Square Enix Considering Fan Feedback Over Final Fantasy XIV Online's Controversial New Races

@Blk_Mage_Ctype: Contrary to james_xeno's statement, yes the males exist and yes they're confirmed outside "compilation type books and such." An NPC talks about them in the game, confirms they exist. This NPC has been among the (female) Viera personally, so this isn't something they just learned from some book.

So the concept of the Warrior of Light (who is a single person in the game's lore) being a single member from the male gender of an existing race isn't extreme or in any way lore breaking. It already happened with the male Miqo'te.

https://imgur.com/a/FhPtF4B

@Blk_Mage_Ctype:

With the Viera? No but, although males are "said" to exist in compilation type books and such, they are never ever seen, talked about or even mentioned in-game. Combined with the fact that the Viera can interbreed with other races and well.. you get the idea. At best they are like a very (even more) extreme case of races like the Mithra were originally meant to be. Where it was something like 50+:1 female/male. (what a race to be born male into.. :D)

Agree completely with the rest of your post though!

@aorian_starr: I don't care about political correctness at all. I just think the male race is ugly, and want to play the game as a sexy rabbit man.

@aorian_starr: Political correctness?Since when asking for no gender locking have to do with political correctness? Since when as a customer asking for a Heal as become an SJW BS?

So if I follow your twisted logic, those who complain about V1.0 were all liberal-Antifa-SJW?

@aorian_starr: Honestly I think this is just the beginning. We are probably in for a very wild ride in the future.

@ZIMdoom: "If you want to play a female character, there are lots of options. If you want to play a male character, there are lots of options."

But if you want to play as a male character who is a rabbit-person then there are no options.

The argument "but it's lore" is stupid. First of all, because that lore already existed for other races, and was retracted because the designers realized that they are making a game, not writing a book, and giving the players options that they want to play is the most important aspect. Secondly, because in the oh-so-important lore, male vierra exist, so that right there ought to be the end of it. They exist, so one could be a hero. Even beyond that, though, the argument of "well it would still be lore-breaking to have a bunch running around when they're supposed to be rare" is bunk too, because not only are female vierra supposed to be just as rare, but even if they weren't, the game's story doesn't exactly acknowledge that there are thousands of "chosen ones" running around anyway. It's as though, to the game's world, only you can see the other players running around, but to every NPC only you exist.

@ZIMdoom: Im a customer like everybody else and I have every right to voice my discontent about that gender locking race. People are so sick in their mind and think they have the right to tell people when the can or when the cant complain and still have the nerve to talk about political correctness and SJW fascism.

I'm just amazed by the level of projection and mental gymnastics.

@jsprunk:

This! x100

@imajinn: The butthurt was from the other side on this because it was female-only, i.e., interpreted as pushing that "agenda."

@mrbojangles25: Except not only is it incredibly expensive and time consuming to design a race, make the model, retrofit every piece of gear to work with the model etc, the male Viera have had literally zero appearances or representation in any final fantasy game. This means the design team would've basically construct the idea of what they think a make Viera would look like from scratch.

And the reason they didn't do make and female of the Hrothgar is because Viera was the most requested new race. The second most requested race was a beastly/animal looking race. This decision appeased the large majority of players despite what the vocal minority might be bitching about.

It's an easier task to create two races with existing character models from other games to work with. And Yoshida has already left the door open to adding them in the future depending on a variety of factors (player feedback, time, financial resources, and so on).

Maybe next time don't spout ignorant shit if you don't actually know what goes on behind the closed doors of the studio.

@zyxahn: Why is it unbelievable? One of the big draws to MMOs is character choice. Locking genders or classes behind specific walls goes against that kind of player choice and tends not to be terribly popular. Saying "both genders are represented" is meaningless when they're being represented by two drastically different races. If we're going to use that logic then why even have more than two races at all? Add one male race and one female race, there you go both are represented? Most people wouldn't find that to be very appealing.

It was an unpopular enough decision when FFXIV originally launched that they removed the three gender locks when it relaunched under new management.

@mcnichoj: yeah should be using the term "sex" instead of gender, if only to avoid triggering people lol

@deanmanwalking2: EA tried that, it didn't work out too well.