Yoshida, from an interview in 2013

[SargentToughie]

https://www.siliconera.com/2013/02/2...jg8o6pCcXIo.99

I'm literally just stealing this from Reddit, but I think this is something that needs to be posted here, too.

[Jonnycbad]

People change their minds and opinions over time.

[Risvertasashi]

People change their minds and opinions over time.

doesn't look like he did here.

[Rastaban]

yes but in fan fest and the other fan fest we all asked for the race and he could just say no ther will be no male viera he turned his bac and didnt answer realy and fooled the community with some word games, there is no clear information always look forward to it

[Cetonis]

yes but in fan fest and the other fan fest we all asked for the race and he could just say no ther will be no male viera he turned his bac and didnt answer realy and fooled the community with some word games, there is no clear information always look forward to it

Because if they said no male Viera at the last fanfest, the coming introduction of a male-only race would have been too telegraphed, leaks aside. Instead he said to read the in-game lore, which straight-up says that anyone expecting to encounter a male Viera is going to be disappointed.

[zegota]

"having a rabbit male might be kind of weird"

Uh huh. Why is that? What makes female rabbit people less "weird?" I'm all ears (hehh hehhhh).

It's definitely not that the sexy, scantily clad race should be women only, right? I'm sure there's another reason that male bunnies are "weird?"

[Beetle]

1st Male Viera.

[Shougun]

Same thing happened with blue mage, technically that mini-game concept was a very long time ago concept too.

[heynowjose]

can we discuss just how backwards, sexist and borderline problematic this statement is?

What would be "kind of weird" about a male rabbit? Like truly truly how is that any more or less weird than cat bois, girl roes??? Furhtermore, so because one man thinks it's "kind of weird" to have male tall slender rabit eared race no one gets them? Get that kind of thinking the hell away from me. I really thought Yoshida was better than this

[WhiteArchmage]

Where is that quote about player housing being separate from FC housing? Or the one about there being no demolitions for housing? I'm sure it was one of those things Yoshi-P said and didn't budge on, no matter how much the community protested, huh...