Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[WhiteArchmage]

I think that SE is giving XIV enough money tbh. They provide us with a LOT of content, the isseu is that most content dosent appeal to a lot of players. This game has patches that are in scale lets say 2.5/3 of a WoW patch, adn they come a lot more often, but the game spends a lot of its resources in the MsQ and a lot of players only value specific types of content. I dont think the game needs more monye into it, specially seeing how its doing fine commercially

That I completely disagree with, considering Yoshi-P's stance and attitute during Live Letters. When presented with a problem or a particular request from the playerbase, the usual impediments he mentions are manpower and server space. That XIV is likely SE's biggest income-earner wouldn't surprise anyone (in large part because it's an MMO with a sub-based model. So while FF7R surely sold more units than XIV has, XIV has been generating money since ARR), but it's also likely that most of XIV's income goes towards funding other ventures like KH3, Trials of Mana Remake, and FF7R.

Yes, XIV puts out a lot of content, and a lot of VARIED content, and some of it (LoV, PvP, BLU) isn't popular. But I'm certain that a bigger piece of the budget wouldn't hurt:
More money = more servers = more housing, or even a special sub-team specifically dedicated to improve Apartments, making them basically instanced housing.
More money = more developers = more people to playtest every. single. hat mesh. in the game so Viera and Hrothgar can wear them.
QA problems? Throw more QA Assurance people at it so they can playtest M!Viera and F!Hroth animations while the main QA team keeps testing job adjustments.

[Awha]

I think that SE is giving XIV enough money tbh. They provide us with a LOT of content, the isseu is that most content dosent appeal to a lot of players. This game has patches that are in scale lets say 2.5/3 of a WoW patch, adn they come a lot more often, but the game spends a lot of its resources in the MsQ and a lot of players only value specific types of content. I dont think the game needs more monye into it, specially seeing how its doing fine commercially

I do not think that is the case, when it comes to running projects that have a decent incoming cash flow rarely does a company ever put all that much back into the product that brought in the money unless it is the only project they are working on. Though SE probably has FFXIV team focus on MSQ because that is the primary selling point of the game.

I do feel if Yoshi-P had more control over how much money he was able to throw into FFXIV I do not think we would have the issues with housing.

[Joven]

[dustdjinn]

I found this great male viera. He definitely has the youthful face but I love the tattoos. The artist is steelclackers on tumblr.

[Kobalos]

I found this great male viera. He definitely has the youthful face but I love the tattoos. The artist is steelclackers on tumblr.

Those female viera are lucky ladies indeed!

[Lambdafish]

No offense, but that really just looks like my catboy character, but with longer ears. If I had the race/gender that I wanted to play be delayed by an expansion, I would want something a bit more imaginative that a long-eared catboy.

[Awha]

No offense, but that really just looks like my catboy character, but with longer ears. If I had the race/gender that I wanted to play be delayed by an expansion, I would want something a bit more imaginative that a long-eared catboy.

Like a long ear fat cat boi.

[SturmChurro]

No offense, but that really just looks like my catboy character, but with longer ears. If I had the race/gender that I wanted to play be delayed by an expansion, I would want something a bit more imaginative that a long-eared catboy.

Yeah, but he'd be slightly taller.. .wait there are people who want them as tall or shorter than catboys.. Wooh! Long eared cat boy!

[Theodric]

No offense, but that really just looks like my catboy character, but with longer ears. If I had the race/gender that I wanted to play be delayed by an expansion, I would want something a bit more imaginative that a long-eared catboy.

Yeah, I think something more rugged would work better. Still handsome, but reflecting the harsh and solitary lifestyles that they've endured. The body tattoos are a neat touch. Fur patches on the chest and arms could work nicely too. I'd also like something bolder and not just Miqo'te with a bit of extra height and bunny ears instead of cat ears.

Raen/Xaela men look pretty distinct and interesting in a way that doesn't just make them look like a slightly altered Hyur or Miqo'te. So it can definitely be done.

[Melichoir]

Pretty but soft bunny boy

Eh....I mean its good art. Way better than what I can pull off, but its just to...soft and pretty. Looks like a model for abercrombie and fitch or something rather than a lone hunter killer.

Id probably prefer it more like this:

More rugged, sharp, and feral-ish.