Quote Originally Posted by Zyph View Post
Indeed I would not mind something similar to the Viera as a new beastmen(beastwomen?) race. Being an NPC only race, the devs could spend less than 1/8 of the time making a few character models and a few clothes models for them, instead of having to go the full distance and redesign all the player gear that exists to fit their proportions. They could also keep them female-only with few complaints.
Actually, all gear 99% is the same, it is just deformed for each race. To add a new humanoid race just requires setting up the deformations and all the gear will automatically be adjusted.

If the devs tried to add something that wasn't specifically humanoid in shape (ie. Bangaa, Ivalice Moogle, Nu Mou, etc), then yes, it would require rebuilding all gear.