weak excuses about adding viera

[Doki]

I'd rather they added another unique race than something else recycled from 12.

[Vhailor]

the general reason was was it was too similar to miqo'te to add in the game ....

lets take a step back and look at that . is it a real reason?

Not particularly. But then, I'm willing to bet there are thousands of entitled, not-particularly-wise people out there who would blow a fuse if SE didn't at least try to make some sort of excuse.

The real reason we shouldn't (not necessarily won't; but shouldn't) see Viera is it is an utter waste of development resources. It adds absolutely nothing to FFXIV's content, nothing to FFXIV's storyline. The ONLY benefit would be one more pair of options for an amazingly large contingent of players who seem to want nothing more from an MMO than a dress-up simulator (not that FFXIV is lacking for options in this department).

Personally I wish SE would just come out with a flat "No."

[Nestama]

Naw, he said Viera were too similar to Miqo'te.

[Lithe]

Why are people so hell bent on viera? Is it because of Fran? I honestly don't see the appeal. You have bunny clothes already, use that. If we ever get a new race, please make it unique. We don't need another hyur with animal parts attached.

[Urthdigger]

Why are people so hell bent on viera? Is it because of Fran? I honestly don't see the appeal. You have bunny clothes already, use that. If we ever get a new race, please make it unique. We don't need another hyur with animal parts attached.

It's because way back in 1.0 they ran a poll about what sort of new race people would like to see. They had 5 options: Humanlike, mammalian demi-human, reptilian demi-human, mammalian beastman, and reptilian beastman. They gave examples for each race, and unfortunately for mammalian demi-human they gave the example of "viera". Of course everyone misread that and went "ZOMG I WANT MAH BUNNY GIRLS!" assuming that was a promise that viera would be added to the game if that poll option won. Of course, it won in a landslide.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

It's because way back in 1.0 they ran a poll about what sort of new race people would like to see. They had 5 options: Humanlike, mammalian demi-human, reptilian demi-human, mammalian beastman, and reptilian beastman. They gave examples for each race, and unfortunately for mammalian demi-human they gave the example of "viera". Of course everyone misread that and went "ZOMG I WANT MAH BUNNY GIRLS!" assuming that was a promise that viera would be added to the game if that poll option won. Of course, it won in a landslide.

Yep with a comment by Yoshida underneath saying he regretted putting it as an example.

[Lithe]

I was actually wondering why people seem to have an obsession with the race in general. I don't see the appeal of bunny people or why the gold saucer bunny costume doesn't take care of that.
Edit:spelling

[Hyperia]

Yoshi was pretty solid on his stance on not adding this particular race. I wouldn't expect him to back peddle on this, he has a pretty good history of holding fast in the face of strong public opinion.

Disregard what he said about how Warriors and Astrologians were fine... yep, he wont budge in the face of incredible public opinion.

Coming soon to the Mogstation in 2019: Fantasia: Viera - 60.00

[Krystalmethot]

If they ever bring in viera it will prolly be the only time I become a lala and try my hardest to creat Elmer fud and go wabbit huntin lol

[UsagiAndCrepes]

People should stop making two mutually exclusive arguments together. Either it's too much work to redesign everything for a very different race, or [insert race] is too similar to other races and needs to be more distinct. It's one or the other, it can't be both. So all races will always look similar/humanoid to save work, not a Viera specific issue.


I think Yoshi P is put on the spot a lot but he says a lot of things that can't be true. Like saying adding more appearance options lagging servers like crazy. People have pointed out the appearance data fits into 4 bytes, that's 4 letters of text, so character names have much more data. Increasing the amount of data should only make old beep beep beep modems lag 20 years ago, or having only 500 mb ram total.

I don't blame them because they don't have wikipedia when they answer questions in the spur of the moment but some of the answers to requests are wrong or weak. It can't be helped.