Viera For The Win~ 27.3%

[Preypacer]

Text book case of looking futher into it, logically they should have used Miqo'te as the example because its in game and for the reasons above, and Yoshi-P's wording in the letter seems to show it was a mistake adding that (possible leak) or something cheeky to add for discussion, to see what the community thought of the idea.

Why would they bring up a race that's already in-game as an option for a "new race" to be added? That would make absolutely no sense.

It would be like asking "what new types of mounts would you like to see in FFXIV? Large, bird-like creatures (Chocobos)?"

They mentioned Viera as a general example of the kind of race they're describing aside from Mi'qote.

[Noblewar]

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.

The FFXIV Forum Community is only 3% of the 100% who took the poll... Careful who you insult dumb ass.

[fusional]

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.

says the manthra

[Rustyhagun]

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.

You presume that they haven't already been added to the world. We don't know how much "lore time" from meteor hitting to 2.0 going live. So you can't say there is no way to put new races in for 2.0. Plus Yoshi is letting us change our characters come 2.0 and there would be no point to that if a few races weren't being added. I think we will have 2-3 new races to choose from. Meteor is going to unlock a whole new world... so why not make the most of it.

[Delsus]

Why would they bring up a race that's already in-game as an option for a "new race" to be added? That would make absolutely no sense.

It would be like asking "what new types of mounts would you like to see in FFXIV? Large, bird-like creatures (Chocobos)?"

They mentioned Viera as a general example of the kind of race they're describing aside from Mi'qote.

Because it shows what they mean thats all its about, if they use Miqo'te as an example of a mammalian demi-beastman (which is what they are) it would show us what they would look like in game (kind of) and it would show no bias, I personally think Viera would fit into the black shoud very well, however I would not mind seeing other types of mammalian demi-beastmen if the gave a place in the game.

The reason Mamalian demi-beastmen needs an example is because its not as obvious as to what exactly they mean as things like reptilian beastmen.

For all we know Mammalian demi-beastmen could be bunny ixali.

Also this leads me to believe it was snuck in as a kind of hint by Yoshi-P:

though I wonder if they received an unfair advantage because I dropped the name “Viera.” For some reason

If it was an honest mistake I would expect something more like "This could have recived an unfair advantage because I used Viera as an example, I will moniter the forums to see what people say" rather than a quip about it being dropped in for some reason. If it was me saying it that would indicate there is more in it than just an example.

[Rau]

says the manthra

i c wat u did thar

[Goufunaki]

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.

The FFXIV Forum Community is only 3% of the 100% who took the poll... Careful who you insult dumb ass.

[Andrien]

[Sabaku_Usagi]

Kitty violence isn't necessary ; ; We already won the player's poll~

[Delsus]

Hmm the edited pic in the OP is no more slutty than how alot of women walk around in summer, its not like there wearing skirts that barely cover thier asses. So yeah Viera =/= slutty.