Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
WoW's primary "ugly, but not too ugly" races are fairly well played - for being ugly .

https://i.imgur.com/h9knQDB.png

It's definitely true pretty races get played more but imo SE has no really ugly (maybe it should be "different" than ugly but yeah..) / beast. Roe may vaguely pass that, but imo not at least in comparison to what I think of as such when thinking of other games (so.. maybe some people think we do already). I thought Au Ra might be that from concept art but I don't think so from what is currently available.

Anyway while I agree pretty, cute, standard = more popular I feel that the argument isn't as good in preventing ugly/beast at the moment because there is either only 1 or 0 (0 imo) races that meet that standard -meaning there is currently a void for one type of description and many for the other (the cute race population is going to share space with Viera when it comes out).
The Horde had to get blood elves in TBC because the faction was at risk of dying out, and now blood elves are the second most played race behind humans. That list also doesn't include allied races, and void elves have grown to outnumber most Alliance core races.