Viera Race "Confirmed" for 5.0! Are you gonna change races?

[LineageRazor]

ok? you know other mmos exist beside ffxiv right? They manage also put up races that are not basiacly 3 flavours of cat girls. I dont know why the other guy even latched on "beast" without me mentioning it and you also.

The thing about FFXIV, though, is that the main storyline clearly features a division between the player races and the beastman races. If a non-human race is added, either the entire storyline needs to be rewritten for them, or some other explanation needs to be added as to why this particular non-human race doesn't count as "beastman".

This is the primary reason why it is very doubtful that we'll ever have a player race that truly looks inhuman. We'll get tall humans, burly humans, childlike humans, humans with a few animal bits on, but always, always humans.

Other MMOs don't have this problem, because they DON'T have humans vs inhumans as a primary storyline driver - or, at least, when they do, they design it that way from the ground up and make it a primary gameplay feature with two separate storylines (such as human faction vs orc faction in WoW).