[REQUEST] Can we have a more original race next time?

[Mugiawara]

Not going to happen. I want this too...because more diversity.
If it ain't super kawaii uguu desu, it's not coming here.
Just see for yourself in-game, every one and they grandmum's are friggin' cats.
Ya typical nekuu nekooo waaahh!!!
>__>;
Any other race that's not that tier, will only be waste of resources.
IIRC, recent interview showed that Yoshida DIDN'T make femra's succubus looking, but someone who you wanna protect.

I love the female Au Ra design, but the concept art was waaaay better.
It fit demons/succubus on them...these do not, and throwing the "Notta dragon! Demon motif"
just makes those scales look worse because they fit more dragon...I mean they didn't even give us fangs or tiny wings or anything
to scream demon.

[Ronzeru]

Yah. And miqote jus look like tiny humans with cat features. plz moor orginality like somethin out of mass effect sci fi creaturz plz!11

[Samcaesar]

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Hardly one to talk, Miss Lalafell :P

Demon motif motif for the Dragon_race is a little silly no? The Au Ra are meant to be ambigious currently. Dragons and demons (Not succubi, but they're weird ones) look pretty similar, heck the end boss of AK HM is apparently a dragon and I could've sworn it was voidsent til I looked it up.

I just wish the Au Ra at least looked different between the Xaela and Raen, maybe even suit both crowds with that.

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They do look like humans with cat features. People don't want the next race to be human with some animal features, or at least not "Midlander + other species traits", so they're asking "Hey SE, next race make 'em look more animal like". Like, not even like "I want kobolds to be playable!" Just something with more a more distinct animalistic face would work fine, Mithra compared to Miqo'te in this case.

[KisaiTenshi]

the problem is... races that don't look like a human are not popular.

No, the problem is that races that don't look human can't be done.

All the player models are based on the human biped. Anything that is not essentially a human biped can not be a player character. If you want a playable race with more than two legs (eg a centaur), no legs (eg a Mermaid or Lamia) or ?!? (eg Manticore) that would create so much work for the developers as every race requires an entirely new gear set from the existing gear, or making race-exclusive gear. As every developer will say, they don't like making "race-exclusive" gear because then they have to make race-exclusive gear for every race otherwise players complain.

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Archeage has another example of where the concept art was better than what actually wound up in the game, because I don't know, maybe the western players wanted something furrier, but it wound up not being cute at all.

If you want Japanese players to play it, it has to be cute. If you want Korean players to play it, it has to be sexy, and if you want Western players to play it, it has to be ugly.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

And if you thought the ear socks and tail clipping were a problem now...!

[Yuji-Ikaido]

I would have liked to see this race be entirely reptilian or something more along the lines of lizard people rather than humans with horns and a tail. Regardless, none of this matters to me as Lalafell are and always will be the supreme race superior to all.

[Nestama]

I'd rather they not waste resources on making something that hardly anyone plays, but that's just my opinion. Though, it would be interesting to have more diverse races; provided that they don't break the lore.

Then SE shouldn't make a new race at all from now on. They've succeeded in making a popular race (Miqo'te) so they no longer need to try any more. Leave new races to the beastmen and let us just deal with the fact this game has nothing unique to play as.

Unless you're a Miqo'te or Lalafell, you can already 'dress up' as a Viera. Just choose a hairstyle that hides your human ears and then equip the bunny ears. Voila, you are now a Viera (SE would never create Ivalice Viera, as they have unique feet).

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I sense you are quite extreme.

[Kikoten]

Hyur is humans with human characteristics.

Elezen: tall humans with pointy ears.

Miqo'te: humans with purrfect kitty-cat features.

Lalafell: Tyrion Lannister.

Roegadyn: Big humans with muscles.

[Khaoticsuccubus]

Then SE shouldn't make a new race at all from now on. They've succeeded in making a popular race (Miqo'te) so they no longer need to try any more. Leave new races to the beastmen and let us just deal with the fact this game has nothing unique to play as.

Unless you're a Miqo'te or Lalafell, you can already 'dress up' as a Viera. Just choose a hairstyle that hides your human ears and then equip the bunny ears. Voila, you are now a Viera (SE would never create Ivalice Viera, as they have unique feet).

And now It'll be split between Miqo'te lalafel and au'ra. ;P

They've already drawn some rather awesome concept art of ff14 Viera though unique feet and all. Whether they actually implement it with w/e expac comes after HW or not who knows. But never is a strong word given what we've seen/heard thus far.