New player here - why no bunny boi?

[Yma]

Hey all!

I just started playing last week, and have already bit the bullet and bought the expansions up to shadowbringer.

What is the history behind the Viera? It seems so weird to me to have a female only race!

I would love to play a male with bunny ears. A Hrothgar Tigress would have been pretty cool too!

Will there ever be the option to make a male bunny boi?

[Raiya]

C_C Endwalker says "Hello"

[ACE135]

You will be able to play as male Viera when Endwalker releases.

[GDofLevin]

Seriously? Yoshi-P literally told us male Vierra will be available in Endwalker. Do some research before posting here please? Otherwise people will think your trolling or worse and be less kind than others like me.

[Fyrebrand]

Viera were a race that appeared in certain previous Final Fantasy titles -- for example, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy XII. In the lore of those games, Viera were actually a female-only race. How does that work? I honestly don't know, and I don't it was ever explained, but that is at least why male viera were not originally planned for this game. [Edit: I was wrong, male viera do exist in those worlds but they live separately from females] However, it is something enough players have been asking for, so they're coming with the next expansion.

Female hrothgar are something they're planning to bring us some time in the future, but there is no solid timeline yet.

Seriously? Yoshi-P literally told us male Vierra will be available in Endwalker. Do some research before posting here please?

Wow, imagine the audacity of a FFXIV player posting on the game's public forums.

Otherwise people will think your trolling or worse and be less kind than others like me.

"Kind," lol. Sure, buddy. That's what you were being.

[Vahlnir]

Seriously? Yoshi-P literally told us male Vierra will be available in Endwalker. Do some research before posting here please? Otherwise people will think your trolling or worse and be less kind than others like me.

Considering they supposedly only started playing last week it's not impossible that they simply aren't aware of these things. I'm not sure why anyone would think they are trolling just for being unaware. There's nothing that would indicate that. lol If your aim was to help I think you missed the mark.

[Allegor]

Considering they supposedly only started playing last week it's not impossible that they simply aren't aware of these things. I'm not sure why anyone would think they are trolling just for being unaware. There's nothing that would indicate that. lol If your aim was to help I think you missed the mark.

To be fair, there are genuine troll threads appearing every other day made by brand new profiles, and Google is right there, so....

That said, it could've been worded with less snark.

[Kolsykol]

As far as I understand they were planning on only Hrothgar but then during development they decided to make Viera too due to fan request ( or maybe it was the reverse ).
It's pretty noticeable because both of them have severe lack of customization options and can basically not wear helmets.

There's also lore reasons why male Viera would be extremely rare to the point of basically being non-existent, I don't think that's the main reason and I mean they're adding them now.
But it may have played a role in their decision to not scrap Hrothgar and just make Viera alone.
And ultimately most people wanted female Viera it's not even close so they pleased the most amount of people this way.

To be fair, there are genuine troll threads appearing every other day made by brand new profiles, and Google is right there, so....

That said, it could've been worded with less snark.

I do agree with you especially with how it's framed a little as '' y is dis female only? '' which usually is framed that way when people want to go on some big rant about '' female characters in vidya gaems ''.
The OP did mention Hrothgar too but it was mostly focused on Viera and it was more like an afterthought mentioned.

Whenever people bring up these things I do sometimes think that they're just trying to do a '' gotcha '' and push some other narrative because some content upsets them.
But I don't think that's what the OP's intent was.
If the OP had gone on about '' y Vieru such sexualize ermaghurd looki at beastily Hrothgur such differenci '' then I would've read different intent into it.

It's like how there's a difference when someone asks for more options in skimpy gear with male characters for example vs someone who claims that's what they want but then spends 99.9% of everything that they say on ranting about women showing skin.
The intent there is clearly pretty different even if they claim otherwise when called out on it.
The OP strikes me more as in the former camp.

[van_arn]

Seriously? Yoshi-P literally told us male Vierra will be available in Endwalker. Do some research before posting here please? Otherwise people will think your trolling or worse and be less kind than others like me.

I'd rather the new players ask what they want on the official forums so they can get back to playing the game, rather than watch every keynote for every expansion before they feel prepared enough to ask.