What new race would you like?

I'd take Vieras, XII's/Tactics Advance take on Moogles (Lala sized with fur, a pom pom, and mini wings) , or a feathered race.

Hybrid options like pointy-eared hyur or Lala'qote.

Something that didn't get knocked up by a Hyur? The concept arts SE released (even Vierra) were actually unique feeling.

If we can't have something that is 'different' (and personally I'd like to play a bulky beast influenced race, like early concept released recently even Au Ra) then perhaps a way to have hybrid races- then we can (sort of) ignore parts of the race we dont like (for example, skinny waisted Au Ra).

I would love to see more totally original races for XIV. Like maybe a race of insect-like humanoids with different types of wings, like dragonfly wings or scarab beetle wings.
For the moment though, I'm happy with Au Ra.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

I would love to see more totally original races for XIV. Like maybe a race of insect-like humanoids with different types of wings, like dragonfly wings or scarab beetle wings.
For the moment though, I'm happy with Au Ra.

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giant cockroach humanoids?? wahaha id fantasia to 1 of those just to creep people out :P

An actual beast race; presumably one that's small and cute. Instead of a human with a few animal-like accessories.

Well, most MMORPGs follows the same formulars:

- Human/Hyaran (The standard race! No MMO without Humans)
- Highelf/Elezen/Newman (The elf race! Pretty common in most MMOs)
- Baraka/Roegadyn/Orc (The big race! Muscular males, ugly females)
- Elin/Lalafell/Dwarf (The tiny race! Mostly cute (female) characters)
- Castanic/Miqote (The porn race! The less you wear, the better it looks)
- Aman/Argonian/Au Ra (The evil race! Horns and glowing eyes)


I would say, it would be awesome to play as a Lamia (females only!).

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploa...74zqjv01n5.jpg

Half human, half snake. But in fact that this race have no feet, it would be to hard to implement and the character would be extremely long because of its tail -_-

But now we have the Au Ras and I m ok with them. I would totally love to see a Hybrid between Lamias and Au Ras (Au Mia), but thats a bit too special I guess xD

I'd really like an Allagan themed cyborg/robot race --

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...0fd31c2bc6.jpg

http://media.salon.com/2013/12/coffee_robot.jpg

https://static.squarespace.com/stati...0w/462483.jpeg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d5e96c9a36.jpg

And also bird people --

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...by_sandara.jpg

(I'd have posted more bird people but that pic captured pretty much everything I wanted)

Edit: Another cyborg/robot pic

http://www.cartoontreasure.com/wallp...-2560x1440.jpg

Perhaps something with hooves.

Just let me play a moogle. Kupo.

Male and Female Viera, with muscle sliders <3 and body types (extra lean male <3) and dont forget the super pale skin and options to change the ear length/style *faints*

Other than that ...featherfolk from Star Ocean?

+1 for Viera!

and the FFTA Moogles kupo ♥

I really like the faun as well. I think the above mentioned allagan/cyborg race would fit in though I don't care for them personally.

I agree that the way gear is modeled contributes to the reason why so many races are the basic shape of humans. In some other games when more beastly races were added (especially when added late) there were problems with gear fitting and clipping.

Just look at the au ra vs what we have now. Miqote and au ra females look like cosplayers to me. Basically cutesy humans with glued on ears/scales/tails. The males' physique is (to me) very much like the male elezen. Had the au ra been more dragony they'd probably have their faces clipping out of helms (if they even fit) and pants not covering the legs correctly, as example.

It'd be a lot of work to go back and redo all gear models for one race that would probably not even be nearly as popular as going the cute humanlike cosplayer route. Look how popular fem roe turned out, even though people kept going on about how amazing female counterparts (to galka) would be if implemented years ago. (I do love these and have an alt fem roe but never made it past 20 or so due to time constraint)

Crow Fall has some nice looking races that I'm interested in playing. Minotaurs and Centaurs for starters. Also, a lot of the races from Bless look great.

I enjoy FF's aesthetic but I agree we need more non-human looking races.

Ranso kthnxbaii

Well, I guess we get Viera with the next expansion, because the latest concept arts looked very promising:

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploa...8iy4vxn0lq.jpg


I m still ok with the current Au Ra, nothing much need to be changed. The original concepts are pretty interesting and I totally love the drawing style : D

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploa...u18rkgn3b4.jpg

Aside from the lalas, the females from every race look like their waist is smaller than my bicep. I'd like to see more females with curves. I'd also like to see a race that's more bestial.

