Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Anzaman]

Q: Not to bug you, Yoshida. But I'm a big fan of FFXII's Fran. The Viera race was considered for Heavensward but never included and Stormblood marks the second time they've been left out. Should I give up hope?

A: I don't think you should give up hope. I mean we're hoping Final Fantasy XIV will have a very long lifespan. With that being said. Fran and the Viera race have a very high heel and trying to depict that in Final Fantasy XIV is challenging. They won't be able to wear any shoes that exist in Eorzea right now.

https://www.finder.com.au/final-fant...ormblood-viera

[Pomelo]

Q: Not to bug you, Yoshida. But I'm a big fan of FFXII's Fran. The Viera race was considered for Heavensward but never included and Stormblood marks the second time they've been left out. Should I give up hope?

A: I don't think you should give up hope. I mean we're hoping Final Fantasy XIV will have a very long lifespan. With that being said. Fran and the Viera race have a very high heel and trying to depict that in Final Fantasy XIV is challenging. They won't be able to wear any shoes that exist in Eorzea right now.

https://www.finder.com.au/final-fant...ormblood-viera

I am honestly thrilled! Hobbits in Lotro have bare feet, do we really need to adapt every shoe? We can have bare feet too xD

[silverlunarfox]

Q: Not to bug you, Yoshida. But I'm a big fan of FFXII's Fran. The Viera race was considered for Heavensward but never included and Stormblood marks the second time they've been left out. Should I give up hope?

A: I don't think you should give up hope. I mean we're hoping Final Fantasy XIV will have a very long lifespan. With that being said. Fran and the Viera race have a very high heel and trying to depict that in Final Fantasy XIV is challenging. They won't be able to wear any shoes that exist in Eorzea right now.

https://www.finder.com.au/final-fant...ormblood-viera

This is why we need more high heels! even if they didnt have such an extreme need for a high heel I think people would be happy just to get a viera in general....like me easy remedy tho, is just make the basic outfit for the race have a basic high heel shoe, let the glamour community figure out the rest.

[sarehptar]

With that being said. Fran and the Viera race have a very high heel and trying to depict that in Final Fantasy XIV is challenging. They won't be able to wear any shoes that exist in Eorzea right now.

I wonder if they could make this work in the future by doing what they did with belts--making the shoes invisible for Viera below a certain level. Instead of displaying ilvl 20 shoes, for example, even when the Viera has them equipped, it would just display default Viera high heels until you reach the level where Square started designing unique shoes for Viera. If they added Viera for 5.0 for example, they could get away with default shoes for all ARR/HW content and just go back and add shoe models to Stormblood content... If they added a few glamour shoes for Viera to help bridge that time where they wouldn't have unique shoe models, I can't imagine people would complain.