Can we please have more flexibility in height for our characters?

[SherlottaEryut]

I mean if we s re going based off lore should we even have a male counterpart as a playable version? I get where you are coming from but just like people mentioned with the male counter parts lore is a lackluster reason because for FFXIV they are the one that establish the lore.

Believe me, I was amongst the group of people who were absolutely infuriated at the idea of male Viera being introduced into XIV. In the end, I figured it was pointless essentially protesting the idea, when the developers had already made the character and already announced it's coming in Endwalker - I have accepted that at this stage because public demand won.

And your last message, I see that but my issue is; I would be the very few people who would stay true to the lore and make the viera medium/max height.. Everyone else would make it the minimum for the sake of being cute. The race is known for being tall and towering over humans - that is what I loved about it and makes them stand out even more. People can argue that a mere 4 inches "wouldnt make a difference" but honestly, it would especially next to a normal sized Viera.

When I came across Viera in XII I was astounded at the site of them, their height, their white hair, tanned skin, long nails etc - you could not mistake a Viera for anything other than their race due to the defining characteristics... Meanwhile, if the minimum height was hypothetically 5'6 I'm just going to assume they're not real viera and they're just no different from the human staff in the gold saucer who are wearing rabbit ears .

I can deal with the developers skipping out on digitigrade feet, longer arms and more bulky posture, basically humanised them even further - they only made these changes because it would've really reduced what we could wear. What I will not stand for is people further adjusting them by wishing they could be smaller in height therefore just completely ruining one of the very few racial difference we have.