What if the reason why there isn't a new race is because...

[Malzian]

Hmmm... Au'ra and Lalafel hybrid... The only sure way to make a potato look more menacing is to give it scales and horns. >.>

[Enur]

Maybe say that in the first place then. :P



People didn't buy CE for a Fantasia. If you want to argue that the base game should have included one: cool, I have nothing against that argument. But there was a version of the game that came with one, which is what I was pointing out vs no Fantasia whatsoever.

Thats indeed my argument. If the devs are going to use significant development time on a new race, at least let me access it for free once with the purchase of a standard expantion pack.

[Kit-Kat]

Hybrid race options don't really make sense lore wise. Hybrids aren't impossible obviously (although some combinations probably are) but they are extremely rare, rare to the point that we've only met one after traveling all over Eorzea.
A thousand hybrids suddenly appearing in Limsa would be silly.

Don't we see thousands of warriors of light already? :^)

[Remus]

Don't we see thousands of warriors of light already? :^)

I don't know about you but in my game I am the WoL and you are bunch of scrub adventurers :^)

[MilesSaintboroguh]

What if we are getting a secret new race and the new person representing the race is hidden behind a mask like Yuguri was? What if Unukalhai is of a new race?

If that were true, we would have had this "secret" character many patches ago. Unukalhai actually does remove his mask at the end of the Warring Triad storyline.

He's just a young Hyur child from the Void. Nothing special.

I don't know about you but in my game I am the WoL and you are bunch of scrub adventurers :^)

Then why do you keep recruiting us for raids and primals?

[Theodric]

'Hybrid' races are exceptionally rare in this setting. It wouldn't make sense for their to suddenly be a huge influx of half-elves or the like.

Instead the focus should be upon expanding the customisation options for the existing batch of playable races. Any 'new' races are likely to just be slight tweaks of what we have already. We're unlikely to get anything that isn't just a Hyur with slightly exotic features. At least if the existing options are expanded we'll end up seeing more popularity for the more neglected playable race/gender combinations.

[Magic-Mal]

'Hybrid' races are exceptionally rare in this setting. It wouldn't make sense for their to suddenly be a huge influx of half-elves or the like.

Instead the focus should be upon expanding the customisation options for the existing batch of playable races. Any 'new' races are likely to just be slight tweaks of what we have already. We're unlikely to get anything that isn't just a Hyur with slightly exotic features. At least if the existing options are expanded we'll end up seeing more popularity for the more neglected playable race/gender combinations.

2.0:
-Sudden influx a Miqo'te men
-Sudden influx of Highlander women
-Sudden influx of Roegadyn wom-...oh nvm that

3.0:
-Sudden infestation of Au Ra, a race never known to exist.

[Dualblade]

What if we are getting a secret new race and the new person representing the race is hidden behind a mask like Yuguri was? What if Unukalhai is of a new race?

Trust me, if Unukalhai was going to be used to show off a new race we'd already have threads about it day 1 of 3.5.

Hmmm... Au'ra and Lalafel hybrid... The only sure way to make a potato look more menacing is to give it scales and horns. >.>

Such an evolution would probably help them move past the "emergency food" stage of life.

[Theodric]

2.0:
-Sudden influx a Miqo'te men
-Sudden influx of Highlander women
-Sudden influx of Roegadyn wom-...oh nvm that

3.0:
-Sudden infestation of Au Ra, a race never known to exist.

The developers simply realised what a terrible concept gender locked races were. Furthermore all of the original races were already well established within the setting. Au Ra weren't but at least they came from Othard - somewhere we haven't seen in-game yet. With that said, though, they ended up being less 'bestial' and more like the other existing races. Which led to many people finding them to be rather lacklustre.

That doesn't really change the simple fact that half-elves have already been established as rare and heavily shunned. Elezen exist, Hyur exist - just expand the options available for both races instead of wasting development time on what will essentially just be a Midlander model with Elezen ears stuck onto it.

Thankfully this setting takes itself seriously enough that dumb combinations like Roegadyn/Lalafell hybrids won't likely ever be a thing either.

Maybe in 5.0 we'll get a new race. Who knows? It's not a priority when the existing races are in dire need of additional customisation options and representation.

[Lauront]

2.0:
-Sudden influx a Miqo'te men
-Sudden influx of Highlander women
-Sudden influx of Roegadyn wom-...oh nvm that

3.0:
-Sudden infestation of Au Ra, a race never known to exist.

None of which are incredibly rare, unlike half breeds, and in particular half-elves.

In summary: spurious argument is spurious.

I would be seriously annoyed if they eschewed a new race idea for some silly half-breed. That said, I'd welcome new customisation options for existing races.