New Race Announced! The Au Ra

[HumsterMKX]

Because Eorzeans are dragon hating racists. She'd probably be jumped by a dragoon if she showed her face.

I believe ppl will mistake her for some succubus spawn rather then a Dragon hybrid.

[Haprimac]

I'm bit disappointed with the females. Didn't Yugiri say stuff like she wasn't ready to show her face because how people might find it disturbing or something the like? From what I see, that's barely different from a padjal. I was hoping for something like this:



:S Would've been x100 cooler, imo.

[seida]

I'm bit disappointed with the females. Didn't Yugiri say stuff like she wasn't ready to show her face because how people might find it disturbing or something the like? From what I see, that's barely different from a padjal. I was hoping for something like this:


:S Would've been x100 cooler, imo.

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

[Korilynn]

Wait...does this mean my days of all Miqo'te dungeons will becoming to an end?

[Sylve]

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

Unless the face that was shown was one among many ...

Who is to say we wont also get more reptilian face styles, or different placements for the scale patches?
Until we see the full range of creation options, we wont be able to say for sure. Maybe Yugiri got a bit too much Dragon in her.

[Muzetta]

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

That's the thing though, it's a mere teaser with preset characters. We don't know what other face options etc. will look like. I'd say it's quite possible there will be a more fierce, if you will, option for the females that might have scales for example. We'll find out in 2.5 I'm sure. :P

[Parodine]

Yeah, the only way her face would've disturbed people was if she has very prominent horns. From her mask, maybe she does. But the females do look just a bit like midlanders with a tail.

[Sylve]

Yeah, the only way her face would've disturbed people was if she has very prominent horns. From her mask, maybe she does. But the females do look just a bit like midlanders with a tail.

Just rewatched the Au Ra video from this thread {http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/210223-For-those-who-missed-the-FF-vids}
if you look closely, the female Au Ra actually has scales on her neck and her forehead.
The horns also seem to be quite visible, even from the front.

[Chambers]

They don't have ears?

[Rowe]

SE has to design for the majority of players and potential players. They also have to take into consideration cultural preference/bias. Being a Japanese game the designers all have their cultural preference, everything in manga, anime and game character design coming out of Japan should have shown you how this was going to play out.

SE is looking to get FFXIV going in China and so when you take asian cultural views into consideration Chinese/Japanese/Korean the Au Ra pretty much fit what you would expect, more human looking than beast/dragon. Come on all you disappointed people Japan and South Korea consider themselves each to be homogeneous societies. What you see as a minor difference between the in-game races is actually huge to the designers.