Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Strika23]

/Signed for both gender locked races.

[ArcaneCarbuncle]

Signed, but can we not have the Hrothgar slouched over?

To be fair, they'll likely get a bunch of /cposes just as every other race, maybe one of those will be less hunched over?

[Lazariah]

To the Dev team: I may not fully understand why you did not make male and female of both races, but I wont question your decision. You made a call you clearly felt you needed to make and I respect that. However, I would like for you to consider adding in male Viera and female Hrothgar in the future. I have always been against gender locking races since I started playing MMOs. Here are a few reasons why:

1: It is to a degree unfair to the playerbase. Here is this wonderful race, fresh out of the design box, new animations and hairstyles and...oh wait you can only play it as female (just for example). If you only feel comfortable playing male characters, this is a huge disappointment. You've been marketed a new race. The devs show promotional materials and get you excited only for you to not be able to play it due to gender. It feels wrong and disheartening. The next question is why? Why can't I be this race? Then frustration sets in. Now what should be an exciting reveal for everyone is unfortunately tainted. I know I felt my hype deflate when I found out this news.

2: Variety. I have and always will be a huge fan of variety. It is the spice of life and in MMOs it's what sets one game apart from the next. What are the first two things people want to know when they look to play an MMO? What classes can I play and what races. If any of those are hindered based upon gender, you end up alienating a huge portion of the fanbase. When we first learned about Viera and there were speculations on Hrothgar, I knew what I wanted most of all in the next expansion was to be torn between playing a female Viera, male Viera, or a female Hrothgar. I wanted to have to make those decisions so badly. To me, the mark of a great game is having so many good options you almost don't know where to start. FFXIV does that well in so many aspects that I hope we will eventually see male Viera and female Hrothgar.

3: Personal Fantasy. MMOs for many are about creating your own personal fantasy. Whether your character is an extension of yourself or your own hero you like to see succeed everyone wants their character to look a certain way. Hrothgar for instance gives a great option for people who want to be cat people but more burly then Miqo'te. Viera is perfect for people who want to be tall and lean and beautiful but not Elezen. I understand that one would think more common fantasies would be the tall beautiful bunny woman and the large muscular lion man but we all know how varied the FFXIV fanbase is. There are many who want to be tall pretty bunny men and muscular lionesses. Of course I have no data on such things but perhaps it is a good idea for SE to gather data on it.

Thank you for your time. I do want to thank you very much for Viera and Hrothgar. I think they look wonderful and cannot wait to see them in game. Take care and make sure Yosh-P gets some sleep.

[Qurho]

I just wanted to add my support to this thread! I've wanted a less human race in FF14 for so long! So long!! And while I'm still excited for the Hrothgar we're getting... that they're men-only is disappointing. I mean, I still have a lady alt character I play regularly, and she's cute! But that's the thing! All the female races... are cute in some manner, haha. Sometimes you want to be beastly and cool, you know?? And also sometimes still be able to wear the skirts and whatnot you can't wear on your main.

[RikkCavalier]

I've been showing my support for no gender locked races in general--not just Hrothgar--by posting every day in the Gender Locked Race? thread. I'm posting here as well to give my tenacious support.

[Nymians]

I would be excited to see female Hrothgar in game! I was sad to see not only male Viera but very disappointed in the fact that there was no female counterpart for a really beast like race like Hrothgar.

[Brunus]

+1 vote for supporte female Hrothgar in canon!

[MKistulot]

I agree with the original poster.

Realm Reborn got rid of gender lockouts.

Why start now?

[Dev2021]

Personally I they female Hrothgars would be sexy and interesting to see. Plus like i said in support of the male Viera, gender locks shouldn't be a thing for a game I'm paying a sub for. I really wanted to see how the male Viera would look and I wanted to FINALLY change up my character. Back to the point though, NO GENDER LOCKS. We are better than this guys.

[Kogasan]

As I stated in the Male viera thread please SE keep the viera and hrothgar genderlocked I feel it gives those races more uniqueness that way.