Quote Originally Posted by Elliebird View Post
The most common complaint I hear is that it'd just be another humanoid race with animal appendages attached. If we look at the original design for Au Ra, they were much more bestial, but they ended up becoming humans with horns and scales. Like Miqo'te are humans with cat ears and tails. Viera would just end up being humans with bunny ears... If we actually look at these races, there isn't much variety among them.
The trick is to add some cool background flavour lore to the races to sell them. Like how the Argonians would just be another reptile race....if they weren't drinking the sap of sentient hive minden trees that buff the hell out of them when a war is near. None of this comes up in gameplay of course, but knowing this makes the race awesome. SE could learn from this. The current playable races are kinda bland