Please give us playable Lupin

Pretty much what the title say. Tbh, i want lupin because i have a thing for wolf-people, but any new race is welcome. Personally, having a lot of playable races is a big selling point for me.

For the sake of aesthetic variety, i can accept mask and accessories resembling other races. That would be also really cool, if they don't want to add new races.

Sorry for bad english, it's not my native language.

I'd actually really like if they stopped adding new races and added more customisation options for the existing races instead.

What is now known as Lupin was originally part of the concepts when they were brainstorming about what the Au Ra race would be for Heavensward.

https://i.redd.it/8k5tcpgo7zt91.jpg


Even the Viera was included as the possible Au Ra race.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/5b...b7de5af461.jpg

In ideal world we would have more supported races, but…

https://i.postimg.cc/WbYbF945/g9f7ygu6atl11.png

Sorry, just had to link that. ;)

They can’t fix the Viera/Hrothgar hat problem for years, and you want another race with the same issue?

There is a Lupin costume. It was originally a seasonal event reward for All Saint's Wake with the idea they looked so scary that it was worth dressing up as one.

It's now available on the mogstation as the Werewolf Set.

(There are lots of sets like this, particularly from beast tribes)

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

What is now known as Lupin was originally part of the concepts when they were brainstorming about what the Au Ra race would be for Heavensward.

https://i.redd.it/8k5tcpgo7zt91.jpg


Even the Viera was included as the possible Au Ra race.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/5b...b7de5af461.jpg

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I hope that they one day expand upon the Lupin race. Right now, they simply just... peacefully exist.

I thought of this recently only because I saw Clive, Jill, and Joshua cosplayers and my first thought was "If we had Lupin we could have the bestest boi, too"

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Originally Posted by BigCheez

I'd actually really like if they stopped adding new races and added more customisation options for the existing races instead.

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Deal, you get whole 2 hairstyles per year!

Yeah nah.

Not gonna happen.
The only reason they added male Viera and Femhroths is cause otherwise they would have had genderlocked races.

Apart from that you cna see how insanely lackluster the devs are with those 2 races.
No hats, even in 2025. More limited options in customization, especially dumb and weird with Hrothgars linking fur + Hair including highlights.
Rigging issues, releasing in beta-states and so on.

If SE and the devs gave a damn about the players those issued wouldve been long fixed and we may see a Lupin at some point being playable.
But how things are? Not gonna happen.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

What is now known as Lupin was originally part of the concepts when they were brainstorming about what the Au Ra race would be for Heavensward.

https://i.redd.it/8k5tcpgo7zt91.jpg


Even the Viera was included as the possible Au Ra race.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/5b...b7de5af461.jpg

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Shame they decided to go with anime girls and boys with funny scales in their faces instead.

Hopefully at some point, we'll collectively be able to see that we could have both. We should have both, and that we CAN have both. More customisation options, AND a new race, AND have all of them complete from the get go. We do not need to choose. All of this hat nonsense should've been fixed in 2019 when Shadowbringers released.

Do not forget that Dawntrail released 6 months late too. Not only it's entirely on them, AND they have to sort their stuff together. Not the other way around.

Same answer as the "Spanish dub".
They are so bankrupt, they have to probably sacrifice one or two features just to make Lupin. And they won't be able to wear hats either.
That makes 3 races now not being able to wear hats and the backlog piling up, because they intend on keeping that guy's / gal's / team's job that can't make hats.

They've been working on viera and hrothgar hats for 5 YEARS.

5 YEARS.

And you want them to add more races ?

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Originally Posted by Clockworks

They've been working on viera and hrothgar hats for 5 YEARS.

5 YEARS.

And you want them to add more races ?

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They really haven't. We all know it could be fixed in one single afternoon, if anything. So.. they had a lot of free time. They can definitely do both, if they actually worked on it in the first place, hm?

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Originally Posted by Doragan

Do not forget that Dawntrail released 6 months late too. Not only it's entirely on them, AND they have to sort their stuff together. Not the other way around.

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Where are you getting that Dawntrail was late? It went back to the normal June/July release window we had before COVID.

Isn't this a complete non-starter? Like SQEX have told us explicitly there will be no new playable races. They don't give us stuff promised to us, so stuff they ruled out seems impossible.

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Originally Posted by Doragan

They really haven't. We all know it could be fixed in one single afternoon, if anything. So.. they had a lot of free time. They can definitely do both, if they actually worked on it in the first place, hm?

