Please implement long, more creative hairstyles and make Au'Ra females taller.

[Xerek]

Hate to say it, but this will never happen. Why? The au'ra females were originally tall and fierce. SE then decided to change them into the dragon-waifu we have today. Why? Female miqo'te were popular, elezen and roegadyn females weren't. And they wanted female au'ra to be popular.

I personally hated the change. I feel the final au'ra character design doesn't match the male design at all. I think SE sacrificed creative integrity to pander to the masses, or what they believed the masses wanted. But it's so horribly mismatched. For reference, here is the original female au'ra concept art. I so wish they would have stuck with it.

[Istaru]

Hate to say it, but this will never happen. Why? The au'ra females were originally tall and fierce. SE then decided to change them into the dragon-waifu we have today. Why? Female miqo'te were popular, elezen and roegadyn females weren't. And they wanted female au'ra to be popular.

I personally hated the change. I feel the final au'ra character design doesn't match the male design at all. I think SE sacrificed creative integrity to pander to the masses, or what they believed the masses wanted. But it's so horribly mismatched. For reference, here is the original female au'ra concept art. I so wish they would have stuck with it.

This is why I don’t like Au Ra and I don’t want to see what they would do to the poor Viera if they ever added them. I liked the original concept art too.

[AmaSagahl]

Man, I love that concept art!
And I agree a 100% with you. It does absolutely not match the male design, and even an in-between the original design and current design I would've been fine with - not the way it is now.
You are right, they made the change not because they were convinced it was the best choice in terms of creating a new race, they did it because everything is heading towards more kawaii and cute and that's what a huge part of the playerbase wants. Same with the glamours. I don't like that development. There should be more choices.
And I am certain that I am not the only one thinking so, there must be also a serious amount of gamers interested in more WoW like races and glamours.

But imo, the reason why Elezen and Roegadyn are not very popular, is the design. I find it really hard to make a Roegadyn look interesting and Elezen look like giraffes statue-wise. The male look better often than the females, but have very strange proportions still.

[Galaktica]

Hate to say it, but this will never happen. Why? The au'ra females were originally tall and fierce. SE then decided to change them into the dragon-waifu we have today. Why? Female miqo'te were popular, elezen and roegadyn females weren't. And they wanted female au'ra to be popular.

I personally hated the change. I feel the final au'ra character design doesn't match the male design at all. I think SE sacrificed creative integrity to pander to the masses, or what they believed the masses wanted. But it's so horribly mismatched. For reference, here is the original female au'ra concept art. I so wish they would have stuck with it.

I legit don't think I'll ever get over this. Every time it's brought up, I cry a little inside. That concept art looks incredible and unique within the world of XIV. But nooope, they just had to double down on -

I have to stop. I have to stop. This whole thing triggers me so much lol.