Viera are not worth the shortcuts they're taking to make them.

[Unhu]

Rrothgar do feel kinda rushed and viera seem a bit out of place.Personally i dont think this its worth taking development resources/time from other parts of the game.A few more trials/dungeons,a better shb eureka* experience or whatever else the game is lacking would be a better place to spend those resources.

[hasana]

If things like this are too hard to add, I personally would rather have no new race at all.

Wouldn't it have been better to do one really good race in 6.0, and spend all of that time working on a new healer in 5.0?

Better for who?

For the like of me? I don't care about healer or new races so either I'm fine.

For those who wanted new races but don't care about healer?

For the healer who don't care about new races?

Also the people working on class/job design aren't working on race design.

[Racen]

they did not say the headgear would never be available, they said it would not be on launch.

[Floortank]

Better for who?

For the like of me? I don't care about healer or new races so either I'm fine.

For those who wanted new races but don't care about healer?

For the healer who don't care about new races?

Also the people working on class/job design aren't working on race design.

Dunno why you're confused my dude, the point is quite clear. One highly desired piece of content that will improve the gameplay experience, completed and finished, is more desirable than two half completed aesthetics.

[Floortank]

He literally said:

"If things like this are too hard to add, I personally would rather have no new race at all."

Can't argue with his own words. He quite clearly stated that since they didn't implement the race(s) in the way he wanted, they shouldn't have made the new race(s) at all. Which is utterly ridiculous.

I get that you're really excited for Viera or Hrothgar or whatever, but stinting features and launching with half complete crap is why the Realm had to be Reborn in the first place.

[Floortank]

This is a strange conclusion. Someone who can design graphics for a head model is not necessarily someone who can design a job and balance it.

The difficulty of a new race has most to do with the time needed to make all the gear for it.

That's certainly true, and yet we're not talking about committing the same people to a different project. We're talking about committing time and budget to one or the other. Only one person was responsible for the game mechanics of BLU in FFXIV and they worked that in between patches.

[xxvaynxx]

Where did you see this emote/animation showcase to make this claim?

The only thing that was the same was near the end when they did the same idle pose male roes do.

It's obviously just a filler and will be different on release, they did the same with viera with one doing the au ra idle.

[Eli85]

Players, like the OP, need to read interviews a lot more carefully and not leap to conclusions. In no interview (that I read, and I think I read all of them), did Yoshi-P say, "We did not make male Viera because we didn't have time." He does provide a sound, logical explanation for why there are no male Vieras, but it's not because of time, cost cutting, or any other erroneous conclusions people are drawing because it suits their personal agendas.

[Floortank]

I read the interview that was posted Saturday night. Don't go throwing words like "erroneous" around when you aren't even sure you've read it.

[SendohJin]

That's certainly true, and yet we're not talking about committing the same people to a different project. We're talking about committing time and budget to one or the other.

i don't see how they are different. budgets are used to hire people. there's a team in place, using the same budget but different people means firing people on the existing team.

Only one person was responsible for the game mechanics of BLU in FFXIV and they worked that in between patches.

BLU is a side project, not really a valid comparison, BLU mechanics do not have to be balanced against the other casters. a new healer has to be balanced and incorporated into raid design.