Quote Originally Posted by JamiaHaab View Post
Hello VIERA SUPPORT thread. You sure are a slippery one.
Aye people love to derail the thread to denounce the idea or push their favored options.

A reply i just made on FB to a suggestion for Viera in FFXIV.

A lot of people like to complain that Viera would be more of the same... I however can't help but see it as constancy. Never has a playable race been anything more than a human variant with non human features. There are other games out there to fill the furry, non human niche, why must a Japanese game with Japanese aesthetics be forced to conform to the sensibilities of a minority that makes up so little of the player base? Not to mention that many who want said "diversity" would not use the races in question, instead simply wanting them as a background dressing to make the world more inclusive even while they play as one of the "human with animal features". This does not even begin to take into account the issues with animating so much of the cut scenes to work with non human faces... How exactly does a smile better suit a hero when the have beak?

As for the desire for more character creation options, that is an argument i would love to champion. However, this would only be after a Complete redesign of the game. I'm talking on the scale on 1.0 to 2.0 server relaunch (to include character migrations, server redesign, and engine remake). This is something that i do not see happening until at least 10.0, that's with the caveat that the game lasts that long.