Viera race

[Ametrine]

I'm pretty confident we will get a bunny race, however I strongly doubt we will get Viera. It'll be a new race, with a new name, with new lore, that just happen to look like that. That's what we'll get.

We'd have to get new lore on them. Their matriarchal society has too many parallels with Miqo'te, and their jungle isolationist lifestyle is similar to Grid's Padjals.

I'm actually hoping the men are smaller. Not tiny, but like what Elezan women are to Midlander men. The men are still strong and built, the women are still the Amazonian towers we love.


I can dream.

[Balipu]

We'd have to get new lore on them. Their matriarchal society has too many parallels with Miqo'te, and their jungle isolationist lifestyle is similar to Grid's Padjals.

I'm actually hoping the men are smaller. Not tiny, but like what Elezan women are to Midlander men. The men are still strong and built, the women are still the Amazonian towers we love.


I can dream.

A reverse of the Au Ra dimorphism? Sounds fair. I'm not making the game but you have my vote.

[Pomelo]

I'm pretty confident we will get a bunny race, however I strongly doubt we will get Viera. It'll be a new race, with a new name, with new lore, that just happen to look like that. That's what we'll get.

This.

Viera that come from the Sea. And use their bunny feet like flippers or something :P

[Lauront]

They could reserve the Nu Mou for a smaller race. Viera are meant to be tall and lithe.

A reverse of the Au Ra dimorphism? Sounds fair. I'm not making the game but you have my vote.

I wish they'd never implemented the stupid levels of dimorphism they did with au ra; the original concept for the females was better.

[DeadRiser]

Which will not be present in XIV, if they're added.

You don't know that. They could easily change what they worship to something familiar in xiv. They are attuned with nature. So much that could fit in xiv's lore.

[Hakuro89]

You guys realize it'd go through the same thing Miqo'tes and their negative value posteriors did with gear design restrictions, yeah? You'd just get another Hyur with animal ears/features. Something we already have twofold with Miqo'te and Au'Ra.

And how many 'gimme Viera' threads do we need, anyway?

[Nestama]

You don't know that. They could easily change what they worship to something familiar in xiv. They are attuned with nature. So much that could fit in xiv's lore.

I don't, no. However it's better to make new lore, rather than just copy and paste (be incredibly lazy again) from a world that doesn't exist in FFXIV. We also already have Padjal, Elementals and Duskwights (to an extent) playing the part of "people of the wood."

[Theodric]

I wish they'd never implemented the stupid levels of dimorphism they did with au ra; the original concept for the females was better.

Yeah. They looked fierce yet elegant - and very similar to how female demons are designed in the setting. The men, at least, look fierce and elegant - when they're not designed with some of the more terrible facial feature combinations - whilst Au Ra women just end up looking like little shrimp to me in the vast majority of cases.

Between a new race and additional options for the existing batch of races I'd choose the latter every time. I assume it would be less work too - especially since designing a new base model would require every animation, emote and gear to be adjusted so that it 'fits'. If it is a race with animal features then it'd also come with unfortunate clipping issues as well.

[Jatoi]

Expanded character customization would certainly be appreciated, however to deny the fact that those animal/ human like hybrids are not popular is just wrong. People who enjoy this series simply adhere to a different train of thought, one which enjoys cute/ attractive aesthetics. While far from conclusive, one need only look to the show your race threads to see what holds the majority interest.
(as of 09/13/16, 03:06)
Hyur- 162
Elezen- 99
Au ra-353
Miqo 'te- 645
Lalafell- 123
Roe- 366 (left off by mistake)
(once more, this is far from conclusive, however take into account the official census counts hyur bot gil ad spammers...)

Holy crap, the Elezen thread count...

[Jatoi]

New race? Umm, yes please!? Who doesn't want a new race?

You seriously want more nose, mouth, eyes, and eye brown options on current races over an entire new race?

Yes, because our options are pretty limited and it's frequent that for those who play the more populated races, you will run into your doppleganger. It doesn't help that the customization on most of them offers very little variety. Female Miqo'te suffer from this badly enough with two of the four face options being very similar, just that the nose/lips having a different shade to them. I messed with the character creation enough and it's pretty disappointing. Nevertheless, that's just one example out of plenty.