New Races.

[LaylaTsarra]

If they add races it will be male Viera and female Hrothgar. I doubt we'll see them.

[Infindox]

There won't be new races. It's a long, LONG stretch but if we get something it would be male Viera and female Hrothgar, but I HIGHLY doubt it.

[White_Wolf_X]

Pretty sure Yoshida said that they won't be adding anymore races, because of the amount of work it take to make every ingame item fit onto a new body type.

Also let's maybe get female Hrothgar and male viera before even thinking about more races.

[ReynTime]

Personally even knowing how they did Hrothgar (don't like how they have to fantasia to change their hair, and don't like how they can't walk with a straight back, or how they miss out on a lot of headgear appearance) if it was another proper beast race that would make me more excited than whatever they might have planned for their Endwalker duties. In spite of the three issues I mentioned, I like playing Hrothgar. They're the only non Hyur, Lala or Elezen race I like the design for.
If it was another cute/sexy demi-human race I wouldn't care in the least.

Pretty sure Yoshida said that they won't be adding anymore races, because of the amount of work it take to make every ingame item fit onto a new body type.

Also let's maybe get female Hrothgar and male viera before even thinking about more races.

There won't be new races. It's a long, LONG stretch but if we get something it would be male Viera and female Hrothgar, but I HIGHLY doubt it.

Oh my god. The topic creator explicitly said this is hypotethical. No one really believes a new race will be announced.

[znushu]

ngl i'd love for them to add in Gria's in the game.
just imagining having Horns, Wings, and Tail seems pretty lit to me.

[Infindox]

Oh my god. The topic creator explicitly said this is hypotethical. No one really believes a new race will be announced.

You'd be surprised.
Alright, since you wanted to get angry at me about my post, I'll answer the hypothetical. If it happened, I'm pretty sure most of the base would be extremely upset. People were ALREADY upset that Hrothgar and Viera are still locked to one gender, and I feel like adding another race would just stir up hate.

[lezard21]

Personally I'd love it if they eventually added Bangaa as a playable race. Bangaa and Seeq not being playable in XII was a huge waste ("let's have this amazing fantasy setting with a lot of different races but you only get to play humans and 1 bunny girl"), but Seeq would be very problematic to implement as a race due to their body shape requiring major adjustments to armor.

Also maybe Burmecians but Square seems to have forgotten the rat people even exist.

[WhiteArchmage]

In the hypothetical.

SE: So, no new hairstyles, no Male Viera or Female Hrothgar, instead here's a new flavor of Midlander because technical limitations, pls understand.

Playerbase: ...huh?
Viera/Hrothgar players: Am I a joke to you?

[Nayout]

Guys, all this is hypothetical, I say it is not that someone here in the forum had information about the announcements of the Fanfest

[Kemiko]

Pretty sure Yoshida said that they won't be adding anymore races, because of the amount of work it take to make every ingame item fit onto a new body type.

This right here. When Hrothgar (Ronso) and Viera (Viis) were added for 5.0, it was explained that this was going to be the last time they implemented a new race to the game. If I'm not mistaken, it was Hrothgar, specifically, that Yoshida wanted to add despite the fans desire for Viera (dating back to the pre-ARR race addition vote) and, due to the resurgence in popularity for Viera thanks to the Ivalice Raids (and showing how they'd look via Fran) Viera was added at the same time.

Edit: To answer the hypothetical nature of the topic, I don't think such a thing will occur for the aforementioned reason although I would love for them to go back on that declaration and add more. There's plenty of available races in the franchise that'd I'd like to see (the mentioned Gria would be fantastic imho, or the ratfolk as seen in FFIX though I wonder if the design team would believe it'd clash with the Qiqirin) so, I wouldn't be quite as excited if they announced another new race unique to FFXIV.