FFXIV 2nd expansion: Viera-like race still a possibility?

[Ghastly]

If what people want is a gay men race please request that. Nothing wrong with that. That's how I see every "I want a fierce" female race talk feels to me.

[Roegadyn_Bear]

If what people want is a gay men race please request that. Nothing wrong with that. That's how I see every "I want a fierce" female race talk feels to me.

Why yes, I would love a second gay male race to complement the one we currently have.

*Wink wink nudge nudge*

[Samcaesar]

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Both Midlander and Roegadyn, the women aren't half as fierce looking as the guys. They're always smaller, heck with the Roegadyn, the women are like half the thickness of the men.I'm not looking for a race that's relatively "fierceness" because lmao, we have lalafell, everything automatically looks more fierce than them. There just isn't much Viera would legitimately add, especially when chances are they'd just be either tall Midlanders or Elezen with Miqo'te faces and bunny ears glued on. Plus like, I'm not sure how you'd really have calm or stoic, every race is automatically calm or stoic until you use the emotes..

I just want something like a humanoid variant of the Charr from GW2 or something. Not a "gay men race", just a race where being a girl doesn't mean you're automatically shorter than 90% of the guys you meet and you always look pretty (And in some cases, you might as well look like an entirely different species). It's so overdone and leads to the Au Ra problem (Or really the "Fantasy race" problem), which is liking the aesthetics of the Auri men means liking an entirely different thing than liking the aesthetics of the Auri women, and if you want to play a race that looks like they come from "Warring nomadic tribes", you're stuck with making a guy. I mean, Viera just don't really add much to the plate and asking for them just really sounds like "Give me more hot women, SE". Which hey, that's fine, but it really doesn't acknowledge that adding them isn't unique in the least (Not in general or within the context of the game), and still just continues to pander to the same crowd (i.e. The one asking for conventionally attractive women) with zero leeway for other demographics (Folks asking for badass looking women, folks asking for a beastman race, folks wanting something unique, et cetera).

... However, if you start talking about how Elezen with bunny ears aren't what you're asking for, and how Elezen don't look "Stoic, calm, and beautiful", maybe we can at least see eye to eye on the game not giving us what we want when it comes to the current races and aesthetic options.

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Also, interesting look into history of elvish races, nice job!

[Blood-Aki]

If what people want is a gay men race please request that. Nothing wrong with that. That's how I see every "I want a fierce" female race talk feels to me.

I'm afraid a "certain" female race already took "that" role or as close as you're going to get to a "manly female" we got that coverd already.

as far as the topic goes, No, please. we already have catgirls that are pretty much hyur with ears and tail and au ra, hyur with skin cancer and horns for ears. adding a bunny ear version isn'y going to look much better. IF they are going to bring new races at least be unique.