Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Endeleon]

You've played FFIX and the Ivalice games, right?

Oh I have. It's just the designs in Ivalice and Tacticts, etc... aren't Furries. They are beastmen. This design is a Furry.

[ExKage]

Oh I have. It's just the designs in Ivalice and Tacticts, etc... aren't Furries. They are beastmen. This design is a Furry.

What.

How is Beastmen v Furries.. I what?? What, Ronso don't count either?

The Lupin were sorta part of the Beastly Au Ra concepts.


I wish they had kept going for it but they said 'players like hyur and cutesy types'

[Nestama]

Oh I have. It's just the designs in Ivalice and Tacticts, etc... aren't Furries. They are beastmen. This design is a Furry.

Burmecian, Wolfman (FFV), Ronso, whatever Baku is (FFIX), hippomen (FFIX again), rhinomen (FFIX... again), bird people (various kinds, also FFIX again). FFIX in general was pretty diverse with their races.

Please no. We absolutely do not need truly animalistic playable races. It would really change the game, and make a total mockery of the existing game lore.

That being the Royal We? (Senn, if you're reading this, I did take that to heart and now try to only post in "I's")
Also, in what way? Did the Lupin bother you that much in Stormblood?

A relatively normal human body with a completely animalistic head is just plain wrong, it doesn't make sense logically, physically or from a story or lore point of view.

Good thing we're playing a Fantasy game.

[Fredco191]

Who honestly wants Robots as a new race now?

[Kosmos992k]

Burmecian, Wolfman (FFV), Ronso, whatever Baku is (FFIX), hippomen (FFIX again), rhinomen (FFIX... again), bird people (various kinds, also FFIX again). FFIX in general was pretty diverse with their races.



That being the Royal We? (Senn, if you're reading this, I did take that to heart and now try to only post in "I's")
Also, in what way? Did the Lupin bother you that much in Stormblood?



Good thing we're playing a Fantasy game.

Fantasy or not, games follow their own internal logic. Looking at existing playable races and the various beast tribes it's quite easy to see why it doesn't make sense. Use the excuse that it's a fantasy game ignores the importance of internal logic and consistency.

[ExKage]

Fantasy or not, games follow their own internal logic. Looking at existing playable races and the various beast tribes it's quite easy to see why it doesn't make sense. Use the excuse that it's a fantasy game ignores the importance of internal logic and consistency.

You can't use it as a lore reason when SE was clearly thinking about it until they decided that the playerbase just prefers 'hyurs' (aka Roes are the least played so obviously beastly types are not desired)....

Nevermind the fact that maybe Roes aren't the beastly look people want. They decided to make Au Ra Concept still a realization. Maybe not an actual player race but maybe they can in the future. But that 'lore' excuse is not one that really makes sense when they even -considered- it.

[Berret_Snowbear]

Nevermind the fact that maybe Roes aren't the beastly look people want. .

Roes are hardly beastly at all, they are just muscled Hyurs but the only bearable race in this game for me tbh. Maybe if they were still Galka they would be different enough since Galka are Ursine in nature. But this is a JRPG people don't want to play beastly, they want waifu races.

[Clethoria]

Good thing we're playing a Fantasy game.

Fantasy =/= ignoring all logic. Every universe has its rules, and for all intents and purposes, they're too beasty to be acceptable just cause.

[Nestama]

Fantasy =/= ignoring all logic. Every universe has its rules, and for all intents and purposes, they're too beasty to be acceptable just cause.

I think I'll wait for SE's take on them, if a question is asked about them being potentially playable in a Live Letter.
If FFXIV does get around to making a 7th playable race, it's high time for SE to actually make them start in their home village and have them enter Eorzea around the Air Ship envoy quest. Let's say Viera become playable; while people will be happy to just be able to play as this race, it's still going to be jarring to have them suddenly show up in La Noscea, Gridania, or Ul'dah and no one in the MSQ seeming to care about your long ears (or demonic horns, in the Auri's case).

[Berret_Snowbear]

I think I'll wait for SE's take on them, if a question is asked about them being potentially playable in a Live Letter.

Not to mention that this is THEIR universe, they can mold it as they please when ever they want.