Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Ghastly]

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.

Your part about me being roegadyn doesn't affect the galka point. There's a big difference between the races an mmo starts with and the ones that are added later. The ones that are added later are most of the time based on how popular they will be with the players. Au ra for example is for the japanese players and ended up being famous here also. Yoshida even talked about how popular viera are in the West. To summarize, roegadyn and races that are not popular are there because they need to be there for those that want something unique and will be played by some. This works the same way that jobs work. Classes like monk might not be popular but it's fine to add them at the start. After that when they're adding new jobs they only consider what the fans want (dark knight, samurai, etc).

As for your fox statement it really doesn't make sense to make animal-based races besides viera since they don't meet a requirement for adding a new race. Adding a new race is either based on being unique (and wanted) or being a classic race in the series (and wanted). Au ra met the first requirement, viera meets the second.

Does that sound familiar to how they add jobs? Dark knight is classic in the series, astrologian/mch are unique to the game.

Why have 2 sword tanks? Because they're classic jobs and people like them. Why add viera while we have miqo'te? Because they're classic and people like them.


I back up every statement that I make. I would like to see those opposed to adding viera to actually back up their statements because just opposing them without any reason besides I don't like them is getting really tiring and really shows how little thought they put into their opposition.

This in turn should prove to the devs that the ones opposed to the class have no real basis besides their own dislike and not because of a real reason.
Want more beastial race? Impossible in FFXIV
Want them not added? Make a thread for it, it works better than in a Show your support for viera thread. There's actually one opposing the viera, your voices would be better heard there.
Don't have a reason besides I don't like them? Why not state it once instead of repeating the same baseless reason 20 times? I don't like them isn't a legitimate reason, it's only an opinion.

You've made your opinion know loudly and frequently already. Perhaps its time to leave the thread? It's purpose is to discuss the addition of Viera, not a thread to discuss never adding another new playable race and everything Square could do instead of that. If you'd like to discuss that, why not make another thread for it? I'm sure you'd have a lot of people supporting an agenda of adding more customization options to the existing races. That's something I'm in favor of as well. I'm also just in favor of new races. I feel like Square didn't add the Au Ra correctly to be honest. They would've done better to hold off on making them playable until Stormblood, the expansion where they're relevant to the story and we have a lot of in-game opportunities to learn about them.

That said, adding Viera or any new race might be something best held off on until we visit Meracydia or the New World to the West, that large unexplored continent the Mamoolja come from. Or perhaps Radz-at-Han. Really, there are a lot of places we could find new races.

Waiting until new continent is added is a big mistake. By the time we visit a new continent outside the current map FFXIV will be at the end of its run, barely with 3 years left by the time a Meracydia/new world expansion is made.

They can come from those locations to eorzea but to wait to go there won't add any value to the use of having them. The lore would work better, but practical/playwise it would be too far into FFXIV's lifecycle.