Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
wooahh... you took my line of thinking waaaay out of proportion. I never said that Viera was impossible to implement, I'm just bringing your expectations of what is possible down to earth by saying that just because they have implemented them as an NPC doesn't mean that what they have created is in a fit state to become a race (i.e. they would still have to work from the ground up).
No, you were trying to claim that the devs not implementing the race at this point doesn't just boil down to, "they don't wanna". Which, as they've gone on record stating, is precisely the case. You cited goblins as an example of an NPC race that hasn't been implemented because of modeling difficulties, not because the race would just be hugely unpopular to play, and I found that argument fallacious because they are not even remotely similar to our current character models in shape (unlike Viera). I know how Viera feet look, and I'm not arguing that there wouldn't be work involved in creating customizable models from scratch. I pointed out that a lot of the groundwork would be there if they appeared as NPCs for the Ivalice raid, and that since the race is so popular keeping it from the playerbase at that point really would just be because...the devs don't wanna. /shrug

I think in the end, the money will talk on this one. For all that everyone bemoans lack of racial diversity and "cutesy" racial proliferation, pretty much everyone I see still in-game are Miqo, Au Ra, Hyur, or Lalafell.