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.