Quote Originally Posted by Ametrine View Post
Well, the Au Ra were meant to both appeal to the biggest demographics of players possible, yet still be reasonable to implement.

If we got the concepts above, we may be grasping for a cutesy option as they may have just become "scaly Highlander/Roe girls" instead of "scaley Miqo'te/Midlander girls." (And we got players claiming Viera would be like Elezen with rabbit ears.)



Back on topic, "Allagans did it," seems too reasonbly on point for an explanation behind a set of altered Moogles, lol.
Given what the production art suggests, the dev team probably couldn't figure out a way to do the feet for a "bunny-girl" type of race, and went with the Au ra concept instead.

If we let the developers cut as many corners as possible, they would actually just recycle the elezen gear models and change the head gear. The problem is that the Viera actually have a different foot shape and way of moving because of it. Even if the devs wanted to redesign 200 pieces of foot gear for them, that still leaves the problem of the player rig being different, thus the gear wouldn't work properly when animated.

Like, I totally get why we haven't seen any additional races, and this also presents the same kind of problem with adding any playable race that has different shaped heads or feet. All the other "races" in the game are a single model with no gear.

For "moogles" of any sort, would require repurposing the potato-lalafell models, and I just don't see that working as well as others do.