Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
Probably because there was no fiasco at all. Almost nobody had an issue with it. It was the same selection of races and genders that existed in XI, which also next to nobody had an issue with.
Slightly incorrect, as a from launch veteran of XI, I can confidently say that there was a desire, not a demand but a simple desire, for male Mithra. and we finally got one as an NPC in Wings of the Goddess expansion... and... Fans were *perfectly fine* with the lone male Mithra to stay as an NPC since by the time that the team finally finalized what they looked like, the game was *too big* to add them in to the meta without taking upwards of three years worth of work for animations and gear texturing.

Now I need to repeat this, there was a desire for male mithra, but there wasn't a demand, people thought the idea of having a cat boy to be a novel idea that would be nice to have, but knew that the addition would be a monstrous task and were perfectly content with never getting to play as them.