Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Komarimono]

I think it really would related to their profits. FFXIV is a lovely game, but I'm not sure how to check their profits and returns like we could on other MMO's. But for costs, they can be massive. Largest example would be the various world and model remakes Word of Warcraft went through. The smallest one, being the Character Models at Warlords of Draenor launch, that cost hundreds of millions to accomplish due to the time frame they had combined with all new mesh, skeleton, animation, and textures.

Don't know about you, but Blizzard pulled it off since they were still swimming in money. I've no idea if SE could even pull it off.

And a video I found, that actually shows the changes. Surprised one was out, but should help people understand some. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODO8SPvv4Uk

And another edit, turns out they had been working on models, textures, everything, mid Mists of Pandaria, so they had nearly two years. Boy that is expensive though...