weak excuses about adding viera

[Kosmos992k]

Lies and falsehoods.

Good examples, though I can't help feeling that there should have been a female Highlander in the mix as well - unfortunately I have no screens of one to share...

[Khalithar]

Good examples, though I can't help feeling that there should have been a female Highlander in the mix as well - unfortunately I have no screens of one to share...

[Mikanika]

..this reminds me of a Q&A I've seen were the audience asked about a 'butt slider' or at least some different butt options (bigger of course). Naoki Yoshida stood up and (jokingly) started to leave the stage. He didn't though and preceded to explain that every character add on would increase data going back and fourth from clients to servers, which would increase the volume of the data stream and perhaps cause slower game performance.
May be true but, other games have a ton of character options and they seem to stream just fine.
Although, it would be cool to see another race in game, I agree that time spent on the development of new races could be applied to existing character models. Don't get me wrong, our toons look awesome but.. some features/textures do appear a bit dated and, who wouldn't want some more choices when it comes to creating that perfect character...

[Masekase_Hurricane]

FFXIV version has a tail:

Wouldn't go by that here is Au Ra's original concept :P

[Fawkes]

But Viera don't have tails though.

Maybe not but they have weird high heel claw feet that SE would ignore and stuff into hyur shoes 80% of the time.

[ErikMynhier]

being afraid of change is to invite stagnation ... stagnation leads to bordam . and the finding of new things to play .... u make it sound as if you want FFXIV to fail rather then permote accual growth in the game .... bare in mind the world of eorza is not fully charted and growing that and given the explination of the worlds in story then it stands to reason that both all jobs past used and races past seen should be either present or have a place in history both options to be used or not at their descression.

Just because someone disagrees with your opinion doesn't mean they want the game to fail. You're sounding a bit self-important there buddy. Game doesn't rise and fall to your whim mate.

[Atlaworks]

Just because someone disagrees with your opinion doesn't mean they want the game to fail. You're sounding a bit self-important there buddy. Game doesn't rise and fall to your whim mate.

Frankly, the topic and first few posts have that same air of indignation to them. Like, everything seems to be "You want the game to fail for not putting something I want in" and "the excuses you gave for not doing the thing I want are weak" and "Do you think I'm dumb for accepting your reasons".

People gotta learn what opinions are and the weight they carry, yo.

[ErryK]

Wouldn't go by that here is Au Ra's original concept :P

Does it matter? We're not getting Viera yet. People need to get over that fact.

[Misutoraru]

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...

of coz a beastmen race would be a way better than Hyur-animal hybrid
but my reason remain, all those resource spending on remodeling equipment, animation etc could be spend on some content that require higher priority

[Shurrikhan]

Every MMO that is 3D has this. It's not unique to FFXIV.

Others at least have ways of mitigating the issue, such as by allowing for more form-fitting clothing, varying idle arm position based on clothes thickness where it would otherwise clip, having more adjustable hair, and/or having on-the-fly options to tie one's hair up and out of the way.

[We already have mature, competent, yet sensual female character types.

Heck, if they'd just allow for one more face option each and cross-selectable animations for our "cutesy" races, we could have a lot more of that. I play cat for the running animation.

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On topic:

I'd love to see a new race that actually adds something to the story of the game. Consider, for instance, an expansion built around the theme of warped reality, and in turn you have a beastman pseudo-race of varying appearance based on their belief systems or ways of life, who (spoiler) each collectively subtly control reality around themselves, to the point of being able to laugh the idea of a dragon being able to fly to the point that one plummets to its death upon entering their territory, even while being able to control water or their own bloodflow or some other ridiculously impossible thing as if it were common sense. Now you have a race that's worth studying, interacting with, for one's own reasons, and an origin concept that might even allow for appearance changes in one's own character without requiring that somehow you've always been this rare race unknown to Eorzea whose identity, simply, no one noticed.

Alternatively, you could make the new race, and the story content surrounding it, a means of creating a "boosted" character. Based on your main's level and chosen backstory, you take up the same story you'd be running parallel to on your main at the time of the race's creation, just starting a bit lower or with a less rounded build, lasting up until the point where your two characters could even potentially meet, in person. At that point, you have three options: keep the characters separate, merge your alt's progress into your main, or merge your main's progress into your alt to experience some adjusted (as in a boosted character) MSQ before moving on from where your main was.