"Return to Ivalice" Stormblood's 24 Man Raid

[loreleidiangelo]

Other than gear scaling, animations, unique gear for feet, character customisation etc. Are you saying that because we have Goblins as an NPC race, that there is no reason that they can't make it a playable race other than "we don't wanna"?

Pretty much, yeah. The bulk of the modeling is done. As I mentioned in the rest of my post, most NPCs in this game actually seem to be created with the character creator as a base. I could make a Thancred, Minfillia, Yda etc. right now just using the current in-game assets we have and the Mogstation hairstyles/gears. In fact, minus the gear, one of my retainers is a Thancred clone. I'm assuming at this point, minus the hairstyle, a player could make a Yugiri using the Au Ra creator, but not sure if anyone's attempted it yet.

EDIT: Good job also choosing the most deliberately non-humanoid race we've probably seen in this game as your example. Do you really think you can accurately compare scaling gear for a Viera to scaling gear for a goblin? By the devs' own ADMISSION, they don't want to implement Viera as playable not because of some sort of player-perceived modeling problem (like you're trying to state), but simply because they don't WANT to. They think they're too similar to Miqo'te and Au Ra...which is fine, but never anywhere have I seen them cite modeling difficulty as the reason Viera won't be implemented.

To be honest, I'd rather they implement something else as well, but I'm also realistic. World of Warcraft barely gets away with racial diversity via race-locked class choices...do you really think this game, where players can be any class that they want with the push of a button, will have any sort of racial diversity outside of "kawaii moe" if they're not forced into it by the game design? Maybe some players would, but I think the devs would roll in a lot more Fantasia cash shop dough if they introduced a third super-cute human-with-animal-ears-and-tail race instead of something like Bangaa.