Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Shougun]

There was an in-game race poll back in 1.0 that I had participated in. I voted for mammalian demi-beastmen, obviously because viera was used in the example.

I don't really see a point in voting to dislike something. Obviously, players will dislike the race they didn't vote for, so I feel it would be a bit redundant. Just keep it simple, and make a poll that shows which race is the most desired.

I really like your idea about the moogle-mail poll thing. I'd like to see this.

Yep! That was exactly the poll I was talking about, the bunny ear one haha . Iirc it was a strong lead compared to the other options (mammalian obviously won). I was just noting that another poster commented that Viera is probably the most disliked option too, which we would have difficulty proving. Of course as I said before I just really want something not 98% hume / hyur.

I probably cared more against Viera in the past but meh it does feel fitting now that we're having a strong Ivalice fandom coming our way. That and I've seen a lot of people really want it - sort of eroded my care against it. The only thing I care for now is that either SE gives us new customization options including eyebrows, or at some point in the recent years (5? years) a race that doesn't look like "human, but different ears, and maybe tail".

I would love to see polling information too . Like what's your favorite leveling content? SE can also pull what people do the most, could be interesting to see if people love X but do Y more often. Also, even if they don't act on it.. it sort of gives the feeling that they're interested.. haha :P. Besides that I just really want to see the game (NPCs) and developers use my mail more often. I loved mognet in FFIX, moogle usefulness in FFXI, and just want to see moogles be used more XD.

My only request if Viera is made is that they try really hard to keep every unique feature, and perhaps add a few or in a different clan an re-imagination of it with something a bit different. Bring in some new hairs, like Frans, of course they should have default option for fingernails (not have to use items for it).

Because if they get lazy at all on Viera then it will really just feel like a slight different version of Miqote. So. . don't be lazy on it! lol. Of course I assume people who want Viera would prefer if SE didn't get lazy on it, but it is a fear of mine. Yoshida, at least in the past, seemed mindful of costs. Good thing as producer, maybe creativity limiting mindset as a developer though.

[Senn]

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Yeah, I would want SE to take great care in designing the viera, and would love to see Fran's hair included in ffxiv. It looks like due to some limitations, they can't design a race with digitigrade feet, but that's fine. I would be ok with normal feet. Doesn't bother me. As long as they base the viera off the concept art they drew. When you mention wanting an ffxiv re-imagination of the viera race, I think of the short viera in their concept art. It seems like that was going to be their re-imagination of it for ffxiv. (Although, I would prefer BOTH tall and short. As I've said before, if they could only develop one, I would be ok with either tall or short).

I wonder what kind of new characteristic they would give the viera in their re-imagination. For example, au ra's have limbal rings. I wonder what viera would have.