Discussing your 'unpopular' opinions

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

As a tank, every time I see a machinist in party I always think to myself... Why are you here?

*laughs in meta*

[Ametrine]

I don't know if this has been suggested, probably! SE can you please get rid of those awful sandals and give us bare feet instead? Q.Q




Agreed! XD
I still wouldn't mind the fierce version over the cutesy version either of course! I just hope they don't overdo it and make Viera race extreeeeeemely tall. Give us a good height-slider!

SE told us before the sandles are because of how jacked up the run cycles look without a heel on some races. We'll likely never see taller heels for the same reason.

I agree on Viera height, tho I wouldn't be apposed to a max height Viera being an absolute tower. (Not many players max Roe or Elezan ladies, but it's pretty intense to see them) The Ban'gaa we saw were direct rips of FFXII designs, so I really don't know where they'll go with Viera if/when we see them, playable or not.

[Theodric]

SE told us before the sandles are because of how jacked up the run cycles look without a heel on some races. We'll likely never see taller heels for the same reason.

All the more reason to redo the running animations with bare feet in mind, maybe?

[Jijifli]

Some players uploaded screenshots elsewhere of a mod that allows for bare feet, though. So it can be done. I'd never use it myself, though, since I'm super wary of third party programs. I'm inclined to believe that the excuse is to save face - especially since some cultures are apparently offended by the site of bare feet and it could very well be censored in certain versions of the game.

Last Moonfire Faire there were NPC's without the sandel's on.

They just never walked.

[Khalithar]

Here's another one I thought of, crafting and gathering would be 1,000,000x better without any RNG whatsoever and we'd be better off without materia or HQ items.

[Theodric]

RDM needs a slight increase to its damage input.

The usefulness of Vercure and Verraise is largely overblown. It's neat utility, sure, but more often than not both the RDM and a healer will do the swiftcast and raise combo at the same time. Especially in a group that isn't communicating over voice chat.

[DreadRabbit]

Which is sad since recent data showed that we have more NA players than JP players and together with EU, the western part makes up the majority of the playerbase. And its not like they already dont have their cute option.

Unfortunately, even in the west the fandom for those types of races are still very much in the minority. Look at other games: you don't see many people playing animalistic options unless they're: a) cute or b) got a humanoid aspect to it. That doesn't mean folks should stop petitioning for it: you should keep going. However you're walking up a higher hill than you think.

As for the cute thing: people want more cute options for the same reason people want bestial options - the current options don't fit. The Au Ra were an attempt at an elegant type of cuteness, but not everyone likes the sleepy-look they tend to have or that they're trapped into forced face/horn pairings. And Miqo'te are the energetic cute race, but not everyone wants to be a cat. And not everyone wants to be as tiny as a Lalafell and risk big changes to their game just for the sake of being cute. That's why people are hoping for at least one more traditionally cute race that can bridge the gap between au ra/miqo'te and Lalafell.

This next bit isn't against you personally, it's just my final point: you telling people who want a cute race they should be happy with what they've got is no different than folks saying you shouldn't get a bestial race because you have "fierce" races in Roes and Highlanders already. It makes no sense. We want more races because what's out now doesn't feel like "home" yet.

[Ametrine]

All the more reason to redo the running animations with bare feet in mind, maybe?

See, I would consider this a pretty clear waste of dev time. But, I also have no desire to be barefoot, ever.

[Shurrikhan]

I like classes, I liked the cross-class system, and I think new jobs should have had base classes to start from and that the cross-class system should have been fleshed out rather than scrapped.

I practically grieved for the customization opportunities lost when Yoshida decided to just proceed forward with a contradictory and half-assed Cross-class actions and later the underwhelming Role Actions rather than fleshing out class identity, synergies, and job extensions in an actually decent manner.

While classes like Templar, Ronin, and Gunner -- if again made just for the purpose of "filling out" a checklist of class before the real job -- might not be worth missing in and of themselves, the more integrated skills and magics systems a real cross-class system might achieve are certainly worthy of retrospection.

[SlogDog]

Unfortunately, even in the west the fandom for those types of races are still very much in the minority. Look at other games: you don't see many people playing animalistic options unless they're: a) cute or b) got a humanoid aspect to it. That doesn't mean folks should stop petitioning for it: you should keep going. However you're walking up a higher hill than you think.

As for the cute thing: people want more cute options for the same reason people want bestial options - the current options don't fit. The Au Ra were an attempt at an elegant type of cuteness, but not everyone likes the sleepy-look they tend to have or that they're trapped into forced face/horn pairings. And Miqo'te are the energetic cute race, but not everyone wants to be a cat. And not everyone wants to be as tiny as a Lalafell and risk big changes to their game just for the sake of being cute. That's why people are hoping for at least one more traditionally cute race that can bridge the gap between au ra/miqo'te and Lalafell.

This next bit isn't against you personally, it's just my final point: you telling people who want a cute race they should be happy with what they've got is no different than folks saying you shouldn't get a bestial race because you have "fierce" races in Roes and Highlanders already. It makes no sense. We want more races because what's out now doesn't feel like "home" yet.

I'm not sure, khajiit and argonians in ESO are decently popular. Orcs, nords and wood elfs are on the bottom and they are very humaniod, especially the nord. Even very beastly options like Worgen and Tauren in WoW, as low res as they are, are appreciated.

Its not smart to write off less humaniod races so quickly.