Quote Originally Posted by Ghastly View Post
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Quote Originally Posted by From Yoshida himself
A couple months ago, you showed off the new race, the Au Ra… but you also showed concept art of the Viera, who appeared in Final fantasy XII and other games. Why did you decide against their inclusion as a playable race?

The issue with the Viera is that, if you look at them, they're basically humanoid save for their long rabbit ears and their heels. We already have a mostly humanoid race with animal ears in the Mi'qote. When we looked at those initial Viera concepts, it just seemed like a Mi'qote with bunny ears instead of cat ears. It simply wasn't different enough. Especially when we did the male designs… they didn't look beastly enough, they were just a little too cute. We wanted to make something that was original to the Final Fantasy series, and to do that, we decided to step away from the Viera.


I was actually strongly against showing the Viera concept art at the event we unveiled the Au Ra at. I knew that people would be like “why didn't you include them?!” [laughs] We feel we have a good thing with the Au Ra, though. If you don't like them, though, let us know and we'll take it into consideration with the next race we bring in.
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And I'm sorry, but you can't reduce the opposition to "just an opinion." Don't start that mess. That's what this whole thread is. Opinions. Viera don't deserve to be in the game more than anything else. Just because people want them doesn't make it a legitimate reason. I don't care how much support they get.

People were in favor of bigger butts. Does that mean those deserve to take up development time? People want Cloud's bike and the car-that-I-can't-remember-the-name-of from FFXV. Better add those too, eh? I bet people would freaking love to walk around the nude. Better get the dev team on it!

Your opinion is worth just as much or as little as everyone else's whether you like it or not.