Viera Race "Confirmed" for 5.0! Are you gonna change races?

[UsagiAndCrepes]

Imagine being a Roe/Highlander and having less body hair than an effeminate looking rabbit boy.

Well nobody knows what a male viera looks like to be fair. They could be 8ft or 2ft and look hairy all over like Roger Rabbit but nobody could complain since they didn't appear in either the original tactics games or in 12.

[Ateliae]

I might switch to the race depending on how it looks! I'm really excited about them. I'm also hoping (probably won't happen) that the males have more of an androgynous/effeminate look on it, because all of the men excluding Lalafell have been more masculine.

[Canadane]

I have been a Miqo'te for more than eight years now.
I can't just change who I am.

That being said, it'll be nice to see more variety. More races are always cool.

[Its_Elodie]

Im going to switch since I’ve wanted the Viera race when I started playing years ago, but it will be interesting to see how they plan on pulling off the authentic Viera butts and feet in xiv (sarcasm of course). I’m also hoping for a non rigid walk/run animation. I will be really disappointed if we only get cutesy clans and not the tall fierce Viera like Fran.

[Mixae]

Yea I'm switching, I've been praying to YoshiP every night to add bunnies.

[RyuDragnier]

Probably no, they're most likely going to look like Miqote knowing our luck.

[Metsonm]

First thing I'll do is make a new test character to make sure they don't have the same animation issues as Elezen or Femroes. But beyond that, I've got a spare fantasia good to go already.

[DamianFatale]

I will change from Au Ra to Viera If they’re well designed.

What I’m unsure about is if we will see one or both Viera styles.

Tactics/Revenant Wings styled Viera: These are smaller, and technically the original. I dislike Yoshi P’s comments about this being most likely the last race. Not just because I want an anthropomorphic race, but because we really could use a second small race that isn’t just strictly “cute”. We need one with a bit more realism.

XII styles Viera: These tall Viera are more ideal for me, but if we added them then we have Highlander, Roegadyn, Elezen, and male Au Ra. Bringing a total of Four tall races. Lalafell, and female Au Ra are the only “small” races.

Miqote, and Midlander are the only medium races. We really need more medium and small races to make the tall races feel more unique. Tallness, and shortness are supposed to be equally captivating. Medium heighted people are the most common in general, and that should be focused upon for the sake of realism.

With that said, I don’t mind tall Viera, or short Viera. I’m rooting for both to end up separate clans. A short clan, and a tall clan would give the west, and east each of their preferred character style.

I just hope that they don’t stop here, and add a new race or two down the line. We still haven’t explored an anthropomorphic race, and the majority of races being tall really would put an imbalance on the game. More races in future expansions have a lot of potential.

I see the likelihood of each Viera being about equal, but my sceptism makes me think they won’t put in the work of making four character models. The devs have expressed the dislike, and difficulty of implementing new races many times over.

East Side: Japan would like small Viera more, and since this game has a Japanese origin, I could see it going in that favor. They might also not want to repeat another tall race.

West Side: North America would most likely prefer tall Viera based on its tastes. Square Enix might prefer the Viera staying closer to Final Fantasy XII’s aesthetics for artistic direction direction, and familiarity with FFXII.

It’s either way, or both. If it’s one way someone will be unhappy no matter what we do. It’s up to the fandom to pick how they will choose to embrace what type of Viera we eventually get. I’m actually very worried if we do end up with just the small Viera, because of recent reactions to Blue Mage, and Eureka. One more mixed response could send the fandom in an uproar, and make XIV lose subscribers. Maybe if the Small Viera had a medium height instead of a small height, it could be more receptive over here, but I am worried.

[Schan]

No, i'm not changing races. Never cared about Viera. I'm fully expecting a humanoid race with bunny ears and for that i can go to the Gold Saucer and buy the bunny ears and call myself a Viera.

Despite not caring about the race i will still be pissed off if it's in fact an humanoid with just bunny ears for that exact reason. If i can recreate the look by buying an headgear from the Gold Saucer then what the heck have they been doing with their resources?

[Catwho]

I'm probably a minority in that I might consider switching if they add the shorter Viera. With Wildstar dying this month, my fat bunny girl from that game is gone forever.

I think they could possible add both without necessarily adding two different character models per sex. It's mostly just a matter of scaling. The Feol are more petite overall, so shrinking the body of them by a lot while keeping the head the same size would achieve the same effect as simply making a smaller, cuter version. Then the main Viera would have a taller, more scaled up body, while retaining a similar head size. Since the gear can scale to heads and bodies independently (really no problem with that from a programmatic standpoint) - it would achieve the means of giving us both clans without requiring making a whole second skeleton and double the gear sets.

Facial features and customization, on the other hand, would need to be quite different. But those things would likely be made slightly different for each clan anyway (see how Midlanders and Highlanders have very different faces.)