Viera For The Win~ 27.3%

[Theplatter]

Point is, viera are already too much like miq'ote; a cute race with slightly animalistic features. If you need animalistic, leave out the cute, I'm not playing Pokemon or Kirby here.

[Zahak]

Are you sure you all don't want a revote? D:

[Coombah]

I will reserve my comment till i see concept art and / or other info

[DeadRiser]

Lol at the people hating on Viera, when their main characters are boring Hyurs.

And if they didn't add Viera, there WILL be a sh*tstorm on the forums since they even slightly mentioned Viera. Doesn't matter if they didn't, people still voted for that just because they had that name there.

On that note, I would be sad if whatever they add wasn't available at 2.0 ;-;

[Theplatter]

Admittedly, they did screw themselves by dropping the name "viera" in the poll, so now it looks like we're all screwed...

[DeadRiser]

If we do get Viera (and I think we will get the race - if not the name) I hope they go with the FFXII 'quiet and and elitist' design -


Rather than the FFT:Advance cutesy approach - (we already have cutesy Mi'qote)


What will really be key is if they get the voices right for them.

Don't want them to go the slutty route though... its far too pedestrian and an absurdly easy-target when designing bunny-girls. (leave that cheap crap to the fly-by-night MMOs).

This^^^^^^^^^^

People view them as a cute race, and I do not.

They are spiritual wood living creatures. They have ways opposite of the races we have now. Their lore is quite interesting and seeing them in Eorzea is no problem for me. PLUS I would LOVE to see male counterparts much like the male Miqote.

[Andrien]

I view them as people that respects nature. Like an Amazon'ish tribe that keeps to themselves.

[MikkoAkure]

Whatever they add, if they even decide to add anything, won't be available when 2.0 comes out. 2.0 development is already too far along for that. If they're just now starting to get ideas for the possibility of a new race, it wouldn't happen for a long time. There's a lot of things to consider when you implement something like this. You have to come up with a way to integrate it into the current universe, you need to make designs for it, and most labor intensively, you have to make new designs of every single armor in existence for it.

I'm sure Yoshi regrets using the word "Viera" because what comes out, if anything, certainly won't be a Viera. I'm not particularly thrilled about a new race, but I look forward to seeing what they come up with. I just hope it's not super insanely popular like miqos currently are. At least on my server hyur are more unique and interesting than the flood of kitties.

[Wolfie]

The FFXIV forum community seriously has like zero imagination. Instead of asking for a new or different race... they ask for another slutty animal race from previous games.

[Zyph]

Yeah, Yoshi-P admitted it was a loaded question. We're not getting Viera, he was just using Viera as a familiar example. You guys are morons.

Also there was no indication of them being PLAYABLE races, these "Mammalian demi-beastmen" may just as well for all we know be a new beastmen tribe of NPCs.