Quote Originally Posted by odie View Post
This is why I feel the Au Ra shouldn't even have been made playable yet. If they don't fit in at any of the city states, and they are just recently coming from their home continent, then I feel that allowing the players to have them and filling the game with PC AuRa was very premature. I haven't really gotten into the DRK quests yet. Hopefully the next race will not be introduced so suddenly. I tend to count the PC population as part of the world population like NPCs...I mean, we see them right? So instead of welcoming them into this world I share with them, it has caused me to see them as more of a pest. Othard would have been a much better time to make the AuRa playable.
I think the Au Ra were somewhat relevant to the situation in Ishgard, and they wanted to introduce them as being connected to the Ninja too, so I can see why they introduced them when they did. I agree that it's a little weird to see so many Au Ra suddenly appear, but I guess if you count them like NPCs, you can say that the sudden influx does match the story of a ton of refugees showing up pretty much over night. The PCs just have to fill the places of the NPCs for now.

Personally, I just think it was time for a new race. Variety is the spice of life! It sounds like you don't like Miqo'te much either, so I'm surprised you would not welcome a race that would decrease the number of Miqo'te. XDD