New races in FF14

[Spawnie]

i dont care what race is next aslong as it isnt viera...

[Eolierz]

I would like more options too, however if we're stuck with only humanoids that look like humans cosplaying races that would make me sad.

Exactly what i was thinking! This game has a lot to offer the only thing thats lacking in a big way are the race options and the way you can customize them. Would like to see more effort done by SE on these things in future patches and expansions.

[Reinha]

The tauren pic is setting off my Avast. You sure the link isn't malicious?

EDIT. As far as I know about tech, images are links unless you download them to your pc and upload them directly to the forum you are posting on. It's possible your virus definitions are out of date or that you don't have proper web protection. Google can certainly come up with malicious results if you don't have anything to block them. Avast says it's blocking a malicious URL every time I open the first page of this thread and the URL is that of the tauren pic.

Anyone else having this problem or is it possible that Avast is being trigger happy?

[mirta000]

The tauren pic is setting off my Avast. You sure the link isn't malicious?

I was just searching for examples on google. Plus I don't think that an actual image can have a virus attached to it. Especially not if its copied directly from a google search :/

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Would much rather see more customization options for the existing races than new ones. I dunno, I've never been a huge fan of having a multitude of races in games. Maybe I'm just boring. :/

[Kotemon]

Burmecians (Freya ff9).

Next one Ronso (kimahri ff10)

Going back to FFXI, I'm almost certain the Mithra/Miquote were humanized off the Ronzo just as they kind of look like a blue feline morph of RedXIII. While the Qiqrin were essentially the Burmecian equivalent. They are only missing the long tail and 4th finger. Although they might actually have a short stubby hamster like tail given the look of their pants.

I cant help to notice that one looks like a sheep with that hair and horns and the lower two resembles a Dwarf and a Lunarian(??). I think they said Viera look to much like Miquote, but given the design the Wolf race. That would look too much like another Miquote if it was made to be more human looking. If they do use and keep the animal design they should at least make one look like a reference the one in that anime.

The main reason I understood for humanizing the concepts was mostly due to the armor molds. That'll take less work and data if everything could fit everyone and not have custom designs for multiple races. That may also be why there are not to many race only clothing styles in the game either. Otherwise I'd like to see playable race styles like Ronzo, Viera, Burmecians, even the wolf man or that dwarf looking one in the concepts. So far the closest thing to a less human looking race may as well be a remix of the Hummingway. As they can share Lalafell bodies and made to look like a cross between Moogles and Viera from tactics (and 12?) and less like a Lalafell.

[Yhisa]

Tbh i be happy with races from ivalice so it could be these

Nu Mou
Moogle
Viera

I just hope they dont make a werewolf... I would love to have a Nu Mou as a race but thats me

But to be honest i wish they make a new race entirely it adds suprise and excitement or fix up the current races and add more custome to them

Just stay away from Canine, feline, Rodents and make somethink awsome

[Defias]

I'd prefer they focus on the existing races, more diversity means less options overall.

I'd like for them to expand on current races. Add in more tribes, optional features like beards, scales, fur, etc.

Yoshida himself said he won't do Viera because they would be Miq'ote with bunny parts.
I say... (I always get torn a new one for this too...)
Why not expand Miq'ote to be more than ONLY cats. This would appease all the Viera requests, and open the gates for other human-animal races. Ronso could even be possible this way.

I once suggested that a tribe or option to put a Tail of Roegadyn (For the Galka lovers. They are rehashed Galka anyways...)

But nope. Folks want a copy and pasted race with slightly altered features. (Aura)
We don't add to/expand races.
We get the same thing but with a different coat of paint.

(Yes I'm bitter over being burned at the stake for suggesting something like this.)

[Cherie]

I think we actually *do* want more sophisticated races. We are probably running into hardware limitations though.

I mean, this game does run on ps3s still right? For recent patches, didn't they require ps3 and ps4(maybe it was just ps3) owners to upgrade their available hard drive space to a very large amount? Even if they could do a very different looking race, it would require accommodating a skeletal structure that wasn't humanlike for performing actions and wearing armor. Certainly it could be done, but it's going to take up even more of their limited space when most of the models use pretty much the exact template as it is. Even lalafells pretty much have the same structure for actions as I understand... That's how we got the Hildy dance, it was a lalafell dance that they ended up trying out on a hyur and it was freaking hilarious to see it performed on the larger less rotund model...

[KaijinRhada]

On topic: A new race is best paired with an expansion that makes sense to introduce a new race. Beastly races are great, but as said above, one model system for all makes for a more limited scope of racial design. Not saying there aren't other ways to make a race look beastly though.

As of now, I would rather they add more options to customize the current races.

Off-topic:

The tauren pic is setting off my Avast. You sure the link isn't malicious?

Avast has been going off for me as well. Red light came up for me when I saw the URL, given I have little to no trust in various WoW sites aside from BNet, MMO-C and WoWpedia.