So what is a Hrothgar?

[Daralii]

I don't know why they think male bunnies would look weird considering there is cat boys in the game and they look just fine. They even did concept art for them and they looked pretty good. I think it just boils down to Yoshi-P's personal taste. He is the one, after all, that rejected the mature Lakshmi look and replaced her with a waifu version (Soken admits to having to fight to use his original music for Lakshmi since Yoshi-P wanted a cuter girl to sing). Also, the massive downgrade that Au Ra females got from their concept art... It's pretty easy to see where his preferences lie.

As coy as they are being, I imagine they are going to pull the whole... "Viera are the last race... we made Hrothgar before them! Tee hee!" card.

He also always appended that statement with a "Probably".

[reivaxe]

He also always appended that statement with a "Probably".

This.

You don't really say stuff like that. It dates your game if you're like "Yeah, this is the LAST race we're adding...".

Now, a game like GW2 can say the're not adding any new races at all because they have legit reasons being that tons of time, money and resources go into designing these racial starting points, race based quest, lore between the races and the fact that their races are all very visually different meaning they would have far more work to do in fitting clothing for them. But this aint GW2.

As for FF14, I can easily see a time where they stop making races but add in mix-race tribe options that reuse the same assets and models and animations but with some key features from other races. Like Potato with bunny ears and different faces or a Roe with horns and scale tail. There's more than one mixed raced NPC in the game so I could see that happening down th line.

[Mansion]

This.

You don't really say stuff like that. It dates your game if you're like "Yeah, this is the LAST race we're adding...".

Yeah, it could actually build up to the expected "suprise" of having two races actually. They seemed really cheeky about the way they talked about it in both fanfests.