Quote Originally Posted by Kurogaea View Post
If they appeared as an npc, mature players would ask for them as a playable race. Children who happen to get the game for their birthday will whine about not being able to have them. -_-
I mean, realistically, if they appear as NPCs, there's not a whole lot of reasons left as to why they couldn't be a playable race other than SE flat-out saying "we dun wanna". The model work would be largely done, and seeing as how tons of NPCs are actually able to be re-created in the character creator without issue I don't think it's a huge logical leap to assume that Viera models might be designed to be the same.

It's mostly going to come down to how strict SE is on their "we dun wanna", though. The cynical side of me says we might see them if Stormblood falters, in an attempt to bolster flagging revenue via 5.0 sales or Fantasia sales.