What NEW races would you like to see?

[RedHare]

The idea of new playable races in a game like FFXIV confuses me.
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Again, I'm all for seeing player qiqirn or totally new races from some yet-unseen continent and not from any past FF game either. I'm just curious how people (or the developers) think this would all work out, because I don't see it very well.

Judging from how Square handled XI-- "Deal with it" is their genuine developer point of view. =) Crazy part: I honestly don't know anyone that actually regretted rerolling in XI. But I can't speak for everyone so, /shrug. But it's not like Square would force anyone to start over. (Although that'd be great if it became p2p)

The way I see it Tsukino is that some people would be willing to reroll, and others wouldn't. Well, let that would be the magic in the new genders or races then. They'll have something to prove.

Additional races later on, though, don't make much sense to me. It takes a lot to motion capture new animations and retool existing equipment models to work on new races, and yet at that point it may not add much to the game in exchange. Very few people will be starting new or starting over and be able to select them.

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.

Only sub-race, same-gender share the same mo-cap, animations, and model tools as their counterparts. (aside from Highlanders>Midlander, which presently lack the female gender). Which I think is a failure due to deadlines. So they could add new, completely unique races to the game, or differentiate the present subclasses so that they don't look like simple recolors of their counterpart. I think that is why Yoshi-P is willing to let us run our imaginations wild. I think that is what presently bothers the dev. team. But anyway, clearly I'm letting my imagination run wild. o_O