Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Ghastly]

The funny thing about beasttribe races is that no one, or barely anyone plays them. Look at the mighty Galka in FFXI


This is why we're asking for viera, since square enix has the data (like the data above) that proves that making beast tribe-like races is a waste of time.

If you guys really want a beast tribe race why not start a thread for it and give it a lot of support so that they consider adding one? Or will the enxt person that quotes me ignore my entire post and not answer this question?

[Senn]

If you think of it like this, and I'm going to be pulling numbers outta thin air here, that the percentage of hyur and miqo together pre HW made up something like 60% of the playerbase making them both roughly 30% apiece. Then, by adding Au'ra (who are largely similar to those 2) the population while maintaining that 60% is now something like 20% Hyur, 20% Miqo, 20% Au'ra.

That's an interesting perspective on it.

[LordLucavi]

We already have lizard people and cat people, we don't need rabbit people. If you want to be a rabbit person, you can go to the Gold Saucer and buy rabbit glamour pieces. If you play a male character, there's always Fantasia and the rename service. You could even be the tall Elezen, put on bunny ears, and pretend to be Fran if you like. I never found the race as a whole to be aesthetically appealing or even very popular. That's just me and my experiences though.

[Gaiussenpai]

This is the company who stated in the past that they want a one size fits all for the models. What makes anyone think they will make a new race and have to remodel every damn piece of clothing from 1- w/e is the cap then. This is not wow wheres its just a skin onto the model.

[Bjond]

Well, everyone argues a bit about which is the "master" race in FFXIV, but I think we can all agree that we already have a "mistress" race. Do we really need another one? Besides, if I was to ask something of the devs, it would be for UI improvements. I'd trade all updates, changes, expansions, etc. for the next 2 years (including SB) for improvements, changes, and fixes to the UI.

[Mekhana]

We got Highlanders. Why pick anything else?

[Nestama]

The funny thing about beasttribe races is that no one, or barely anyone plays them. Look at the mighty Galka in FFXI


This is why we're asking for viera, since square enix has the data (like the data above) that proves that making beast tribe-like races is a waste of time.

If you guys really want a beast tribe race why not start a thread for it and give it a lot of support so that they consider adding one? Or will the enxt person that quotes me ignore my entire post and not answer this question?

I don't really see 7% being all that low, though I am rather surprised to see Tarutaru (males) reaching 17%. So I guess this means that the next race is going to be a short cute creature?

[Lambdafish]

This is the company who stated in the past that they want a one size fits all for the models. What makes anyone think they will make a new race and have to remodel every damn piece of clothing from 1- w/e is the cap then. This is not wow wheres its just a skin onto the model.

This is my reason for not wanting Viera, the skeleton is not one that is unique enough to warrant putting in, but is different enough that gear will have to be designed specifically around it. What I would prefer is to have sub races that fit to the same skeleton, but look radically different. I was hoping that gosetsu was a new roe clan native to othard

[Galaktica]

The funny thing about beasttribe races is that no one, or barely anyone plays them. Look at the mighty Galka in FFXI


This is why we're asking for viera, since square enix has the data (like the data above) that proves that making beast tribe-like races is a waste of time.

If you guys really want a beast tribe race why not start a thread for it and give it a lot of support so that they consider adding one? Or will the enxt person that quotes me ignore my entire post and not answer this question?

I feel like there's a bit of irony in there somewhere coming from a roe and all. Together, roegadyn and elezen make up roughly 11-15% of all characters. Again, that's together. Separately, Roes average about 5% and Elezen average about 8%.

So, by your same logic, assuming we're talking about FFXII Viera here, why should they bother adding a race even remotely similar to the two least popular races in the game? By your same logic, it literally only makes sense to make Viera into another small, cute, petitie race like Miqo'te and Au Ra.

So, new question, do people honestly not care if Viera are "miqo'te/au ra types" with bunny ears? And if not, why stop there? they may as well add waifu foxes, dogs, and whatever else they can come up with.

After all, nothing says diversity quite like reskins.

[Kaitoo]

To you and anyone else who want more diverse races. What are you looking for?

Dwarfes and Gnomes for example? Both are in the FF Lore btw. and had more apperances then vieras

btw. youre animation sentence is 100 % wrong, thats an animators job as savageink as said.

The passage with how this scene would look with other sized chracters is laughauble too, there are lalafells in this game + i could do this cutscene while wearing hildebrand glamour or with a full face covering helmet

Well, everyone argues a bit about which is the "master" race in FFXIV, but I think we can all agree that we already have a "mistress" race. Do we really need another one? Besides, if I was to ask something of the devs, it would be for UI improvements. I'd trade all updates, changes, expansions, etc. for the next 2 years (including SB) for improvements, changes, and fixes to the UI.

wish i could upvote this more then one time


they should not add race at all atm. especially not to pander some audience that already plays their game and has enough options on animal girls. Rather they should do more customizable for character creator which is a much more needed point in aesthetics or etablish more clan options which is something that is terrible underused imo