Future Races for FFXIV

[Naunet]

its pretty widely believed that Viera are going to be a future available race in the game.

Ick, I certainly hope not. That'd be like taking Lightning and turning her into a permanent presence in Eorzea. FFXIV should be FFXIV, not "an opportunity to parade around the most desirable characters of our other ~totally imaginative and not at all self-referencing~ games".

Let's see something new! The possibilities are quite literally endless.

It would be most likely (and only natural) that the Padjal are going to be playable. After all, body-wise they're Hyurs, so it wouldnt take a lot, or -any- coding to have armor fit on them and such.

I think this would be even more of a cop-out than those bunny people...

awesome dude

I loved playing as that guy. His animations were so cool. xD

Introducing any new races would require heavy explanation of where they came from, why Eorzea is somehow allowing this new race of people to march through its lands completely unchecked, and why members of this new race would be willing to fight under the Eorzean banner against Garlemald.

That's what story-telling is for. There are people who make a living doing that. They are called writers! I say give them a chance to be creative for once, instead of relying on re-used FF assets. Also, there are at least two other continents on Eorzea we know nothing about.