Quote Originally Posted by Arrius View Post
They could've just kept one nice thing as a whole and announce that they got the other nice thing in the back, with a possible plan they get that one done by the next expansion.
I'm sure you know that their plan was to implement Hrothgar only and to use Balthier as the NPC in Ivalice raids, not Fran (so there wouldn't have been any mention of Viera at all). And also, that they were planning on this being the last time they add a new race. So if they go by the original plan, you'd only see Hrothgar and that's it. No potential for Viera at all.

But now that they added female Viera, there is a potential of having the other genders if there's a profitable demand, since it's still part of the same races they already added. The dev team most likely anticipated the backlash, so they chose not to make the genders that would be the least playable ones compared to the opposite gender. But if they see a profitable demand, then they will do it.