What is the benefit

[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.