weak excuses about adding viera

[Texa]

They were talking from when they first planned in adding a new race (3.0). The reason they didn't add Viera for 4.0 is the work part, and not because it would look like a miqo'te. I'm pretty sure if they ever decide to make a new race, it would be Viera.

AH I see.

I think that's the most likely choice at this point too. I wouldn't mind they would fit in the general look the world has going for it. I just hope they keep the girls tall like they were in XII.

[Kyuuen]

See, even if I understand that point I find it to be rather weak one:
FFXIV is the only real competitor to the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft, if you really want to compete you need to at least try and match what they do, over the course of their expansion they added new races, improved the old ones, added customization. Now I do understand that is probably easier for WoW due to the different art style, but still, Square Enix is not exactly the indie company developing pixel games in the basement of your apartment building. They have the power to invest in the game, and if ou want to keep old players invested and find new players those are the sort of things you kinda have to do.

WoW is a rather poor example. The only times you can list when they released new PC races was WoW > BC with Blood Elves/Draenei and Cata > MoP with Goblin/Worgen and Pandaren. Considering the game came out 13 year ago that averages out to a new PC race/s every four-ish years.

[ZioSerpe]

i think
there are things way more important waiting to improve/fix than adding another Hyur-Animal hybird race
and if they going for some very different race, like a beastmen, they would have to model existing equipment, mount, emote etc for a new race, those resource could be use in better way like improving the some CoL thing, big job balance patch...etc

Gee I am so done with this argument.
They are not an hyur-animal hybrid, if they were I'd have no intrest in it, but their body type is different, Viera body type should similar to elezeen, but hopefully not looking like transgenders...

[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]

[Ririta]

I just hope they keep the girls tall like they were in XII.

But that's not kawaii.

[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).