Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

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Thank you for correcting Saito on those things.
As for the FF tactics and Vagrant story (vagrant story is not confirmed to be the same ivalice or even a FF) I was referring to every instance after viera were created and ivalice existed.

Saito, until you can find a topic that reaches 72 pages, 46,000 views, and an official poll understand that this is one of the major requests that the community as a whole has.
You know what the difference between you and I is? I can bring proof, while you can't.

Well, Nestama makes a good point, but even that aside - I'm not claiming to have proof that the community as a whole is AGAINST the idea of Viera being added. It's more down what I have personally observed and witnessed:

which is threads like this one - here or sometimes elsewhere - within which people discuss the idea, and the sentiment that it IS something "the majority" of the FFXIV community wants, or the idea that it's near or at the very top of the "Things The Fans Want" list, is just sort of thrown about like it's fact. Whereas, outside those threads, I don't think I've EVER seen it discussed, positively or negatively. Certainly I've never seen anyone bring it up in game.

Now granted, that's all anecdotal. But you can perhaps understand my skepticism. The other thing is that the poll shows only that "a race like the Viera" was the single most popular option. It's not like it got 50% of the vote or something. You can't really point to that poll and claim it as proof that "this is what the community wants", because out of everyone that voted in the poll, a majority of them voted for something other than the Viera-like race. You could say that it helps prove that more people want Viera than any other single option, but you can't say it proves that "a majority of the community" wants the Viera to be added.

HAVE the devs weighed in on this? I'm curious.

EDIT:

Except, as I already said, Yoshi P heavily implied that the ivalice story we are getting is based on the first FFT, the one without Viera, making your point about it completely irrelevant

Did he? Interesting, I didn't know that. I had assumed that it would be the "later" Ivalice, with all of the stuff brought in by the TA games and FFXII. I'm honestly more interested in it if it's going to be more confined to "Ivalice as presented in the original FFT".

Also I forgot to reply about this when posting, but thanks for digging that up, Nestama. So basically, the source for us possibly going to Rabanastre/Dalmasca is... Koji being Koji and teasing everyone with maaaaaaaybe's and throat clearing. lol So we'll have to wait and see on that. It very well could be something they plan to do or want to do, but they haven't figured out how yet, so they don't want to actually announce anything.