Bring WOWs allied race mechanic to XIV

[hobostew]

Allied races were basically additional character customization sold as a major expansion feature and it annoys me to no end even now.

[Iscah]

The closest interpretation to an allied race in XIV would be a third clan for the already existing races, which would be - you guessed it - just recolors with tiny different details like idk, Au Ras with different colored scales, or highlanders with actual eyebrows (when they could just give those features to the already existing clans)

I don't think they can just give those features to the existing clans. Not without overhauling the character creator, at any rate.

It possibly actually is easier for them to add "new races" that are just another two clans of an existing race than it is to add things to the existing races.

[Reinha]

Getting clan recolors would be nice, but from a senseless reputation grind? Absolutely not.

[MilkieTea]

I read out the title of this thread to my boyfriend and he INSTANTLY yelled "NOOOOOOOO, OH MY GOD NOOO".

There's your answer.

[Zer0]

WoW has worse character customization than most cell phone games. Allied races are a crappy thing put in to force people to keep playing. Nobody plays wow because they enjoy it.

[Ultaniku]

I’m going to say a big thank you, next to allied race anything in XIV. I’d rather the races we have see some changes done to them to make them better instead.

[Rae88]

I read out the title of this thread to my boyfriend and he INSTANTLY yelled "NOOOOOOOO, OH MY GOD NOOO".

There's your answer.

Those rep grinds were obnoxious for reskins of existing races (except for vulpera, that was a GOOD reskin. All the other ones were obvious reskins).

[Vahlnir]

Those rep grinds were obnoxious for reskins of existing races (except for vulpera, that was a GOOD reskin. All the other ones were obvious reskins).

Zandalari Trolls and Dark Iron Dwarves were worth the effort as well, in my opinion. I might have felt a little differently about the Legion ARs though if I hadn't been finished with the rep grinding months before they released. lol Even so, they weren't particularly fun to unlock. They just took a long time, which was the entire point. The dev team wanted it to take as long as humanly possible.

[Fellgon]

Zandalari Trolls and Dark Iron Dwarves were worth the effort as well, in my opinion. I might have felt a little differently about the Legion ARs though if I hadn't been finished with the rep grinding months before they released. lol Even so, they weren't particularly fun to unlock. They just took a long time, which was the entire point. The dev team wanted it to take as long as humanly possible.

Never ever lock races behind rep will be fun, it killed us of boredom. I mean, if all these new implementations of wow be any good, players would never quit it to come to 14.

[Vahlnir]

Never ever lock races behind rep will be fun, it killed us of boredom. I mean, if all these new implementations of wow be any good, players would never quit it to come to 14.

To be fair, it wasn't ARs that drove me away. It was the mindset of the dev team and their many other design decisions.