Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
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.