Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
Even if they made them not look like hulking monstrosities, they'd still be pretty niche, let's be honest. I seriously doubt that race counterpart will be worth the consequences towards customization options, gear, etc. for everyone else. Male hrothgar will probably end up being the ones who suffer the most for female hrothgar inclusion, for that matter. Again, I don't think they should have released male viera either, yet. The only way it would be worthwhile is them miraculously making it easier to fit gear, add customization options, hair, etc.. by then.

I don't think au ra are comparable to female hrothgar either. Unless you think they are going to literally just do miqo'te 2.0 where femhroth are more human than bestial.
People don't GAF about Female Hrothgar because they assume they know what they will look like and don't want "that", even though we have a number of cases of sexual dimorphism in this game's races. As someone who loves character design and art, I can personally see a lot of ways for them to be appealing. Even the Finalized art for the queen as well as the Bozja Mural show a more kemono styled face and I'm sure more people would want to play that than the dudes. It doesn't have to be a matter of "Humanized vs animal", it can be a matter of style. Lopp-Moon buns def don't look "human", but they also clearly don't look like realistic rabbits. The simple fact that they decided to make shared hair work on the dudes leads me to believe that they went in a direction of "Design the females with shared hair in mind".

But like I said, the time for worrying about the drawbacks is long gone. Blame the MV stans, they're legit the only reason we're getting both.