Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Abriael]

Quite frankly your reasons for why it shouldn't are bull crap. You try to defend this game's lore like it's a baby and honestly the lore is spotty at best. As others have said there is absolutely no reason it shouldn't happen even from a story stand point and I stand by that till the end. As others have stated and I was going to bring up a brand new Au'ra that no one has ever seen before and no one bats a damn eye? I for one am sick of these races.

I thought you were done with me because *insert random insult here* Make up your own mind, will you?

You keep bringing up the Au Ra, ignoring the fact that the Au Ra aren't beastmen. There's absolutely nothing anywhere in the game's dialogue that conflicts with au ra being warriors of light and members of the scions. There are plenty of reasons. The fact that you don't want to accept it because you're so in love with the idea of playing a furry race that you get really heated if someone argues against it, is pretty much inconsequential.

You're also confusing the "lore" with the existing game dialogue. It's not just the lore that paints beastmen as something intrinsically extraneous to the warrior of light and the scions. It's the game's own script.

Yet the last races added to WoW were werewolf, goblin and a big panda. You know why? Because they realized that the "pretty/human" base was already over-served. As a game dev myself, I would consider it a waste of resources to invest more in an already over-served segment of the player base. Attracting players that have not been catered to would be a way more wise investment of my time and resources. However, it also has to be a skeleton that can easily get gear migration from other races and wear helmets with little or no modification.

As "a game dev yourself" (unproven, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt), you should probably realize that WoW is in an entirely different situation with its audience and resources. They have a much larger active crowd, which makes catering to smaller niches still profitable, and a lot more inertia and critical mass which means that they don't need as many marketing crutches to stay afloat. A minority of the WoW playerbase is a hell of a lot bigger than a minority of the FFXIV playerbase.

On top of that, WOW encourages alts, which means that each players will create more characters, making a higher degree of variety more beneficial. On the other hand, Final Fantasy XIV's game system are the exact opposite, actively discouraging the creation of alts, causing more to stick to vanilla/cool/handsome/cute/sexy characters, as it's their only in-game alter-ego.

If you think that a completely unknown wolf race would have a bigger or even remotely comparable promotional effect than one of Final Fantasy's most iconic races, which on top of that is about to be brought back under the spotlight by a remaster, I certainly hope for your sake that you're sticking to development and not handling the marketing of whatever game you're working on.

I would say that knife cuts both ways. Few people posting against it over and over on this kind of thread are not a real opposition either.

Interesting moot point responding to nothing, considering that no one argued that the masses are against it.