What NEW races would you like to see?

[Raze]

I want whatever race Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is.

[Velhart]

Dwarves

Have one of their emotes be them jumping up in the air and scream "Lali-ho!"

[SirEdeonX]

Hummm.. new races....

I'd love for Padjal to be playable, but I'd really like to have a race like Zidane from FFIX (Genomes).

Which is a teen hyur with a monkey tail I know its close to male miqotes... but the point is - no ears.

And I wanna play a moogle! All kinds of moogles with all kinds of pink clothes and hats! (I can accept a mog house with a moogle that we can dress up too)

[Amsai]

Lastly I would like to point out playing as a beast-tribe (goblin, ixal etc) would make no sense in the lore of the game. Furthermore, imagine an ixal in the gear we have, like an iron helmet. It would look totally stupid and be way too much work to alter every piece of gear to fit such a radically different shape.

Firstly, way too rain on my Goblin Parade! Secondly, care to elaborate about Qiqirn and Goblins not making sense from a lore aspect? To say nothing of the fact you even stated the lore isnt fully fleshed out for existing races as is? I mean, I kind of see what you mean with other beast tribes, but I see nothing that would prohibit Goblins and Qiqirn from being playable races. If anything they are more like nuetral races, more like mercenary point of view, but hell what do you call us adventurers that do stuf for fun and profit? Idealogically speaking I dont see too big a difference. Furthermore, if you have ever played FFXI, you'd know that sometimes there were some rare good Beastmen from what would normally be considered an evil race (i.e the Yagudo beastman named Gessho from ToAU). From this perspective, there is no good reason to keep the lore that rigid..... Why would you even want to? Besides, who doesnt like an underdog?

Im seriously not sure that with all the motion capture and concept design, creation, etc etc, and still having to make armor fit a new race, that it would be any easier than making new armor but using races that already exist in the game (Goblins etc.) I for one would be ok with limited armor options (maybe Beastmen specific), if it came to it. I wouldnt want an Iron Helm either, as I'd be sporting my Goblin Gas Mask full time!!!

If you just plain dont like the idea of Beastmen races being playable characters, then thats your opinion and you are entitled to it. However, don't make up flimsy excuses like the "lore doesnt fit", because youd rather they add Ivalice races. I personally hate the idea of them adding Ivalice races, but I cant see any good in-game reason for them not to be added. I definately wouldn't /ragequit if they did add them over beast tribes though. I'd be happy they at least added more racial options for more variety.

Again, if you want to bing up valid technical reasons why they cant be implemented, or would just rather have other races then that is fine. But there is no good in-game reason not to have playable beast tribe characters. The lore shouldnt be so restictive that it kills fun, not that there is enough lore for it even to be that big of an issue.....

/em Chants!
GOBLINS! GOBLINS! GOBLINS! GOBLINS! GOBLINS!.....

[Zaireeka2025]

Hummm.. new races....

I'd love for Padjal to be playable, but I'd really like to have a race like Zidane from FFIX (Genomes).

Which is a teen hyur with a monkey tail I know its close to male miqotes... but the point is - no ears.

And I wanna play a moogle! All kinds of moogles with all kinds of pink clothes and hats! (I can accept a mog house with a moogle that we can dress up too)

Check my sig dawwwg!

[Sylvari]

As much as i like the ideas that have floated by so far... I would love to see the FFXIV team do some concept art for the races ppl have been talking about and do a poll on them.. Although in the event that they did... i could see Viera getting a 80% popularity

[Tsukino]

Well just try to google translate this.. ^_^ But looks the it will be consider to change for free at the ps3 release.. also a barber shop.. looks like they do listen ^_^

I'll help.

Hello everyone.

I confirmed things related to changing appearances and races with Producer Yoshida.

• Hairstyle / hair color changes
  We are discussing the implementation of a barber shop later on in the game, the plan for which would be to allow people to freely make changes using it.
  
  
• Race changes
  We are discussing being able to change your race one time only, coinciding with the implementation of new races for the PS3 launch.
  Consideration of a service that would allow for further race changing would be dependent on how much everyone requests it.
  
  
• World transfer
  We have not talked about specifics such as for the PS3 launch or in other cases, but we are of course considering it.

Since Yoshida also said that a race change service would depend on player demand for one, we look forward to your feedback as always!

I personally would not be in favor of an anytime race change service, unless it were accompanied by time restrictions and cost real money. It's one thing to change your character's hair; race is something you're born with and shouldn't just be something some NPC can adjust.



As for the actual topic of this thread, I would greatly prefer the developers added something new just for Eorzea instead of everyone's stupid viera suggestions. Qiqirn is a good one, as well as bringing in FF-style dwarves (think IV and IX here) since they're nothing like typical fantasy dwarves. Or just something completely new would be nice, like when XI started galka and tarutaru were pretty damned unique. I'd like to see something as new and unique for XIV rather than something that belongs to another game world.

[Ark_mage2]

As much as I would want new races down the line. I really don't think they should be from Ivalice. The Ivalice races are special, and really belong to a different world, both literally and thematically, from Eorzea. I have complete faith in Akihiko Yoshida to come up with amazing and loveable new races for this game when the time comes. I would prefer that much more.

[Azunia]

Bangaa and Moogles as playable race Please? Moogles preferably because they were so cute in FF12.

[akisato]

I love moogles as much as the next guy but they're already in the game so they can't be a playable race.