Who doesnt want gear restrictions removed?

[Absurdity]

No, you don't seem to get it.

No, you don't seem to get it. THEY ARE ALL BASED ON MIDLANDER FEMALES.

This means that they need to create ONE model for female armor. Yes, it replaces your actual character's body with the armor and yes, they do need to create said armor from scratch. BUUUUUT they would have to do so anyway for the already existing races we have, ONCE. Regardless of whether you're a Viera, a Miqo'te, an Au Ra, a Highlander, a Femroe or a midlander, it is the exact same armor model for ALL OF THEM. There are outliers as I have already stated but even those share a model between each other and since those races already exist they have to make said armor for them anyway. Male Roegadyn already existed from the start and Hrothgar use the exact same model for their armor, there was no additional work besides creating the male Roegadyn armor.

So if they were to add new races it would have no influence on their workload in that regard.


What is true is that they need additional resource to develope their unique assets, animations, emotes, voices, the general character design and it's customization options. These are all things that need to be created from scratch but armor is not one of those. Unless they add a race that is so different from all the existing ones that they need a unique model. For example if they added a race that has digitigrade legs, then they would need to create unique models for every leg armor and every pair of shoes in the game, this would certainly be a massive amount of extra work.

Which is, I believe, one of the reasons that Viera have normal human feet and not the feet from FF12, because it would've required too much extra work to make a unique model for every shoe in the game.