"Return to Ivalice" Stormblood's 24 Man Raid

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This raid is a god send to all tactics and FFXII followers.

Get ready for Saturday live letter. Info incoming.

I have never been this excited for a 24 man raid dungeon

[FoxyAreku]

Is this actually legit?

It's an old topic from 9 months ago...but I hadn't heard of this before.

Hopefully Viera don't come of this. Ugh.

[Lauwen]

Is this actually legit?

It's an old topic from 9 months ago...but I hadn't heard of this before.

Hopefully Viera don't come of this. Ugh.

Why the Viera hate? Not a fan of Tactics or XII?

[ApprenticeSmithy]

Can't wait to find out more. Wonder what era it's gonna be? Era of XII with airships and other races, or era of tactics WOTL?

[Maero]

The 24 man should be added soon, it gives something to do i guess

[AxiomPITCH]

Hopefully Viera don't come of this. Ugh.

What's it to you really? It's not like more options is a bad thing, even if you find them distasteful or bad. We need a new race. Once we get a rendition of Viera, people will be quiet about it, it will be out of the way, and we can move on to better things.

[jameseoakes]

What's it to you really? It's not like more options is a bad thing, even if you find them distasteful or bad. We need a new race. Once we get a rendition of Viera, people will be quiet about it, it will be out of the way, and we can move on to better things.

Not sure why we need a new race

[Theodric]

Not sure why we need a new race

Ultimately the only real reason is because a very vocal portion of the community happen to want Viera as a playable race. Often citing anything to do with Ivalice as justification even though...the Viera were a very minor part of Ivalice and the real reason to fawn over Ivalice is the exceptional plot, intrigue and nuances of what is a very vast and in-depth setting.

We don't need a new race. What we need first and foremost is more customisation options for the existing playable races. To fix the lack of eyebrows for Highlander men, for instance. The excuse that they shave them in honour of Ala Mhigo and to intimidate their foes is silly justification when you consider that not every Highlander is going to embrace such a practice. Furthermore, they didn't have the women do it - quite blatantly because it'd look very ugly.

No new races are likely to be anything overly unusual, either - just humans with slight tweaks. Which isn't necessarily bad - but we don't need it until the issues with the existing races are dealt with first.

[WhiteArchmage]

Also we want viera because they were shamelessly teased for Heavensward then veto-ed because they were "too human looking", then they stripped the more demonic designs from the Au Ra to...make them more hume-like, so a lot of us that were hyped for the Viera feel cheated

[AxiomPITCH]

We don't need a new race. What we need first and foremost is more customisation options for the existing playable races.

I invite you to show me when they've ever mentioned anything at all about introducing more character customization options for the currently playable races. We've been asking for all of the options you mentioned for YEARS now, and nothing at all has ever been stated. Until we get more substantial options for the current ones or if they can't/won't, we need a new race. I mean of course technically we don't need anything at all, I'm perfectly fine with my Miqo, I think Viera is as repulsive as Au Ra. Though if the past is any indication, any new races added will just be a total disaster. How about we appease the vocal minority, maybe they'll move along to something more productive? I mean SE does it all the time. Plus... you do realize that when Au Ra was released, people were saying the exact same thing? "We need more options for the existing races, not a new one."

Also, tell us more of the real reasons why we should like Ivalice. The "vast" plot and setting mean nothing if you do not care one way or the other for the people involved it.