Why FFXIV is The Best

[Shurrikhan]

Or in the same timeframe, they could have released one complete race instead of two incomplete ones, which arguably would be easier, since you don't have to create lore for two races.

Lore and easily-meshable arts have always outpaced anything remotely to do with code or fitting components to frames. Remember when we got entirely new Primal weapons because it was easier to just make a line new art assets than allow 2h glamours to work on 1h weapons? Meanwhile, every new race has fit precisely upon a prexisting frame. They're not even making any efforts whatsoever to hide that our new Derpcats are just reskinned Roes.

It is not bad plain and simple. You don't get quality if you keep changing your own lore. Star Wars did that. It created a weird unwieldy EU for a long time with some of it god and some of it really bad. If SE implemented male Viera as a playable race, it would be lowering their standard.

Well, it's a good thing we'll never had any quests remotely to do with protecting the forest, since male Viera's role as a wandering protector of their realm is so antithetical to being an adventurer.

Also, I remember people asking for Ronso or a more bestial race.

Yes, right about the time we got a badass concept art for Au Ra and then were given basically-Hyur 3.0 for the females. The males, at least, were reasonably distinct.

You asked for Viera and got it. It's a race where we only ever see the females for lore reasons. As a result, we ended up with male only Ronso to balance it out. It's really not that complicated.

And I'd be fine with that, if they just actually had some variety to the feel of each. As they stand now, it feels like the diversity provided amounts to little more than an added face or two to Aura/Hyur/Elezen females together and Roe males specifically.

If the variety of Viera was just a bit more -- increasing the chance of a stance and face I actually like -- I'd be happy. If the Ronso didn't look stupid as heck when running and had some variety in body shape (as per different clans), rather than just different fur patterns (equivalent to hair color), so that they could be more than just squat furry-Roes, I'd be happy. But at least as present, they're painfully limited, to the point I'd much rather see more customization for the existing races if each additional race is going to curtail future customizations further.