give us the content we look forward to at the pace we are use to.

Niche for Male Hrothgar is in fact also filled by Roe's, as female Viera is by female Miqote. In this case they shouldnt add any new race since every new race will be just a copy/paste thing.

No it's not -_-