What NEW races would you like to see?

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Originally Posted by RedHare

It takes just as much mo-cap, new animations, retooling models and work for new genders as races. (Albeit perhaps twice. IF the new race would have both male and female). Female Roegadyns will need their own mo-cap, pretooling resources, sound, animation, and et cetera. They're not going to use male Roegadyn resources lol. Same for the Male Mi'qotes. I think the point the devs mean to drive at us is creating new genders is just as difficult as creating new races. They require the same amount of unique and individual resources. So if we're going to do one, why not do both? That is their thinking, maybe. And perhaps are leaving that open for future projects.

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Actually I'm already aware of that, I just didn't make it very clear. What I meant by the end of that sentence, "...and yet at that point it may not add much to the game in exchange," was that doing work like motion capture and modeling for the two new sexes isn't for just the few of us that are playing now, but the multitudes more they hope to pick up upon "re-launch" for the PS3. Doing that same work for new races later on doesn't seem like it would have as much benefit as there won't ever be another time they have the potential to greatly increase their number of players and thus have enough people use the new ones.

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Originally Posted by Raagnar

Let's keep it real people... you will never be able to play a beastman (bangaa included) in ff as a main character. How about Padjal? they are already in game.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=226845

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Padjal actually have more of a problem being implemented than beastmen or any "new" race would, from a lore standpoint. There are only supposed to be a very small number of them (<5 IIRC) because they are "chosen" by the Twelveswood/elementals outside of Gridania. They're not a truly separate race of people that produce offspring; they're regular people that get chosen, grow horns, and stop aging.

Ah I see. Sorry for pointing out the pointless part. >.< I get waaay off topic. But I don't think the PS3 release will be the sole hail mary. Even after that release, they're not off the hook for delivering quality content. (hopefully they'll have air conditioning again) :(

New races (not just races from other games but fresh new ones), along with races from other games (Viera, Mogs) would go a long way to build some much needed hype for the game and breath some new life into it. Would also be nice to allow people to race change for a fee - for those of us that didn't have that option available to us.

Although there is no use talking about that sort of thing at the moment since it's not something that will occur in the near future. We're talking beyond 1.23-1.24 (if they continue that naming scheme). This is currently nothing more than hype for something almost a year down the road... kinda like talks of Chocobos last September.

- Kurokikaze

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Originally Posted by RedHare

Ah I see. Sorry for pointing out the pointless part. >.< I get waaay off topic. But I don't think the PS3 release will be the sole hail mary. Even after that release, they're not off the hook for delivering quality content. (hopefully they'll have air conditioning again) :(

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PS3 release will determine if this game has a future. That is not an opinion but an undeniable fact.

If they can attract a decent audience and keep them entertained for about 3-6 months with fast patches and lots of content - then they will have won them over.

If they fail to do this. This game will probably go F2P and possibly turn to shit due to lack of funding.

- Kurokikaze

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These please.

Seriously, I'd like to see a Wolf Race, Either Quadraped like Nanaki/Red XIII, or Bi-ped like modern Werewolves.

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Originally Posted by sammy

VIERA!!!!! pls^^ lol
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For an expansion id be game..

Hmm... Random thought of the day, more use of out companions as part of the core game not just story..

Seeing as Viera is the most popular suggestion. Maybe we should examine the changes that would be made to it to implement it into XIV.

First would be name. I really doubt it'll keep the name Viera.
Second would be proportions. I doubt they are going to be eight feet tall (including ears) They'll probably end up just being a respect of the Elezen body with different heads and tails on the spine, then special hands and feet. Which will put them as about 6'9 (including ears) to 7'5 (including ears)

Well just try to google translate this.. ^_^ But looks the it will be consider to change for free at the ps3 release.. also a barber shop.. looks like they do listen ^_^

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Originally Posted by Triairy

皆さん、こんばんは。

容姿や種族変更の可能性についてプロデューサーの吉田と確認してきました。

• 髪型・髪色の変更
  今後ゲーム内に床屋を実装することを検討しており、床屋を利用することで自由に変更が可能になる予定です。
• 種族変更
  PS3ローンチにあわせた新種族実装にあわせ、1度だけ種族を変えることができるよう検討をしています。
  また種族を変更するサービスについては皆さんの声の大きさ次第では検討しますとのことです。
• ワールド移転
  PS3ローンチ時になるか、それ以降になるか現段階では何とも言えませんが、もちろん検討していきますとのことです。

種族変更のサービスについて声の大きさ次第で検討と吉田も言っていましたので、
今後もご意見ご要望お待ちしています！

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Everyone, good evening.

Yoshida and producer has confirmed the possibility of changing appearance or race.

Hair Color Changing Hairstyle
Is considering a barber in the game to implement future changes will be made freely available to use the barber shop.

Race Changes
Implementation tailored to fit the PS3 launch new species tribe has been considering a race that can be changed only once.
For services to change depending on the size of the tribe also is the voice of you and consider that.

World Transfer
When you become a launch PS3, at this stage but I would hardly 何Tomo later, and will consider is, of course.



