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

[Alacran]

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They even made kid versions.


As stated before, it by no means guarantees they will be placed in Erozea, just interesting to see how much work has already been put in to them. Also of note, funny how this is what the design team comes up with even if it's only for the year of the ram.

[Ryuko]

I would like a bird race. Any protruding feathers could be suppressed beneath head gear, and the 'beak' could be small enough to not need gear tweaking. Or... no beak, just a human face with feathers on the head/neck/arms/feet. But, hardware limitations and... well... SE has kind of dug themselves in a hole with their decision to create so many human-like races (even if they are this way due to hardware and production issues). If they release ONE very beastly race now, it will be the odd one out... and that will be just odd. For people mentioning WoW and other games' many races... there are plenty of beastly races from the start. We have an assortment of human-like races, so the standard has been set.

[Spy]

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.

idk I liked my Ferran.




But yeah there was a lot of hair clipping issues there.

[DreadRabbit]

This is just where you prove you can't make everyone happy. The absolutely gigantic "show your Au Ra" thread shows that several people do think the Au Ra as they currently are, are unique and different from other races enough to warrant a change or an alt. Or at least hours spent in the benchmark just to play with them.

The Au Ra gave us an interesting...hybrid. For the females you got the cute and energetic bits of Mid. Hyurs and Miqo'te, but the elegance of Elezen. The males got sort of the boy-ish charm Mid. Hyurs have, and a mix of Elezen and Roeg body build. The fact that they seem to take cues from just about every other race might be part of the reason why some people don't see them as distinct. Which is a legit opinion.

I have no idea what direction they would go for the next race. It probably should be more "fierce" along the lines of Highlanders and Roegs. It's not hard to make "fierce" look "pretty" or "cute" or "handsome".

[Solaria_Luna]

Only Ul'dah have a law that forbid beastmen to enter the city.


http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Mutamix%27s_Materia

I wish SE would have transfered the old newspaper articles from the old Lodestone to the new one before putting down the old.

I know this post is from yesterday, but I got placed in posting jail (hit post limit) before I could reply to this.

I didn't know that...I wish they did the same thing too, I wonder why they didn't.

If you want to see all of that post I quoted click on the box that looks like a fast forward button. [>>] <---- something like that

[TitaniaZero]

I wish I could find it. It was old and perhaps even on the ARR beta forums before the great Forum Purge. But a vote way back then tilted things this way with the cute-ish human-ish looks for the races. Mind you I can't find it. Heck so long ago I could even be remember it wrong. But if you don't get a fierce looking race you might want to look to the 1.0 peeps who gave yoshi the hint of what 'players' want. XD (man that was so long ago...)

[jomoru]

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.

No western players want the devs to make ugly an option and just never use it unless you're counting every race in Wow as ugly

[Samcaesar]

Only Ul'dah have a law that forbid beastmen to enter the city.


http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Mutamix%27s_Materia

I wish SE would have transfered the old newspaper articles from the old Lodestone to the new one before putting down the old.

The only issue I see with that is the currently dilemma with Au Ra and their origins. If they're dragonic in nature, then they'd never be allowed near Ishgard. If they're demonic, then they'd never be let near Gridania, as has plenty of reason to not like voidsent, primarily the Elementals knowing the dangers of voidsent.

Perhaps after some events occur in Ul'dah in relationship to those in power, then they'd allow some beastmen in. Alternatively maybe some weird retcon-ish rules, like "You're the exception, but we'll kick you out at any moment if we feel the need to". (Think Yuguri wanting to keep her mask on as to not make Eorzea unsettled while the PC in question is an Au Ra themselves)

[Mugiawara]

Viera's.

Wasn't Viera concept April Fools Joke?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Wasn't Viera concept April Fools Joke?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

You're thinking of the mock up of a bangaa/viera crossbreed.