What is the benefit

[Penthea]

Lore is the reason? What is so hard to understand about that?

Well ronso/hrothgar are from FFX and in that game the genders were not segregated or hidden in any manner so...basically SE changed the gender based lore for them but did not for viera. Which means lore is a weak argument for genderlocking.

[Vitallian]

I hardly post on the forums at all. But there is NEVER a benefit to doing it at all. It's absurd, and it's one of the reasons why I hate fucking eastern mmo's. I'm on the fence about resubbing atm.

[Nabiri]

Knowing that players don’t like this kind of restriction, I don’t understand why SE would create lore that’s excludes one gender.
This is a different world from FF12, there’s no reason for us not to have lore that is different from that world.
Why create restrictions?
Why write male viera in as rare?

[TsurugiKoutetsu]

I'm more surprised that people who have been playing the game for years are more than willing to quit the entire game over this,i could understand if the story ended up being underwhelming or the fights and class balance weren't great but how do people let bunny boys be the straw that breaks the camels back

[Shinku_Tachi]

I'm more surprised that people who have been playing the game for years are more than willing to quit the entire game over this,i could understand if the story ended up being underwhelming or the fights and class balance weren't great but how do people let bunny boys be the straw that breaks the camels back

I honestly just take people exclaiming "I'm unsubbing" as all talk, because 9/10 that's what it is.

Knowing that players don’t like this kind of restriction, I don’t understand why SE would create lore that’s excludes one gender.
This is a different world from FF12, there’s no reason for us not to have lore that is different from that world.
Why create restrictions?
Why write male viera in as rare?

They're probably going to do something lore wise similar to what they did with Mithra and Galka in FFXI. As long as it has some sort of nice lore payoff, I really don't mind, personally.

[Mirakumi]

The only thing SE could possibly do worse than now is if they have immediately announced that Male Viera / Female Hrothgar exist on April 1st.
Then say its a joke.

Just something that crossed my mind with April approaching.