weak excuses about adding viera

[Tint]

what happens when a Viera equips the bunny ears? questions like that don't have to bother the devs when there is no Viera. so why should they add them? they have to redesign nearly ALL headpieces to fit with the ears. with Aura they were going the cheap way by adding the horns were elezen have their ears, so no redesign necessary, but Viera?

[Texa]

what happens when a Viera equips the bunny ears? questions like that don't have to bother the devs when there is no Viera. so why should they add them? they have to redesign nearly ALL headpieces to fit with the ears. with Aura they were going the cheap way by adding the horns were elezen have their ears, so no redesign necessary, but Viera?

There's a cat ear accessory that works just fine with miqo'te.

Viera ears wouldn't look like fake costume ears.

[Nixxe]

How about the viera are extremely bland to begin with and doubly so in a game already somewhat crowded with human/animal hybrid races? If they're going to add another race, make it something that's actually even remotely original relative to the existing races. We don't need 16 flavors of the same basic idea. This game's races are already too similar, but that's not a good reason to keep doubling down on the same flawed design.

[Vanitas]

WABBIT season will never come.

[Tint]

i would like a Viera race similar to the Papitaur race from White Knight Chronicles ^^

but the playboy bunnys from FF12..? _._

we need more small races anyway ^^/

[JunseiKei]

Most of the time, when I see people supporting the idea of adding the Viera, they post pictures of Fran, usually showing off her figure. This leads me to believe that many want Viera for the attractiveness of the race that was made a staple in FFXII. Not from Tactics, despite Viera being present in these games as well. Whether or not this is true is another story. I don't mind as long as people then don't go on to request for Viera-specific armor.

To be specific, I hardly saw images like this:

and saw more images like this (actually saw quite a few Fran cosplayers):

when it came for supporting images in Viera request threads

The other thing people tend to keep showing are the Au Ra concept art featuring a leporidae-like race. That's the thing- it's Au Ra concept art, showing the SE team was trying to decide how to make the Au Ra look. We wound up with lizard-like, or dragon-like, features, but could have also as easily wound up with the leporidae look. Personally, I'm glad FFXIV went with a more-original race; it's bad enough people say FFXIV is a [spiritual] sequel to FFXI because Hyur look like Hume, Roegadyn look like Galka, Lalafell look like Tarutaru, Elezen look like Elvaan and Miqo'te look like Mithra. Even if that's where all the similarities end. I'd like to see Viera added- as another non-playable race. Outside of beast-like creatures (dragons, Quirin, Moogles, Ixali, Kobalds, you get the idea), all we have are the Padjal, which are just a mutation of the Hyur specific to the Black Shroud. I suppose you can count the Garleans as well.

[Bloody]

Nice bait title. I know you and a portion of these forums are diehard bunny girl fans, but please. This is getting ridiculous. We don't need Viera, we need more options for the current races so we don't see the same 10 set ups being reused over and over again.

[ErikMynhier]

The Viera are the worst man. If anything, and I don't think we need a new race, but an avian or a amphibian.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

[Nestama]

ok miqo'te to viera how their similar : both are animal variations ... to that end both elezan and rygoden are hyur variations and au rah is another animal variation..... so...no that reason does not stand.

To be fair, Yoshi-P's team did not create the five races. That was Tanaka's team and they based them off of the FFXI races. The only races Yoshi-P's team has worked on is: Female Roegadyn, Female Highlander, Male Miqo'te and the Au Ra.

Also, you could easily make Viera a third clan for the Miqo'te. Just make them taller, have longer ears and no tail (because a stub isn't going to be seen under all of that gear).