Yoshida also said it would consider depending on the size of the voice of change for tribal services,
Feedback We look forward to the future!

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The great race consensus:

More Mi'qotes, but with bunny ears.

My reaction.

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Originally Posted by RedHare

The great race consensus:

More Mi'qotes, but with bunny ears.

My reaction.

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Even as a Mithra - agreed -_-

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

Pretty much. Take a Miqo'te, pull the ears longer, watch the tail get shorter, poof pretty much a Viera at that point.

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Miqote are too short
They'd use the elezen model.

Something new that I have not seen before.

Like bears. Bear people.

But really, something that has not been used 17392921743921748971984789 other times in other FF/mmo games.

Bird people! >.> Yes, with beaks, feathers sprouting from the tail area and from the elbows. the beak would be the nose, they can still have human-features and everything. They can be as tall as a miqo'te or shorter, but taller than a Lalafell.

edit: I'll have to draw one up someday D:

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Originally Posted by Rhianu

[SIZE=5]I vote for playable moogles! Who's with me?

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Yes! And make it lore-friendly!! Perhaps moogles have the ability to use forest magick to morph into battle mode (standing as tall as lalas and would explain the useless leftover wings) to join the fight against the Garlean invasion. PLEASE SE!! I will donate my left @$& to the cause!! MOOGLE WITH A BATTLE AXE!!!

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Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

Yes! And make it lore-friendly!! Perhaps moogles have the ability to use forest magick to morph into battle mode (standing as tall as lalas and would explain the useless leftover wings) to join the fight against the Garlean invasion. PLEASE SE!! I will donate my left @$& to the cause!! MOOGLE WITH A BATTLE AXE!!!

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For Lorewise, they could easily do something like.


Moogles were born of the forest.

Garleans intrigued by their magic abilities captured them and performed experiments on them, cross breeding them to create a new race they simply call Mogs.

Mogs have highly Technological Ability but also have Geomancy powers that they can share with people.

Result?> Storyline Introduction of Moogle Based Race (Based off of the FFT appearance) Engineering(Crafting) and Archanist(Class)/Geomancer(Job) character choices.

Why does my brain spew so much awesome?

What about a race like the monkey kid of FF9 :D.

Planet of the apes online lol :D

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Originally Posted by Kailok

They could be like a sister race, kind of like how the Highland Hyur and Midland Hyur are related

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This could also work for getting Akihiko Yoshida's FFXII moogles to fit into the lore as a playable race ;) MAKE IT HAPPEN SE!!

I like the Ivalice races and all, but I feel they should stay in Ivalice. Part of what makes these universes so special is the fact that they are self contained. I feel having variations on the Vana'diel races is different from pulling the races from an entirely separate game world as XIV seems to be prepared to eventually replace XI, rendering the old races unused so people will still be able to play as what feel familiar to them (Minus my tail, you butchers). The Ivalice games can be played by anyone at any time and all the lore of the universe is contained within the Ivalice games.

I say, if we add new races, make them new. Make them unique to Eorzea.

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

Pretty much. Take a Miqo'te, pull the ears longer, watch the tail get shorter, poof pretty much a Viera at that point.

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Take a hyur, pull the ears longer, watch them get skinnier, poof, pretty much an Elezen at that point. Even height isn't an issue, as my Elezen female is shorter than most highlander hyurs. Seems to me the it-looks-the-same argument can be applied to most of the races as they are all distinctly humanoid.

So I'll cast my vote for Viera too. If nothing else, it might thin the Miqo herd a little.

I also think it'd be neat if some of the beastmen races were playable, but at the same time I wonder if it'd take away some of the charm if there were dozens of moogles, sylphs and qiqirn running around. Goblins on the other hand... since they're already integrated into the cities, I could see them being an interesting choice. Haha. Especially if the player had to keep to the laws of gobbie names.

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

Oh I mentioned something like this pages back in this same topic. Current races are way too similar off one common base (the human model). Just saying if we're getting new races along the line, why should we continue making them as similar to each other as we already have been doing?

Of course this can get hard with gear models and such.

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Making the gear models would be easier if they did stick to the Human-model base.

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For Lorewise, they could easily do something like.


Moogles were born of the forest.

Garleans intrigued by their magic abilities captured them and performed experiments on them, cross breeding them to create a new race they simply call Mogs.

Mogs have highly Technological Ability but also have Geomancy powers that they can share with people.

Result?> Storyline Introduction of Moogle Based Race (Based off of the FFT appearance) Engineering(Crafting) and Archanist(Class)/Geomancer(Job) character choices.

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Well SE has already increased the size of monsters without any lore. So in my opinion SE should just change the animation for the moogles I mean we only see them once how hard can it be. In addition while they are rare in the lore maybe in the future we will find there city-state and they will join our ranks. There is a ton of ways that SE can add moogles as a playable race.

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Well SE has already increased the size of monsters without any lore. So in my opinion SE should just change the animation for the moogles I mean we only see them once how hard can it be. In addition while they are rare in the lore maybe in the future we will find there city-state and they will join our ranks. There is a ton of ways that SE can add moogles as a playable race.

