Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
However, I 100% foresee shoes being an issue for them, but if they can make shoes for chocobos work then I'm confident they can make shoes work for Burmecians. If they can solve the shoes problem, then they should go for it!
The two aren't comparable at all. There are far fewer chocobo bardings than player gear sets and those bardings have been built for chocobos from day one. To accommodate a rat lower half the devs would have to go back and remodel every piece of foot and possibly leg gear in the game from scratch specifically for Burmecians. That is an absolutely gargantuan amount of work, not to mention the additional workload going forward. It also seems incompatible with the gear modeling tools they explained during the technical panel at London Fanfest.

Is it completely impossible by any means known to man? Of course not, but I can't see them ever deeming the juice worth the squeeze on that one. If Burmecians were ever added they would be a Hyur with a rat head which I don't think anyone would be happy with.