Please change the height of the Veena!

[Enla]

Well if you’re a woman, I think we both know you would not even look twice at men who are as tall or shorter than you. Let’s not even go there lmao

The level of misogyny here is utterly staggering. Am I a woman? Yes. Do I care about the height of my partner? No. Why? Because I'm not shallower than a puddle in the middle of the Mojave unlike some people who can't seem to fathom that other people don't care about height when looking at a partner.

Actually you know what that reminds me, we need a male bosmer equivalent in FF14. And not the Skyrim and beyond variant. I'm talking the short guys from the older titles.

[ForteNightshade]

Well if you’re a woman, I think we both know you would not even look twice at men who are as tall or shorter than you. Let’s not even go there lmao

What I've learned from this thread is both men and women need to fit into a stereotype. And in order for us to be attracted to one another, you need to meet every single one of the stereotypical check box.

[Annoynymoose]

Are we going to keep getting Viera complain threads till 5.0 drops? Lord help me.

[sexythaumaturge]

You already have Miqo'te and Au Ra for your smol anime waifu needs. The taller races are for people who actually have taste and dare to be a bit different.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Ssshhhh, don't bring a midlander into "dare to be different" argument.

[Reeereee]

The fantasia I'm about to drink to change to Au Ra is going to taste even sweeter now that I know there are people out there who are bothered by them.

[Halivel]

Even Feols are tall, the only thing mentioned about them is that their ears are shorter and skin is fair. So, technically, you could cosplay Feol as Veena - just set your ear slider at 0. Also their minimal height is 178.8 cm, it's not that tall really and I say it as somebody with 160cm irl height.


Aside from this, it's fun how about males people scream that we have enough short options when 5 of them are 180+, 2 are just normal height and 1 is noticeably short. But at the same time for females, where only 2 options are 180+, only 2 are 170+, 1 is 150+, 2 are 140+ and 1 noticeably short people continue to ask more short options.

[Aryalandi]

For the rest, I'm certainly not opposed to everyone getting what they want. Honestly I can even understand the people who want more youthful looking characters since what I picture when people request it is late teens like Alphinaud, something about younger characters facing dangerous situations is heroic, look at a lot of popular stories, games, or movies (the Eragon /books/ the legend of zelda games, even various other final fantasy games.)

With Viera we got what we were never even actually promised simply because people wanted it so badly, and one way or another there were going to be people who would be unhappy with that since there are a lot of loud voices unhappy with most everything.

I personally like the way Viera fit neatly between Elezen and Highlanders, because when it comes to it that's exactly where they belong: still fit but not the way highlander girls are, still tall and graceful but not as tall as Elezen girls (unless you count the ears, then they are probably the single tallest race.)

Then they also have the ability to be really stunningly beautiful like miqo'te and au ra characters, or fierce/stern like roes and highlanders.. so literally most everyone can find something to like in their design because the characters you are able to make capture most all of the best aspects of every other race to date.

That said..
I will also agree that it would be nice to see older races get a bit of polish but that is a touchy subject to approach in an mmo because people come to feel such an attachment to their characters.

[SturmChurro]

For the rest, I'm certainly not opposed to everyone getting what they want. Honestly I can even understand the people who want more youthful looking characters since what I picture when people request it is late teens like Alphinaud, something about younger characters facing dangerous situations is heroic, look at a lot of popular stories l, games, or movies (the Eragon /books/ the legend of zelda games, even various other final fantasy games.)

With Viera we got what we were never even actually promised simply because people wanted it so badly, and one way or another there were going to be people who would be unhappy with that since there are a lot of loud voices unhappy with most everything.

I personally like the way Viera fit neatly between Elezen and Highlanders, because when it comes to it that's exactly where they belong: still fit but not the way highlander girls are, still tall and graceful but not as tall as Elezen girls (unless you count the ears, then they are probably the single tallest race.)

Then they also have the ability to be really stunningly beautiful like miqo'te and au ra characters, or fierce/stern like roes and highlanders.. so literally most everyone can find something to like in their design because the characters you are able to make capture most all of the best aspects of every other race to date all in one.

Originally posted in the "Show your Viera" thread:

They're still a full foot shorter than a max height female Roe. https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...arison_female/

With ears included they would be about as tall as a max female roe.