So, realistically and logically....

[MPNZ]

.... Isn't it like way more likely that they didn't have the time or resources to fix/fine-tune job, add and balance new jobs, and complete working models for the opposite sexes for the new races and instead relied on reusing older assets from previous titles and teams....

Like, why does no one seem to remember just like how messed up some of the jobs were in HW and just how unhappy players were about the new mechanics and abilities were. Seriously, this whole thing is like nothing new, and obviously will totally get to fixing it later like bard. They totally hear everyone, ok

[craybest]

making a whole new second genderlocked race is much more work than simply adding the other gender to a race alreayd in developpement. they now have to create double the lore, double the everything.

[MikkoAkure]

Another likely cause is that viera were created by Matsuno, used by him for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy XII, and the rest of the subsequent Ivalice Alliance games, before he wrote one into his Final Fantasy XIV scenario. Players have been clamoring to play viera and Matsuno allows it under the caveat that they don't use male viera since that's his artistic decision. SE goes ahead and implements them, along with male only beast-race to balance it out since players had also asked for that when we were polled back in the day.

[DarkMasamune]

Another likely cause is that viera were created by Matsuno, used by him for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy XII, and the rest of the subsequent Ivalice Alliance games, before he wrote one into his Final Fantasy XIV scenario. Players have been clamoring to play viera and Matsuno allows it under the caveat that they don't use male viera since that's his artistic decision. SE goes ahead and implements them, along with male only beast-race to balance it out since players had also asked for that when we were polled back in the day.

I didn't think about it that way, but it seems way more logical.
It explains why there are no male vieras. Even thought they exist in the lore of FFXII, they are never actually seen. Maybe because they didn't want them to be seen in the first place, even if they DO exist.

[redcurrant18]

I'm sorry but I don't have any respect or care about Matsuno's backwards opinion. This is not his game.

[cicatriz313]

I'm sorry but I don't have any respect or care about Matsuno's backwards opinion. This is not his game.

Viera is his lol. What a silly comment.

[Lihtleita]

Another likely cause is that viera were created by Matsuno, used by him for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy XII, and the rest of the subsequent Ivalice Alliance games, before he wrote one into his Final Fantasy XIV scenario. Players have been clamoring to play viera and Matsuno allows it under the caveat that they don't use male viera since that's his artistic decision. SE goes ahead and implements them, along with male only beast-race to balance it out since players had also asked for that when we were polled back in the day.

ok but ronso in ffx had females. why is it that only viera are above tampering with?

[Zsolen]

That's just it. They aren't meant to be a thing we see all the time or possibly even at all. The lore made it obvious we should not have them being playable. It's not just that they are rare. They are hostile (more so than the females) and territorial. It does not make any lore sense to make them playable.

[redcurrant18]

Viera is his lol. What a silly comment.

What's silly is the people white knighting for backwards people like him and being complacent with this awful design choices. I will never respect this ridiculous choice they've made. They should have told him to get lost and done what's right and not gender locked Viera and Hrothgar.

[cicatriz313]

What's silly is the people white knighting for backwards people like him and being complacent with this awful design choices. I will never respect this ridiculous choice they've made. They should have told him to get lost and done what's right and not gender locked Viera and Hrothgar.

I'm not whiteknighting. I'm just calling you out on being ridiculous like always. You're literally saying you don't respect matsuno while saying you're unsubbing because you aren't getting a gender of a race he invented. Like do you not see how bad you look?