While I don't know how other MMOs handled this particular conundrum (if that conundrum even exists), a problem with adding beastial races to FFXIV is that the game has a pretty clear division between the "player races" and the "beastman races". There's a reason why Ixali can refer to a player as "smoothskin" and for it to make sense regardless of what race they are! If true furries were added to the game, there'd have to be a reason why they're not just considered to be another variety of beastman.

That's the biggest reason why I doubt we'll ever see a furry race in FFXIV. Just humans with variants of size, limb proportions, and animal bits.

Viera would be awesome, problem is trying to fit them in somewhere to go with the game's lore. Unless dev team makes something up to accomodate them in distant future releases.

*shrugs* IDK...

Nagas!!!!! ... uh... mmm, sorry, wrong game.
But well, they are mythological creatures, they could fit in any game

Angels and Fairys!! >>

looks like SE just CAN'T deviate from the basic body shapes we already have have.... so I would like to see the next "beast-like" race to be based off something other than hyur..

Wolf/Bear race using Rogydens body frame

Bunny/Deer race using Lalafells body frame

Angel/Bird race using Elzaans body frame

I also REALLY hope all races will get a ton more customizing options! like at least 2 more face types for each race and beards/scars for all.

Also, Miqot'e really need more beast like options... scruffy tail/ears, face markings, fur patches etc.

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Originally Posted by Enthy

looks like SE just CAN'T deviate from the basic body shapes we already have have.... so I would like to see the next "beast-like" race to be based off something other than hyur..

Wolf/Bear race using Rogydens body frame

Bunny/Deer race using Lalafells body frame

Angel/Bird race using Elzaans body frame

I also REALLY hope all races will get a ton more customizing options! like at least 2 more face types for each race and beards/scars for all.

Also, Miqot'e really need more beast like options... scruffy tail/ears, face markings, fur patches etc.

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I would prefer SE just give us more options for the current races then anything. Maybe say the next expansion just don't give us a new race but gives us a wider range of customization.

I would really dig a Ronso type race.

Also -- This race would be awesome ( i know they are technically moogles from 12 but) http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070325003033/finalfantasy/images/e/e7/XII-moogles.jpg

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Originally Posted by Caitlyn

Well, I guess we get Viera with the next expansion, because the latest concept arts looked very promising:

http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploa...8iy4vxn0lq.jpg

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This is everything I wanted. They look beautiful in the concept art. Tall, elegant (and proportional unlike Elezen lol), and beautiful.

My friends told me not to cry and when they showed me that there was concept art... I was on the verge of tears lol

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Originally Posted by DeadRiser

This is everything I wanted. They look beautiful in the concept art. Tall, elegant (and proportional unlike Elezen lol), and beautiful.

My friends told me not to cry and when they showed me that there was concept art... I was on the verge of tears lol

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Elezen in the concept art were proportional. So if they do bring in new races prepare for the watered down model just so the designers can be lazy and use one armor that fits all models.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...XIV-elezen.jpg

Btw check out the curves and thin waist on that female elezen, ACTUAL CURVES!!!

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Originally Posted by Talia_Hailwind

Elezen in the concept art were proportional. So if they do bring in new races prepare for the watered down model just so the designers can be lazy and use one armor that fits all models.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...XIV-elezen.jpg

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Agreed, the concept art doesn't always mean it'll look exactly like it in the game:
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...FXIV_Art_1.jpg

(Viera) cause of this
i dont think its an excuse for we couldnt get conterpart of male viera there are many many viera male sketch in internet and most of them looks great OFC, SE can handle this to create a male viera im sure its as easy as pie for them


http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...ts-d5k1a9b.jpg
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...ts-d5k1bg2.jpg

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Originally Posted by Suda

I understand its for variety. I just think its odd when people ask for beastly races in other MMO's and most of the time they are the least played race in the game. For a game like this I feel it would be the case as well. Why put all the effort into making a race a majority of your player base wouldn't even play.

Makes me wonder if SE thought the same way with the Au Ra. I know they said if people really wanted a beastly race they would consider it for the next race.

I guess it would be cool to see more beast like races though. I just wouldn't play one myself.

