Please just give us Viera!

[Caitlyn]

Always be apprehensive towards concept art. The final product will most likely look nothing like it.

Take the Au Ra concepts for example (or even the 'finished design' artwork).

Concept arts/finished designs and actual ingame models will ever differ from each other.

Concidering how they presented the previous races, like Au Ra, It might end up look closely to the pictures, and that would be perfect^^

Well, I think that some early concepts were much more interresting/unique, as the final result. I would love to have an option to let my Au Ra look like this:

[Celef]

Plus, i think I remember a pnj speaking of his home country as Dalmasca, so we coul imagine it's the same univers oO

Too bad they changed them, that's the kind of Au'ra i would have played !

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Plus, i think I remember a pnj speaking of his home country as Dalmasca, so we coul imagine it's the same univers oO

Too bad they changed them, that's the kind of Au'ra i would have played !

No it is not. It's a reference.

[Celef]

How can a location be a reference ? oO especially if you've already used that name or a "real" location in one of the univers you've created

[CherryCola]

At this point, I'm starting to lean more in the "give more creation options" camp. However, if we just HAVE to have another race so soon, I just personally would like *whatever* it is to not suffer from such dimorphism like AuRa. If you're going to have males one way, please make the females similar and vice versa. And though I know a highly unpopular opinion, a new race with females that are not in similar vein to Au'Ra/Miquote/midlander Hyur would be bonus.

[Yasuhiro]

How can a location be a reference ? oO especially if you've already used that name or a "real" location in one of the univers you've created

Example:
Crystal Tower, named after and is direct homage to III's Crystal Tower but it still XIV's own, much like Dalmasca, it's just a name.
XIV's not the only game in the series to do this.
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/M...nal_Fantasy%29
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/M..._Fantasy_IX%29
Direct reference to Final Fantasy I's Mount Gulg but it's still its own thing in that game's universe.

[Vaeria]

All for a bunny race but for the love of god, no more -Japanese school girl with horns/ tail/ ears attached- stuff (no offense if thats your thing, speaking purely for creative reasons) as we've got 2-3 races that have filled out that role just fine. Can understand the dev's cautious/play it safe mentality for the general audience but its just getting...boring.

Offtopic, innitially had really high hopes when I found out a 'dragon race' was getting added. Saw the male version 1st and danced around the room. Saw the female one and assumed a miqo was just wearing a strange hat (again no offense) Either way, just wish theyd push the creative aspect a little more.

The previous concept art for the Vera posted was beautiful enough. And while itd probably be a waste to wish as something as immaginative as say Freya from ff9 or something more adult/womanly like, I dunno..Xena with bunny ears (. . .) just wish theyd change it up a little lol.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

How can a location be a reference ? oO especially if you've already used that name or a "real" location in one of the univers you've created

Just because Costa de Sol appears here doesn't mean the game is connected to Final Fantasy 7.

[Reinha]

Well, FFXIV got already every common race you find in any other MMORPG:

The human race: Hyur
The elf-like race with awkward proportions: Elezen
The tiny/cute race: Lalafell
The big/orc-like cuddly race: Roe
The sexy (furry) race: Miqote
The cute demonish race: Au Ra

It wont make much sense to add a new race with every expansion. Add Viera with 4.0 is absolutely fine. But it should be last race for a longer time. After that, they should better focus on a deeper costumization, because there is alot unused potenial.

I fixed the descriptions a little. First of all, Roegadyn are nothing like orcs. Have you even seen an orc? They have big teeth and are uglier than some undead. Just because they share some skin colours doesn't mean they look the same. That's like saying Miqo'te look like fish because they can both be blue. This is an orc:



Secondly, why should Viera be the last race, when we have yet to cover so many types of races? We already have a "cute furry race". We also have "awkward proportions / long limbs". We have both girly and mature human-looking females. What we lack is ferocity, full bestial appearance (see Tauren / Pandaren / Draenei / Worgen in WoW and Sylvari(plant) / Charr in Guild Wars 2), some major animal types (fish & bird, we already have mammal and reptile looking races), some fantasy race types (dwarf, goblin), non-alive race (robots, stone race, undead race) and any race with a "higher being" vibe to them to balance out the "demon" archetype (angels, nephilim, high elves, ancients, ethereal/astral beings, padjal as playable characters). The Viera is none of these, not even ferocious going by every art drawing I've seen. So many options and people want a damn rabbit? Come on.

I think it's absolutely not fine to add this Viera race I see in pictures. It's so close to the races we already have, unless the devs actually give them a rabbit's face including the full fur, big front teeth and beady eyes. If you don't think the purpose of race options is to add variety and expand the customer base, that's your prerogative, but I think Viera in the form that's shown ITT would be a waste of resources and make this game even less appealing to those who don't care for the kawaii girl-with-animal-ears stuff.

[Yasuhiro]

I think it's absolutely not fine to add this Viera race I see in pictures. It's so close to the races we already have, unless the devs actually give them a rabbit's face including the full fur, big front teeth and beady eyes. If you don't think the purpose of race options is to add variety and expand the customer base, that's your prerogative, but I think Viera in the form that's shown ITT would be a waste of resources and make this game even less appealing to those who don't care for the kawaii girl-with-animal-ears stuff.

That would be doing a disservice to the Viera making them look like actual rabbits. The Viera in XII are fine enough to stand out in this game, if you google them you'll see they're like XI's races, actual animal traits instead of what we have in XIV, human with a tail and animal ears. I know you've come straight from WoW but Viera are ferocious hunters in their original game and their designs show it, Fran the poster FFXII viera especially. dunno what ones you're looking at.