So you know how Ivalice is coming to town...?

[Nestama]

Not being able to wear shoes is a crap excuse not to put in a race (quoted from here.) EverQuest had their beastial races not wear hats or boots, and even other games do it. But they are fine in a game.

Now saying that making a working model in FF14 is difficult is something different.

I think it's pretty reasonable (especially as Viera are mostly human in appearance). Some leg gear (or gear overall) just look weird/bad without the right shoes. I doubt people would be fine with footwear being defaulted to 'Viera sandals.'

[RitsukoSonoda]

The difficulty with viera are the feet. its not the claws on the feet its the heel itself. Viera aren't wearing heeled footwear. It had to be designed like that because of the heel itself and that heel contributes to their height. Redesigning all footwear to not look really weird or distorted on a viera would probably be a good amount of work. That said the ivalice raid makes references to war of lions. However in the raid we run into seeq which are from tactics A2 and FFXII. We also run into Bangaa... specifically a group of them that appeared in FFXII. This leads to the question of whether the seeq and bangaa appeared because of the events that happened or are they actually in FFXIV and we just haven't been to the lands they inhabit yet.

[JCharms]

People don't realize that means going back and changing every single foot slot to accommodate unique feet. Do you not fathom how utterly time consuming that would be? If they don't do this and just leave them bare foot, people would absolutely complain because that would entail they could not glamour foot options.

If they did put in Viera, it absolutely would be just another reskin of Au Ra/ Miqo'te/ Elezen. They made it very clear they do not want to have to deal with unique models of races (IE: animal feet, faces, etc).

Yeah, it sounds like he would like to add them, but the work invloved is way too much for a non gameplay addition, and doesnt want to put up with the incessant whinging of the communtity about not having shoes.
Its a shame, but understandable.

[Tahlaera]

How come noone has mentioned yet the thing a few friends and me agreed stood out most of all from the intro cutscenes to Rabanastre? The fact that the cutscene excessively focuses on zooming in on clawed feet, which almost made it feel like they were trying to hint at something with it. xD Honestly, I'd be all for seeing them add Viera since a lot of people really want them, and it'd be interesting to see something not entirely just different sized human with different ears/additional things stuck on. (Au Ra horns are their ears, so :P) As for the difficulty of adjusting boots, I think a large portion of current boots designs use a similar base model and just have different changes added on, and if not, I'd expect perhaps it'd be possible to have Viera boots built with such a concept.

[Lambdafish]

No thanks, Viangaa on the other hand.....

[BigRed5392]

yet no mention of the prima vista he theater ship ff9

kinda funny ff9 was just remastered and launched out of no where

[Soge01]

I find the whole difficulty with the foot design thing just a poor excuse not to include Viera into the game. Either just do as a few players have already suggested and just make the race go barefoot until Viera hit a certain level (like lvl 50) and then start adding in unique shoe designs on gear for them, or give them normal but still unique looking feet with high heels for both barefeet and starter adventurer gear that both look similar to the FFXII Viera's own heels so people will still feel like the Viera they want if they don't like them without the heels on.

[MOZZYSTAR]

Y'all too serious. Let me dream! xP

How come noone has mentioned yet the thing a few friends and me agreed stood out most of all from the intro cutscenes to Rabanastre? The fact that the cutscene excessively focuses on zooming in on clawed feet, which almost made it feel like they were trying to hint at something with it. xD.

Yesss, yes!

yet no mention of the prima vista he theater ship ff9

kinda funny ff9 was just remastered and launched out of no where

No way. I had no idea. :| Gotta check that out.

[Xlantaa]

Well. In the raid you can see Bangaas and Seeqs. I do no discard other races show in future updates. Except maybe moogles, because Moogles are already in the game.

[Khalithar]

If you want to be a viera just roll elezen female and get the bunny outfit from the saucer.