Ok maybe 40 beers and are a blind lalafell.
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I realy want something different, but I doubt we will see anything new and fresh. As it right now:
1. SE does not want to remodel the gear for different body-types, this means that we are always going to get a race that has a human like body/feets/hands etc.
2. SE does not want to spend money to create a race that only a minority of the playerbase will play, that is why we got a cute Au Ra and not a demonic looking one.
3. SE adds the traits of the races that the playerbase likes the most, right now the most played race+gender is: Female Mi'qote, Female Au Ra, Female Lalafell and Female Hyur(midlander), for the males, most played males are of the same race and clan as the females.
If alot of players played Elezen, Hyur Highlander and Roegadyn, then we would have had races that looked more unique and less anime schoolgirl, but this is sadly not what majority of the playerbase likes. We must also not forget that SE listens alot to the Japanese playerbase and its a known thing that Japanese gamers love cute characters, Female Lalafell is the most played race+gender over there.
Knowing SE they are going to add a race that:
1. That makes it easy to remodel the gear for them, so expect a Hyur like body.
2. Has the traits that majority of players like, so expect: females are cute and petit and males are strong and tall.
3. Since they can not create a ugly race, expect a hyur with something like animal ears and tail.
I would love to see a Dwarf or a Charr type of race to be added to this game, but as it is right now, SE will not add them. I guess we should be glad that we atleast have Female Roegadyn, because the odds of having another strong butch female character is not going to happen again.
I know that Yoshi-P took note on that cute races are popular ("Ours being a Japanese game, the result seems to tell us that players are prioritizing cuteness, something which I noted with great interest" near the bottom), but has SE outright stated they will never make a character that is considered ugly?
I wish i could be a nu-mou classy as Ezel Berbier
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/...20061221043726
They all need beards like Ramuh :)
I'd be able to believe that if the Au Ra men weren't 7 feet tall and look anywhere from kinda tough/edgy to down right ridiculous. I don't get why girls have to look so saccharine and then the dudes get freedom to not look small and cutesy like the dudes (Well I do get why but not with this line of logic..). I'd kill for another race with big butch women and big dudes in it, even if it just meant something kind of close to Roegadyn + some various animalistic features.
If you wish a race more animal let's Kimahri Ronso join us :D
https://cdn.weasyl.com/~negger/submi...ahri-ronso.jpg
Dwarfs don't require any gear remodeling. All they need to do is shorten the Roegadyn model:
http://i.imgur.com/tH9XOfU.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/ltwMTYi.png
First I shortened the legs, then I shortened the body down from the neck, then lastly I shortened everything. Boom! New race with a completely new body type. Just slap on beards to male Roes and squish them a bit and that's male dwarfs. Thinking about it, it's so little work there's no reason we shouldn't get dwarfs and Viera (elezen body, miqo'te face, rabbit ears). This combined with new faces to existing races would probably please a lot of demographics who play this game.