Quote Originally Posted by reivaxe View Post
It's not just a case of "a bit more work".

Like, I agree with the argument that the head of a Hrothgar isn't something inherently doomed because humans haven't figured out how to put hats or helms on cat heads. That's some straight up stupid non-sense as shown by Charr.

The problem with both Viera and Hrothgar is that they simply don't have a system or pipeline in place to accommodate such heads for hats and open face helms. The reason why GW2 can have Charr be the beastly all-4s-running animal leg and claw having cat monsters that they are is because they made the game with the idea to have them in. GW2 has never added a new race and the GW2 devs have gone on record saying that they simply will not add any new races to the game as it's too much work on all fronts. So if the Charr weren't in the game from the start there's no way the dev would greenlight them as a new race that would require they go back and make these systems in the middle of supporting a living game.

So it's not at all impossible, it's just a stupid amount of work at this point. Kinda like how an ass slider isn't impossible, it's just that given the way gear in this game is made that would require a stupid amount of work as there's no system in place fore it. So much so that it's basically a non-starter unless they update the game engine and such. Like I've said many times before, if the new races had Miqote heads with alterations there would be no problem making hair and hats and helms that Miqote wear work on them. Asking any dev to make new systems for the library of hats and helms in this game to look good on these races after this many years of content is a tall order.

Maybe it's something they're working on behind the scenes, maybe it's something for a new FFMMO or new Engine ... but I'm not shocked it's something they couldn't do rn.
You know what's stupid? That they put themselves in this situation haha. They wouldn't be facing this dilemma if they had just gone with full Viera. But now, they had to make this weird choice that we "needed" an animal race.
So the burden's on them to deliver what the people want, a sizable amount of people. I've never seen anything on the forum get nearly as much support as this subject has.