Viera For The Win~ 27.3%

[Amyas]

how about a mech race?

[DIJIDL]

Sigh, I´m kind of dissapointed with the majority of the people wanting Vieras in this game....

I know, Vieras are cool, I love the race and is great, but the fact is that we have already the mi´qotes, that all the races are pretty humanlike and it would be more easy and believable to see lizardmen as we already have the beastmen, who could changes their heart about the fives races and join them.

I voted for mixed races, but more options for the races we have already appealed to mee too. Personally I love our five races, and this two option offer a LOT of new and interesting choices to create them. With mixed races you can have Viera like character creating the child of a Elezen (long thin ears and elegancy, deep connection to the nature) and Mi´qote(animal ears and tail and some of them animal eyes).

And if we have to add another race, I would preffer and unique and interesting choice. Not another elf/catgirl/human/dwarf/whateverthehelltheroegadynare race, but a more animal/spiritual/monster/aether/crystal/whateveryouwant race.

I wanted to address this separately, because he (it is a he, right... I can never tell with Lalas... Please accept my apologies) expresses his 'disappointment'. A few others have as well, but I like the logic and the counter-stance.

My opinion is: Sure... We could have mixed races. But, how is that out of the realm of over-sexualized or out of place in XIV? Imaginations run wild with diversity. People, in REAL LIFE, still struggle with accepting it. Some people can't party with a German, French, or Japanese players.

While some can't accept something new, they want to embrace an idea of something new through the mashing of the familiar. It's still new.

For example: People have mentioned Burmecian-like races... But, they exist in XIV as they did in XI. Ququrin? (spelling, I know)

To make that work would require a feasible story of how a (for all intensive purposes) rat made out with a chick at a kegger. Then the offspring could share the traits of a human, but display the subdued traits of another mammalian species. (ala-Miqo'te/Mithra in a wierd sense...)

A Viera-like race is an example of something familiar (to FF vets) yet new (to the masses SE needs)... Mixed races, while appealing, can't outweigh need for something familiar. The races we have now are a product of the ONLY other online FF. And A LOT of people have never even played/heard of it. (as far as I know... the peak was 2 or 3 million world-wide, for XI)

Yoshi wants this to be an amusement park. (And many forget he is a gamer) Viera, probably, got mentioned because it was what he imagined the community was thinking. I don't fault the logic, at all. And, obviously he was right. The fans spoke.

A Viera-like race is (imho) more marketable than mixing races that have already been fan-fic'd about 10 years ago.

Yes... It would be awesome to see mixed races. But, the burden of implementing that (I imagine) would be far greater than bringing in something familiar (and popular), into the mix, that didn't require an extensive amount of work/resources.

[Sabaku_Usagi]

I wanted to address this separately, because he (it is a he, right... I can never tell with Lalas... Please accept my apologies) expresses his 'disappointment'. A few others have as well, but I like the logic and the counter-stance.

My opinion is: Sure... We could have mixed races. But, how is that out of the realm of over-sexualized or out of place in XIV? Imaginations run wild with diversity. People, in REAL LIFE, still struggle with accepting it. Some people can't party with a German, French, or Japanese players.

While some can't accept something new, they want to embrace an idea of something new through the mashing of the familiar. It's still new.

For example: People have mentioned Burmecian-like races... But, they exist in XIV as they did in XI. Ququrin? (spelling, I know)

To make that work would require a feasible story of how a (for all intensive purposes) rat made out with a chick at a kegger. Then the offspring could share the traits of a human, but display the subdued traits of another mammalian species. (ala-Miqo'te/Mithra in a wierd sense...)

A Viera-like race is an example of something familiar (to FF vets) yet new (to the masses SE needs)... Mixed races, while appealing, can't outweigh need for something familiar. The races we have now are a product of the ONLY other online FF. And A LOT of people have never even played/heard of it. (as far as I know... the peak was 2 or 3 million world-wide, for XI)

Yoshi wants this to be an amusement park. (And many forget he is a gamer) Viera, probably, got mentioned because it was what he imagined the community was thinking. I don't fault the logic, at all. And, obviously he was right. The fans spoke.

A Viera-like race is (imho) more marketable than mixing races that have already been fan-fic'd about 10 years ago.

Yes... It would be awesome to see mixed races. But, the burden of implementing that (I imagine) would be far greater than bringing in something familiar (and popular), into the mix, that didn't require an extensive amount of work/resources.

/joy someone else seems to understand!

[Valantrix]

What 27.3% want:


What 27.3% get:

I lol'd this... ALOT...

[Kiroh]

I've always really loved Viera and I hope they are added to the game. I'm so tired of the nekoservants known as miqo'te, I want a beast race that actually looks somewhat animal-ish. I also really like that Viera are spiritual/mystic in nature as well as beast-y.

[Sylvari]

I hate Viera, Almost enough to quit the game permanently if they are added. I don't think the game needs more races like to the Miqo'te. I want something different.

[Andrien]

I hate Viera, Almost enough to quit the game permanently if they are added. I don't think the game needs more races like to the Miqo'te. I want something different.

transfer to masamune and give me your gil before you quit please.

[KoujiGeki]

what would be kinda funny is that they only used her name as an eample. so what would you guys think if SE gave something else besides bunny ppl?

[Mudd]

Yeah.. Please no..

See, the only reason I don't want them, is because they would bring a change to the gear design which would make the game start to look more like Tera..
Please no Castanic armors in FF14.

Beyond that, I don't have any problem with Viera, and I'm a huge FF12 fan, but races like the Bangaa would be great additions too. Maybe not exactly, because floppy ears, but something similar.

I think the race tribe variants are how we will get Roeg's their tails back.

[Rustyhagun]

I wanted to address this separately, because he (it is a he, right... I can never tell with Lalas... Please accept my apologies) expresses his 'disappointment'. A few others have as well, but I like the logic and the counter-stance.

My opinion is: Sure... We could have mixed races. But, how is that out of the realm of over-sexualized or out of place in XIV? Imaginations run wild with diversity. People, in REAL LIFE, still struggle with accepting it. Some people can't party with a German, French, or Japanese players.

While some can't accept something new, they want to embrace an idea of something new through the mashing of the familiar. It's still new.

For example: People have mentioned Burmecian-like races... But, they exist in XIV as they did in XI. Ququrin? (spelling, I know)

To make that work would require a feasible story of how a (for all intensive purposes) rat made out with a chick at a kegger. Then the offspring could share the traits of a human, but display the subdued traits of another mammalian species. (ala-Miqo'te/Mithra in a wierd sense...)

A Viera-like race is an example of something familiar (to FF vets) yet new (to the masses SE needs)... Mixed races, while appealing, can't outweigh need for something familiar. The races we have now are a product of the ONLY other online FF. And A LOT of people have never even played/heard of it. (as far as I know... the peak was 2 or 3 million world-wide, for XI)

Yoshi wants this to be an amusement park. (And many forget he is a gamer) Viera, probably, got mentioned because it was what he imagined the community was thinking. I don't fault the logic, at all. And, obviously he was right. The fans spoke.

A Viera-like race is (imho) more marketable than mixing races that have already been fan-fic'd about 10 years ago.

Yes... It would be awesome to see mixed races. But, the burden of implementing that (I imagine) would be far greater than bringing in something familiar (and popular), into the mix, that didn't require an extensive amount of work/resources.

... we are on the same page. I don't even have to comment with you doing all the posting. ^^