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For reference, "Furry" people do exist and they're the ones that ask for this. They're also the ones that are always disappointed in "catgirl" types. Take a look at Archeage, the reference "cat people" (Firran) looked more like a fuzzy knock off of FFXIV, but what wound up in the game is furrier and horribly ugly compared to the concept art. Fur is just terrible to animate for low-poly MMORPG models, so it winds up being "fur textures." The end result is always awful. The other three races in that game are sarcastically referred to as "european human, asian human, and LOTR elf"

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While I don't know how other MMOs handled this particular conundrum (if that conundrum even exists), a problem with adding beastial races to FFXIV is that the game has a pretty clear division between the "player races" and the "beastman races". There's a reason why Ixali can refer to a player as "smoothskin" and for it to make sense regardless of what race they are! If true furries were added to the game, there'd have to be a reason why they're not just considered to be another variety of beastman.

That's the biggest reason why I doubt we'll ever see a furry race in FFXIV. Just humans with variants of size, limb proportions, and animal bits.

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Lore-wise, the Sylph and Moogles are the only ones that really interact with the players prior to the "beast tribe" quests. There's nothing really preventing the devs from allowing these to be "player" races other than there being no gear for any of them. The Moogles have some gear for one specific primal. But we won't see players as any of the existing beast tribes mainly because it would break the lore already established.

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Originally Posted by Enthy

looks like SE just CAN'T deviate from the basic body shapes we already have have.... so I would like to see the next "beast-like" race to be based off something other than hyur..

Wolf/Bear race using Rogydens body frame

Bunny/Deer race using Lalafells body frame

Angel/Bird race using Elzaans body frame

I also REALLY hope all races will get a ton more customizing options! like at least 2 more face types for each race and beards/scars for all.

Also, Miqot'e really need more beast like options... scruffy tail/ears, face markings, fur patches etc.

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What would happen is nobody would play these. Even if we recycled the body shapes so that gear doesn't need to be redesigned, as I mentioned above, fur doesn't animate very well for player models in a MMORPG. Fur and Feathers require much more complex animations, or cheating and just making it the "skin texture" making it horribly ugly.

Another point that nobody mentioned yet, is that we end up with human-type faces because beast-type faces require a new full animation set for talking and emoting.

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Originally Posted by Rastaban

(Viera) cause of this
i dont think its an excuse for we couldnt get conterpart of male viera there are many many viera male sketch in internet and most of them looks great OFC, SE can handle this to create a male viera im sure its as easy as pie for them

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Based on what SE has done previously, they would have to create 4, two male, two female, with the differences between the two clans being minimal at best.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/04/...cept-revealed/

You know they did put stuff like this out for April Fools:
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000029.html
http://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/b...0140402_01.jpg


So I wouldn't put it past SE to take suggestions seriously.

The Japanese wanted "Races of mixed heritage (ex. Elezen-Hyur, Mi’qote-Lalafell, etc.) 26.8%" as the most popular option, where as everyone else wanted "Mammalian demi-beastmen (ex. a rabbit-eared race such as the Viera from FFXII, etc.) 24.9% 27.7% 26.1% 26.6% 31.0%" as their first option.

Furries "Mammalian beastmen (ex.) wolfmen, gnolls, etc.) 3.3% 7.3% 7.1% 6.2% 9.9%" were last place for everyone.

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Originally Posted by SinisterJointss

I would really dig a Ronso type race.

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amen. Kimahri was awesome.

Everyone who says they need to deviate from the humanoid look seem ridiculous. We have feet armor, how would that even work? For a snake like race the foot and leg armor just wrap around the scales or something? Then you'd have to get into race specific armor.

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Originally Posted by PoeRangutan

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Knowing the constraints that the races have to sort of conform to the armors we have already (no snake bodies, centaurs, etc) I think they mean they'd rather have more bestial races in the sense of like Argonians in Elder Scrolls

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...ex-d6l1m3f.jpg

Edit: NOPE. It was exactly what they meant. snake bodies, etc. In which case yeah... they wouldn't work.

I don't really like any of the human types we have, so always glamour behemoth head or pumpkin onto my lala :)

something non-human would get my vote (fine with something that has a human-shaped body but animal head...)

I would like a Flying Chocobo race... oh wait wrong meaning.... er... erm....
Ok I would like to have playable Moogles :P

I just want a race were the females look like actual grown ass women (highlanders, roes) instead of the teeny boppers we have too much of in this game (every thing else).