Please add a new unique race to 14

[Zojha]

By not making said races to begin with. :>

They already did that, unfortunately. Can't undo it at this point.

[Kosmos992k]

Oh good grief, to add a beast race like a wolf hybrid would require so many changes to gear models, it's just not worth it for the rather small number of people who would (over the population as a whole) use such a race.

Quite apart from that, the sheer effort that would be required would be *far* better spent on improving existing things, expanding character customization, improving gear models and cloth physics, preventing clipping, the 18 quintillion QoL fixes that are requested each year, etc...Spending time on a race that would mandate a great deal of effort in specific areas simply to support a playable race that would be used by a very small minority is really an unsupportable waste of resources - IMHO.

[Mycow8me]

I'm of the opinion they could still make a playable void race and fit it in with the lore if they really wanted. There is already voidsent humanoids in the game that are enemies. Surely there could be a reason that not all of them are innately evil and are capable of thought process, emotions, or can feel the compassion from adventurers.

It is eventually revealed that the Void was originally one of the thirteen mirror worlds that were created when Zodiark was defeated in ancient times. On this world, the powers of light were defeated and it was completely consumed by darkness, transforming it into the Void.

Surely the humanoids from that world can be touched by the light again in eorzea? I dunno, just throwing out my two cents. It could work if they wanted it to.

[Ogulbuk]

Ronso!

[Mario-san]

I propose a Race Design Contest (FFXIV Community Edition)!

[Airget]

They have already said that they will never make a playable race without human legs/feet/hands, as it would mess up the current armours and they don't wanna rework every model ingame and future ones.
So I would asume that goes for the head aswell.

So sorry, no "true" beast race possible. Only thing we can hope for are more Humans with animal ears/tails.

If they are willing to take creative liberties they could.

By creative liberties I pretty much mean, unique beastial races with unique body forms compared to the current races could have a restriction to the visual designs of gear.

In the sense that say the 1-60 gear they only have 5-10 sets and a majority of the sets share with one another. It would allow them to add in said race with the trade off being their visual gear will have less variety compared to the other races.

[Kaethra]

Some people might not even want that. I don't.

Then simply don't buy a fantasia.

ESO does have more sliders BUT everyone still ends up looking the same unless you go for an extreme look because there is a basic template for each race.

That happens in most games with large customization. Some players just can't be bothered and just copy someone else's. I had very unique characters in ESO, enough to have others ask for sliders. Kept them to myself for that reason. Was even able to make a Dunmer still look great at stage 4 vampirism. That's a feat and a half.

[Ultimatecalibur]

ESO has far more customization to it for character creation than FFXIV AND they have several unique beast races. So its doable, it just depends on sitting a few modelers on it for a minute.

While character creation is much more complex in ESO. Gear on the other hand is much more bland and simple. ESO uses generic easily deformed "bucket" helmets to make creating gear easier with the Argonians and Khajit muzzles.

[Synrin]

That happens in most games with large customization. Some players just can't be bothered and just copy someone else's. I had very unique characters in ESO, enough to have others ask for sliders. Kept them to myself for that reason. Was even able to make a Dunmer still look great at stage 4 vampirism. That's a feat and a half.

I do wish we could make our characters as dark in FF.

While character creation is much more complex in ESO. Gear on the other hand is much more bland and simple. ESO uses generic easily deformed "bucket" helmets to make creating gear easier with the Argonians and Khajit muzzles.

Well that's only helmets. Times like 20 styles, not that much to work on, is it?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Well that's only helmets. Times like 20 styles, not that much to work on, is it?

Whereas FFXIV went with a crazy wide variety of gear. There are 1086 headpieces currently and most models are used far less that 7 times. Even with every model being shared 7 times (which isn't happening) you have 155 models that would need to be adjusted for races with muzzles.