Humanoid Avian Race?

[Roegadyn_Bear]

I wouldn't mind a humanoid avian race. Yes. Humanoid. Beautiful with feathers etc etc. I see people who are against that but how many of those people would honestly fantasia to an ugly beast race and stay as that permanently, or even the majority of their time in this game.

Yoshi's team knows people want to play beautiful characters and the Japanese especially prefer beautiful characters. On top of that, humanoid races make it a lot easier for them to modify gear to fit everything. Maybe I'm biased because I like pretty things XD I'm not entirely against more beast like figures, but the likelihood of that with this game is small I think.

You're not entirely wrong there. Unfortunately, a good majority of the players will gravitate towards prettier races.

Anyone that has ever played World of Warcraft before the Burning Crusade happened would remember how heavily underpopulated the Horde faction (which was considered the ugly faction due to no aesthetically pleasing races for most people) was. For all the talk and praise people threw upon the Troll race on that game, not many people actually played one due to issues with their appearances. The population imbalance was solved by shoving the prettiest race (by comparison to all the other races) into the Horde, which resulted in a population explosion that practically made the population imbalance cease to exist almost overnight (which in itself really says a lot).

I suspect, like in the aforementioned case, many people proposing for a new fierce, bestial race would authentically like seeing the race being added to the game... but they wouldn't play one themselves for long (if at all) after the honeymoon period ended.

Which is a damn shame, really.