Quote Originally Posted by Zsolen View Post
You say it is lower quality to have genderlock, but I told you why is was the opposite with actual reasoning. Lore. You have to talk about lore, if you want to have a proper counter-argument. These are not the same Viera from Ivalice, but they carry similar lore. If you cannot address that, then you cannot make a proper counter-argument.

We need to do more to help lore, and not bash it in continually. That is a problem this game has from time to time, but it manages it mostly okay overall. It shouldn't be removed, because someone has a political agenda, fetish (despite not knowing what they even look like), or whatever the case is.
No, I really don't need to address lore. Because telling the people that play your game one thing and then doing the exact opposite of that thing years later is a Bad Thing. That's it! Take everything else out the equation. That sentence could be about literally anything in game, but the promise they broke was the one on gender-locking, so that's what's being addressed. If they cared about the promise they made, AND cared about your so-called lore, they wouldn't have made viera playable in the first place.

But if I absolutely must be dragged into talking about lore, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna repeat myself here: according to lore, viera don't live on Hydaelyn. They're from Ivalice. There was no lore reason for them to be here other than the fact that fans wanted them, and the devs said, okay, they can be here now too. If you can disregard that huge lore jump, you can't tell other people that they can't disregard another because it's lore. That's cherrypicking.

Also, male viera have feet. They can walk. They can pull a Fran and skedaddle right out of the woods if they chose too. They're beings with free will. Just because their society has one idea in mind, according to the lore, does not mean every single individual would follow it. That's not how that works. That's not how people work. Female viera leave the forest very rarely as is. Very, very rarely. Really, if they leave in such small numbers, it wouldn't make sense for them to be playable either, would it? And, personally, I think a singular male viera running away from home to see the world is much more believable than an entire race suddenly existing in another world because they're fan favorites.