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I'm just saying what SE is pretending to be doing. I know very well they arent working on it lol.

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

Isn't this a complete non-starter? Like SQEX have told us explicitly there will be no new playable races. They don't give us stuff promised to us, so stuff they ruled out seems impossible.

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They did rule it out, but since then they conceded they may be pressured to add more like they were with Male Viera and Female Hrothgar. They were implying that if the demand was high they may have to do it despite their reluctance.

But adding a lot more like Lupin while they can hardly manage hats and extra customization for Viera and Hrothgar doesn't seem worthwhile.

As I mentioned there is the Werewolf set.
https://onlinestore-img.finalfantasy...ub1_detail.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

Isn't this a complete non-starter? Like SQEX have told us explicitly there will be no new playable races. They don't give us stuff promised to us, so stuff they ruled out seems impossible.

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Unless anything new came out the last I heard of it was Yoshi-p talking about this at a fanfest and said those were to be the last races but seemed to imply if the community wanted more then it might be a possibility
Though part of me doubts that they would be willing to add more

Personally I'd want them to expand the current character creator more and give more customization options
Like the horn for all faces on Hrothgar, so they can look more like the Ronso they are inspired by
Slightly pointed ears for Hyur so they can be like Hilda
Maybe other variants to Au Ra since we see ones with different colored scales in Radz-at-Han
To name a few

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Originally Posted by LilaIronman

Deal, you get whole 2 hairstyles per year!

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And the best part? You won't get hats for 8 years.

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Originally Posted by RenegadeInferno

And the best part? You won't get hats for 8 years.

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8 years is putting it really nicely, if you get hats before FF21 you're lucky.

Honestly, please no. The actual races in game are already full of problems. At first they should polish what is already there. Fix old races problems and new races limitations. Why are Elezen necks still so broken? Why female Elezen still have shoulders like a bodybuilder? Why male slim light skinned midlander have no belly button or chest texture? The list is very long.

I will never understand, why male midlander Hyuran still have the worst options, the worst emotes, the worst body textures, the worst voices options, really bad race specific hair options and so on.

... they are all in all still a low quality race....

How can FFXIV posterboy WoL's race be a midlander and at the same time that race in game is so low quality?

Next is just my personal opinion. Before they add another monsterous race, they also should at first make it possible to play a handsome male elegant character, who is not tall. A type and bodytype like we see in almost every Japanese (or in general Asien) series.

Didn't they say no more new races at some point?

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Originally Posted by Lilapop

Didn't they say no more new races at some point?

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They did, but they didn't completely shut out the possibility if there would be really high demands for more.

Oh, it's time for this repost...

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Next race will be the Meteions

The only cosmetic option is Meteion. There's many Meteions running around. You can't wear any different gear, but you can dye yourself. It applies the dye to the whole body.
There's rumors of a Golden Meteion, but nobody has seen her yet. All Meteions have flight unlocked in all zones right away. All Meteions get access to the new exclusive housing district in Elpis.

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If they can figure out how to do it with their system I'd love to it and the original Au Ra. While not 'unlocking' like allied races in WoW as that would be a problem given our one character approach (unless they change it), I would think we could get a lot of cool second takes. Like Vivi / Mammet lala, Demon / Succubus Au Ra, Lupin, Highlands that found their eyebrows (and even more bulk!), Galka (tails on dem Roes), etc. Minimal animation work could make it faster. Again assuming they can figure out the other components. If it's a herculean amount of effort it sounds a bit scarier lol.


I'd also really like to see morph sliders, so you can add tangible bulk, skinny, thicc, etc. Make your Hroth stand up right or hunch. Like how you think of some Korean MMOs, but also Bethesda or other similar character creator menus. The hope with it being a morph being that the armor has minimal effort as it too morphs (and would 'usually' look okay).

Hrothgar were a mistake, we should have gotten rat girls instead, replace nyallo of miqos with cheesed to meet you of ratgirls

we already have the furry race and they are Hrothgar haha and most people who want to play one will use mods and moon to be one since the devs do nothing against those at all.

and I also agree before adding a new race they should fix the old one and allow Hrothgar and Viera to wear hats and also you know punish people using moon and mods instead

I wanna be a plant...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d3/ea/82/d...0b02d2115f.jpg

Very we will we get your Lupin in game as a playable race.

BUT NO HATS for 3 expansions!