Here is what the next playable Race should be...

[FutileMasquerade]

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Nah man, I was just joking. I played a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te when I first started. People can do what they want, I don't really care.

[Coratanni]

I want a chibi miqote. The only thing that would make me fantasia Whiskers ever.

[Rakiria]

Not my point. They're kids and somewhat resemble humans. Its like double standard bs. "Its ok because they're actually a hundred something years old" crap. They look like it so why is it ok? Yet if you look like a animal character from a childs cartoon your disgusting and should be ashamed. I suppose Sly Cooper, Monster Hunters Felines, Sonic (ign blows), the beast race from Phantasy Star and just about every character in Kingdom Hearts are just as horrible to like. I don't even.

Because the animal people are usually far more sexualised... Just look at lalas, they just look like chibis. Just cute and somewhat like kids. You see way more weird fetish animal character stuff... And about your Elin Lala question, one is made to look sexy and one is made to look cute.

[LineageRazor]

OP's concept looks way too cartoony, imo. One of the things I like about this game is that an effort is made for the characters, PCs and NPCs alike, to look like they could be real people, the animals could be real animals, etc, etc.

Additionally, I just don't see a point to it. We already have Moogles in the game - why do we need another type of Moogle? Just so that we can have Moogles that players can play as? Imo, if you're gonna make Moogles a playable race, they should be designed for that purpose from the ground up.

Padjal (Hyurs blessed by the forest/Elementals) will never be a playable race. Lore reasons.

While I, too, find it unlikely that Padjal will ever be a player race, there's nothing about the lore that makes it impossible. As has been noted in numerous other threads, if the devs decide they want a Padjal race, they can easily do so without breaking any established lore - and it all basically boils down to: "The elementals are mysterious, so just about anything the devs decide they can or can't do can be handwaved."

Panicky Elemental: Ocrap, the forest is in danger, what do we do???
Head Elemental: The answer is clear - flood the world with Padjal adventurers!
*The very next day, not just Hyur from specific families, not just Hyur in general, but individuals from all spoken races start growing horns! Padjal Rogadyn! Padjal Lalafell! Padjal Au Ra with EVEN MORE HORNS!!! Everywhere! Protecting the forest from all across Eorzea!*
E-Sumi-Yan: ...huh. I suddenly feel kind of redundant...

[Alberel]

Wow, I totally remember the original Morrowind mod that these pictures were taken from. Damn that brings back memories...

With regards to them being implemented as a race in FFXIV... I don't see it happening. Moogles already have an established look in Eorzea and the devs are very picky about ensuring everything fits within the lore and is explained in the story somewhere. I suppose they could explain them away as another Allagan experiment but it would be a very obvious shoehorn.

If I'm honest I actually don't think we'll see many more races added to the game. New races require that all prior and future equipment have an extra set of meshes for both genders and texture optimisation to fit those new meshes. Adding a new race would mean that all future armour sets would take more work to produce. There comes a point where it's just not feasible to do.

[Underdog2204]

Ronso or bust!

[AlphaFox]

I have to admit I wouldn't say no to either of the Humanoid Mogs (though if i had to vote, i'd go Ivalice) but do hope we get at least one bestial race. AuRa would have been perfect had they kept the original style.

[Remus]

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I don't know, when I see Lalafell all I see is a a person shaped like a potato. Kids don't really come to mind for me maybe i'm the weird one then.

[Galaktica]

Ronso or bust!

I'll second that!...but I'm also scared that if they introduced Ronso, the males would look like they do in FFX/X-2 while the women are just cutesy midlanders with a horn, a tail, and somehow little to no fur. I say that in jest, albeit very snidely, but I'm also being kinda serious. They can hardly get people to play Elezen or Roe so I'm not exactly getting my hopes up for something even remotely close to this or this.

[Sandpark]

Golem Race, made up with different plants and stones. Just to clarify. If golem became a race. This race wouldn't have skins like normal races. The variations in colors would be different stone or wood types for skin variations like the charts I linked below.









Or Monkey Race!