The cat's (or femhroth in this case) outta the bag

[Imora]

I don't actually know if FFXIV has feet rigged to bend at the toes (probably not?) but if it did animating "digitigrade" races to always be tiptoeing would've been a decent, if lazy, compromise. Wouldn't look very good with most footwear most likely, but it wouldn't require refitting every single one to an entirely new model

Wow did it(hooved and wolf races), but TES stopped after Oblivion because flat feet are easier to make boots for. Everquest 2 also has feet like this.

Wow gets around it by cutting boots off below the ankle on Draenei, Tauren and Worgen. Trolls particularly have "special" three toed feet that also don't fit in boots.

In morrowind, beast races just couldn't wear boots. They could as lso just make them invisible.

Options abound.

[HollowedDoll]

Wow did it(hooved and wolf races), but TES stopped after Oblivion because flat feet are easier to make boots for. Everquest 2 also has feet like this.

Wow gets around it by cutting boots off below the ankle on Draenei, Tauren and Worgen. Trolls particularly have "special" three toed feet that also don't fit in boots.

In morrowind, beast races just couldn't wear boots. They could as lso just make them invisible.

Options abound.

Wow doesn't use the same body mesh for 90% races, or actual 3d armor ( sans the glued hot mess for some of the newer sets ) so kind of a moot point.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

Wow did it(hooved and wolf races), but TES stopped after Oblivion because flat feet are easier to make boots for. Everquest 2 also has feet like this.

Wow gets around it by cutting boots off below the ankle on Draenei, Tauren and Worgen. Trolls particularly have "special" three toed feet that also don't fit in boots.

In morrowind, beast races just couldn't wear boots. They could as lso just make them invisible.

Options abound.

It's highly likely if they were given unusual feet, it'd mean no boots... which after how much backlash the bunny hats got them, I don't think they wanna face the same thing for boots.

The character creation system they're using obviously has some limitations, that have made some things either impossible or far more difficult/time consuming (bunny hats, butt sliders to name some of the biggest issues the community has).

If the choice is- normal feet, and normal boot options with little to no backlash- or put in considerable effort into making more complex feet and then getting a very angry community as your reward... well, it's fairly obvious what choice any developer would make.

[Itsgigglez]

It's highly likely if they were given unusual feet, it'd mean no boots... which after how much backlash the bunny hats got them, I don't think they wanna face the same thing for boots.

Especially the 2b boots, people would riot if they couldn't wear those.

[-JayJay-]

Their faces weren't that bestial in the FFX.

No they definitely looked bestial, they had distinctly feline facial features:

Though they looked a lot more softer compared to the males' more rugged looking features.

[LisSquid]

I still believe we're putting way too much stock in that concept art. Since we're going several pages on it: Remember the Au Ra concept art. Fool me once..

We won't get beast feet. We can't even get bare human feet.

[Iscah]

No they definitely looked bestial, they had distinctly feline facial features:

Though they looked a lot more softer compared to the males' more rugged looking features.

That surely wouldn't come out too differently to the sketched face in the concept art? It's really only the dark markings around the eyes (which might be makeup) that define the sides of the nose.

[MoofiaBossVal]

It's highly likely if they were given unusual feet, it'd mean no boots... which after how much backlash the bunny hats got them, I don't think they wanna face the same thing for boots.

The fandom would accept it if the devs made it look good.

Hooves are kind of a selling point. If you have hooves or clawed feet, you probably don't want to cover up it with some generic human looking boots. The key is that there just need to be enough visual customization to the feet. Even doing the bare minimum like FFXIV does and giving your 4 options to pick from would be good, so long as the feet were visually distinct.

[Senn]

It's really only the dark markings around the eyes (which might be makeup) that define the sides of the nose.

I went ahead and edited out the dark markings just to see it.

[Raikai]

Wait, such a commotion for a concept art that shows like 40% of the character sitting in a way that you can't even tell how the proportions are?

About the face... As far as I'm concerned, most of the races get a "cute" option, and that is probably how it translated into that art style.