Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[RosaLunaCelestia]

Viera x Hyrur <3

[Tsumdere]

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I most definitely am an advocate for Viera being added (Fran is best girl), but never like this. Never. I hate the moe blob/kawaii aesthetic. We already have a blank stare moe blob race. Please give me the tall Amazonian bunnies. Please and thank you.

[Keydah]

I don't want a hentai cute viera, I want a fierce Viera that looks like Fran.

Yessssss. I didn't get my fierce lizard ladies like one of their unused concepts, so gimme a fierce bunny!

And about "it's just another human with animal ears and a tail!" It kinda is, but kinda isn't - it's different enough from what we have to add variety (if it's a Fran-Viera), yet similar enough to attract a portion of the "overused" races' players. I feel like it would be better than a beast race, since 1. obviously people want it, look at this thread; and 2. a large chunk of people always gravitate towards that kind of race...look at Au Ra and Miqo'te. More players would change to (and stay) Viera than they would a Ronso or Bangaa or whatever else, unless maybe it was a lala-sized super-cutesie beast to satisfy that chunk of players. I would rather see a ton of Miqo, Au Ra, Lala, and Viera than it remain a ton of Miqo, Au Ra, and Lala + a handful of other stuff including a small portion of <insert beast race here>.

Personally, just for the sake of making it even more diverse, I'd want them to add both concepts (the short, cute Viera + the FFXII Viera) that they created for FFXIV and have them be separate subraces like Midlander vs Highlander, but that's a lot of work. But that would satisfy the two largest race populations: humanoid with a twist, and cutesies.

[Skivvy]

I most definitely am an advocate for Viera being added (Fran is best girl), but never like this. Never. I hate the moe blob/kawaii aesthetic. We already have a blank stare moe blob race. Please give me the tall Amazonian bunnies. Please and thank you.

I would fantasia so fast :x.

[Dark-Saviour]

+1 for Moeblob Vierra. >_>

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

How about a vicious moeblob? That's entirely possible if they tweak emotes appropriately. Huge confident swagger, mix of ferocious and cute emotes, and a good VA would do wonders.

[Ghastly]

I wonder what kind of voice/personality Viera would get..I hope they can find a way to use Fran's voice actress or someone similar for their voices

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I wonder what kind of voice/personality Viera would get..I hope they can find a way to use Fran's voice actress or someone similar for their voices

Doomfist? Oooh how about the vicious moeblobs voiced by Zarya's voice actress?

[Burmecia]

Made interesting observation here: apparently "attractive" design = unoriginal design. Well, I disagree, but you know, opinions are fickle things.
I'm definitely crossing my fingers for viera to become playable in future <3
I'm playing this game partly because I like it's aesthetics, no shame in admitting. "Sexy"/"cute" characters are part of that design. If I wanted to play "western style", "realistic" and "gritty" looking game I would vote with my wallet and give my money to developer who wants to create playable dwarves and more sliders so my 30-something anti-heroic human man PC can have that perfectly broken nose.
That just in not my thing and I don't even want FFXIV to become That.

[Laerune]

I reckon we might get an answer soon, if they introduce Viera in the new 24 man raid, then we will know which version we will get. I prefer two have 2 clans, 1 is the Ivalice Viera and the other is the smaller one. If SE is not going to add new faces, horns etc, then they might aswell spend some resource on the new race and make it very good.

Personaly, if I had to pick a type of Viera, then I would pick Ivalice Viera.