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Actually they did explain the size changes with lore. :P

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Well SE has already increased the size of monsters without any lore. So in my opinion SE should just change the animation for the moogles I mean we only see them once how hard can it be. In addition while they are rare in the lore maybe in the future we will find there city-state and they will join our ranks. There is a ton of ways that SE can add moogles as a playable race.

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moogles or Mogs have been a final fantasy icon since the first three and have been remapped, reshaped, and reintroduced in almost every final fantasy.. they show one in this game which makes me hopeful for a playable mog avatar =)

So many great options...I think the should add all the races they plan to add to ps3 launch if we can only have a one time switch.

But the one they show in this game is like a little bowling ball you can't play with that as a playable race lol.

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

But the one they show in this game is like a little bowling ball you can't play with that as a playable race lol.

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thats why my suggestion included genetic engineering. They could be engineered and lets say, Cross bred with Lalafell the resulting new race of Mogs could look like the Moogles from FFXII/T/TA

Kokoroon will be nice too...

Give only the Seekers of the Moons Bunny Ears, make them taller and more regal (like the Elezen).

Make only the Hellsguard completley covered in fur, thinner, with more robust like the Elvaans of Vana'diel.

Make only the Plainsfolk some kind of furry and give them bat/rabbit/mouse features.

There's your Viera, Ronso, and Moogle. Instead of being their own race, they could be one of the two sub-races for Roegadyn, Mi'qote, and Lalafel respectfully.

All those revisions would need their own animations, model retools, and so on. It'd be a lot more work than one new race, I know. But if Square is implying they're re-examining current playable races, let that be the focus. I just don't see why Highlanders can get their own model retools and the rest of the sub-races can't.

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

For Lorewise, they could easily do something like.


Moogles were born of the forest.

Garleans intrigued by their magic abilities captured them and performed experiments on them, cross breeding them to create a new race they simply call Mogs.

Mogs have highly Technological Ability but also have Geomancy powers that they can share with people.

Result?> Storyline Introduction of Moogle Based Race (Based off of the FFT appearance) Engineering(Crafting) and Archanist(Class)/Geomancer(Job) character choices.

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Perfect. I love you. This settles both moogle lore and sub-race issues. +1000 for hi-tech lore and class implementation. This game needs more FF6-inspired tech. Mog race FTW. I'm seriously feelin' a Mog race petition thread coming here... Who's with me?!

YoshiP, CopyPasta this and I will love you too.

the 1st game i played with the viera race was in ff-12 and thye lived in the forest surrounded by mist... on the big map east of grid the have a town icon on the map even far west under the dragon flying you have a town icon.. thye could easily work in the viera race in 1 of those two places.nvm the town far east is the highlander town where most of highlanders died. do they even give info on the town to the far west though..

kind of off topic but maybe the whole "empires" land will have different races since we are not shown their homeland, maybe new beastly mobs to kill, new battle classes from there and maybe some very nice raids like sneek into the main city for something intense. Either way i say bring the fight to the empire and stop playing chicken ppl of eorzea

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

thats why my suggestion included genetic engineering. They could be engineered and lets say, Cross bred with Lalafell the resulting new race of Mogs could look like the Moogles from FFXII/T/TA

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...and Cairdeas strikes again! Keep those ideas comin' bro!

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Originally Posted by Birry

...maybe the whole "empires" land will have different races since we are not shown their homeland, maybe new beastly mobs to kill, new battle classes from there and maybe some very nice raids like sneek into the main city for something intense. Either way i say bring the fight to the empire and stop playing chicken ppl of eorzea

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Annnnnd, this would be where they'd come out from the woodwork. I'm about to fly to Japan and personally pitch this to YoshiP himself! Yoshi!! Don't make me fly over to where you sleep (most likely the office)!!

you keep stroking my ego and I'mm have issues XD

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

you keep stroking my ego and I'mm have issues XD

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Then this should cause a perturbing climax.

What is up with all the weaboo lookin' ponies in people's signatures. I miss a meme or something?

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Originally Posted by EmeraldHill

What is up with all the weaboo lookin' ponies in people's signatures. I miss a meme or something?

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You will find your answer here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcul...dship-is-magic

BURMECIAN FROM FFIX!!!!!

Freya was such an awesome lancer and character all around. The character concept was unique and awesome.
http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy...ns_Concept.jpg

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs26/f/20...t_by_Ajehy.jpg

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

I just remembered this. Who else remembers this from the April Fool's joke on Alla a while back?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/...e573c6388c.jpg

Maybe not looking like an April Fool's joke so much now, is it?

Here, found the whole topic: http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=12898

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Ya I remember this too, damn Zam...

Comment/Sign/Bump/Like/Flame the Petition for adding Mog Race!!! thread and it could be a reality XD

I think Bangaa/a lizard like race could be a good candidate for emerging from the southern wastes ;v
That or maybe a lizard race coming from some type of Marsh area, kind of like Argonians.

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Originally Posted by RedHare

Not to mention 60% of Hyurs already look like Bieber.

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60% boyish, 40% manly, I don't see how thats too unbalanced considering this is in fact a japanese mmo.