Letter from the Producer LXII

[Eloah]

What you're saying makes sense for the restaurant, since the main reason your going to it is to eat those dishes. But it doesn't for FFXIV case since the new races aren't the main reason people are going to play the expansion. That's the core difference between the two cases.

Exactly, that's why I said it was an oversimplification. There are definitely other factors, but it's the expectation of getting one set of options only to find out you have a slightly different set available, which seems to contradict the original set in a way.

Personally, I doubt I would change to another "given" race, but I feel bad for people who don't have the option now; especially a friend of mine who wanted to be a bunnyboi, lol. Now I'm caught up in this whole loli/shouts debacle. I would like more options for cuter males. Let me be a Ivalician moogle please, lol.

[Agaziel]

Personally, I doubt I would change to another "given" race, but I feel bad for people who don't have the option now; especially a friend of mine who wanted to be a bunnyboi, lol. Now I'm caught up in this whole loli/shouts debacle. I would like more options for cuter males. Let me be a Ivalician moogle please, lol.

But you have cuter males already with miqo-te, elezen, Au ra all you are requesting you already have I can understand you or your friend want to play male viera and that motive is indifferent to me in game because its not that I will play but I agree the more diversity in game the better.

To add diversity doesn't imply a use of the same models would be more interesting in game concept perspective to do something from the scratch, since for males you already have Roes and Hrothgar for that difference.

[Halivel]

But you have cuter males already with miqo-te, elezen, Au ra all you are requesting you already have I can understand you or your friend want to play male viera and motive is indifferent in game because its not that I will play it but I agree the more diversity in game the better.

To add diversity doesn't imply a use of the same models would be more interesting in game concept perspective to do something from the scratch, since for males you already have Roes and Hrothgar for that difference.

Elezens and Au Ra aren't really "cute", imo (sorry, but Au Ra males have eternal "stone-macho-face", it's not cute at all). But if males have at least some options (Miqo'te, mainly, and even with them there are places for argue mostly because they aren't really elegant), those who wanted beast-looking females got nothing. They received another waifus, as if we didn't have tones of them already (upd, just to clarify: I like how female Vieras look, but... c'mon...).

[Insertcoins]

Elezens and Au Ra aren't really "cute", imo (sorry, but Au Ra males have eternal "stone-macho-face", it's not cute at all). But if males have at least some options (Miqo'te, mainly, and even with them there are places for argue mostly because they aren't really elegant), those who wanted beast-looking females got nothing. They received another waifus, as if we didn't have tones of them already (upd, just to clarify: I like how female Vieras look, but... c'mon...).

I think what everyone is missing is that the Viera males would've been JUST like those choices tho. So noone would've been happy either way. " Why you make them like Elezens? " why do I say this? Cause YP already said thats how he'll make them and noone is honoring that. THey keep asking for options Yoshi is never going to make. Like child PCs.

[Halivel]

I think what everyone is missing is that the Viera males would've been JUST like those choices tho. So noone would've been happy either way. " Why you make them like Elezens? " why do I say this? Cause YP already said thats how he'll make them and noone is honoring that. THey keep asking for options Yoshi is never going to make. Like child PCs.

According to what I saw in support thread, most of active people there were okay with his "slim, handsome, elegant, more like Elezen with Miqo'te face" description ("more like Elezen" doesn't mean copy, I suppose he just wanted to give an idea. And since females seems to be mix of Hyur and Elezens, males could be similar to them). There were also people who wanted to see them shorter than females (which doesn't really mean that they have to look like children. Females are quite tall). And ofc there are people who wants to see another bulky race or wanted to see child model, but I doubt that they are even 1/3 of those who askes for males at all (can't say for sure, since I'm not telepath, and a lot of people don't write anything in threads or do not specify how they want to see them).