On are way ^^ I wish there was a way to get the question asked directly. Kinda like the Q and A they did with XIV before it was released or hit Yoshi up on twitter if he has one :D
Here ya go Cairdeas, Thought these might help.
http://killingifrit.com/forums/topic...omichi-tanaka/
http://killingifrit.com/forums/topic...yasu-kurosawa/
This is from the 2nd link: Eorzeapedia: There is a growing group in the community who would like to see the implementation of Male Miqo’te and Female Roegadyn in FINAL FANTASY XIV. Are there plans to make these yet to be seen gender and race combination playable? If not, what made you decide not to work them into FINAL FANTASY XIV.
Tanaka: Actually all of the design is ready, so we were planning to implement them into the game, however during the development process we had to put priority with what to put into the game, and due to the man power issue we had to give up implementing them into the beginning of the game. You will see them as an NPC, but it is not a race that you can choose at the beginning. We’ll see how it goes in the future, it might be a possiblity. We are still looking into it.
Looking for more interviews where they talk about race will post them as i find them.