Bunny girls aren’t in Final Fantasy XIV because of high-heel shoes

Look, you just can’t have bunny women who dress in lingerie in a video game without putting them in high-heel shoes. That’s just nature. And Square Enix would never screw with nature when it comes to its Final Fantasy games.

The Viera, a race of tall women with rabbit ears who wear thongs to protect themselves in battle in Final Fantasy XII, are not in the massively multiplayer online game Final Fantasy XIV because of their choice of footwear, according to a Finder interview with producer Naoki Yoshida. It turns out that Final Fantasy XIV’s engine struggles to portray character feet in angular footwear, and this has prevented the developer from bringing Viera into the game so far.