Burmecian Race

[ValyrianBlood]

The current races we have:
Human
Human but cat ears
Human but pointy ears
Human but buff
Human but short and has pointy ears
Human but with random patches of scales and horns
Lion man
Human but bunny ears


You were saying?

See the thing is they need to adjust every single piece of gear for each new body type - that's why we have only really human-looking races.
That's the reason Hrotgar and Viera can't wear most headgear - it's 'just' a single piece and not the whole set they need to adjust and it's still a HUGE undertaking.
Now imagine how much work it would be to adjust ALL the gear for a race like this (that only a small fraction of ppl would play, anyway).

Also, I'm all for no new races and expanding customization on the current ones.

But the thing is, if they said they didn't think they could add any more because it would stretch resources too thin, and then re-evaluated and concluded that they could maybe afford this one more highly requested "extra race" after all... that doesn't sound like they're open to making another exemption for yet another race that is even more unusual and non-human-shaped than the current ones. It sounds like they've stretched to their limit.

That's not even that, the devs literally worked in their free time to make male Viera happen. I honestly wouldn't want that to become a thing in the future.
https://www.siliconera.com/ffxiv-mal...rk-on-patches/

Here’s Yoshida’s exact quote about how the team ended up being able to add male Viera to FFXIV. He also went over what the staggered tactic will mean for Endwalker.

However, there was a significant amount of people around the world asking for male Viera and female Hrothgar—which was expected of course—but I was going to follow through with my stance of not adding any more playable races. At the same time, our graphics staff on the development team wanted to explore all options to see what they could do to figure out a way to somehow realize this request from the players.

They spent over half a year using what free time they had in between their normal work on the patches to consider ways to add another playable race. From this they concluded that we could probably squeeze in just one more at this time. (...)

I mean of all the races they could add, you expect them to spend all that resources to play as rats? LMAO.

Honestly lmao

[Iscah]

That's not even that, the devs literally worked in their free time to make male Viera happen. I honestly wouldn't want that to become a thing in the future.
https://www.siliconera.com/ffxiv-mal...rk-on-patches/

My understanding is that, at least, "free time" means "downtime at work" and not outside of work hours. But still it sounds like they are absolutely squeezing in what time they can to make this happen.

Maybe they really thought the split Viera/Hrothgar was the last race they could add, or maybe they wanted to hold one last slot for a future race and thought that the split race covered the things that people most wanted in the meanwhile. But now they're using that final slot (and putting in the related work) ahead of schedule to give us the other halves of the races.

The current limitations on Viera and Hrothgar also highlight why we won't get a more beast-bodied race in future. Everything would need to be massively adapted and tested for them, or quite likely they would miss out on whole chunks of glamour options because of the extra work required. Additionally they would probably look awkward in outfits designed for humans.

It's a very different situation to building specific NPCs who have a single outfit that can be designed to suit their body shape.

[Vipes]

I mean of all the races they could add, you expect them to spend all that resources to play as rats? LMAO.

Rats are the hit new internet meme. It’d be crazy not to!

See the thing is they need to adjust every single piece of gear for each new body type - that's why we have only really human-looking races.
That's the reason Hrotgar and Viera can't wear most headgear - it's 'just' a single piece and not the whole set they need to adjust and it's still a HUGE undertaking.
Now imagine how much work it would be to adjust ALL the gear for a race like this (that only a small fraction of ppl would play, anyway).

Granted, Burmecian's body may be a bit out of the norm, but Ivalician Moogles are so close to Lalafell, that adjusting the gear could just be as simple as putting it on them. The only real issue, like with Hroth and Viera, would be the headgear. Possibly the animation, but XII has a plethora of animations to reuse/refit. That being said, I do see Burmecian being Elezen's counter and Ivalice Moogle would be Lalafell's, just as Hrothgar is Roegadyn's.

[Jettinson]

Would love but I will go to the crowd of asking to improve the other races customization.

It hurts to say but with how Viera and Hrothgar are handled, I wouldn't imagine burmecian or other similar races to be treated...

[Vipes]

Would love but I will go to the crowd of asking to improve the other races customization.

It hurts to say but with how Viera and Hrothgar are handled, I wouldn't imagine burmecian or other similar races to be treated...

While I see your point, it might just be a hard fact we have to live with. To some, that might be a fair compromise, while to others it is not. For me however, I would be ok with the compromise if it meant I could play as either burmecian or ivalice moogle.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I mean of all the races they could add, you expect them to spend all that resources to play as rats? LMAO.

Why not?
Sure we have lizards, wolves, elephants, cats, swine, fish people, moogles and such....
But why not Rat People?

[Tsiron]

Qiqirn are basically most of the way there already, but I don't see this (or others people have been asking for, like Bangaa) happening because the snout would basically make it impossible for them to wear helmets, if Hrothgar (and their still mostly flat faces) are any indication. Slight tangent, but I really wish they'd pushed their current races further during the design phase that people wouldn't be able to just call them "human but with X"

[-JayJay-]

I don't know why the Qiqirn keep being mentioned as if the game can only have one species of a race. The Ixal and Vanu Vanu are both bird like races. The Miqo'te and Hrothgar are two feline based races. I don't know why it seems like Qiqirn and Burmecians (Or what FFXIV's equivalent of Burmecians would be at least) both can't coexist as rodent races. And on another note, I also don't understand why every time a new playable race is suggested people hop in and mention expanding/updating current character customization options as if we don't want that or to imply that some of us aren't already on the same page. Honestly, I'd rather them improve the character creation first before considering a new playable race (if they ever) so they don't run into so many issues implementing them or at least have less issues with the process.