Mammalian Viera-like beast men.

[UmJammerSully]

there has to be a reason other than aesthetics to just add another intelligent race to the game.

Um... Why? Aesthetics are nice too. They could add 10 whole new races and it wouldn't have any sort of negative impact on the gameplay. I don't see the problem with adding new races just for the hell of it. Sometimes more fluff that doesn't really have any bearing on gameplay is still a good thing, it gives character to the game. It's just not as important as actual content.

[AceofRains]

Um... Why? Aesthetics are nice too. They could add 10 whole new races and it wouldn't have any sort of negative impact on the gameplay. I don't see the problem with adding new races just for the hell of it. Sometimes more fluff that doesn't really have any bearing on gameplay is still a good thing, it gives character to the game. It's just not as important as actual content.

Maybe someday far down the road, but from a current development standpoint its irrelevent.

using WoW as a base here, dont flame me. but im pretty sure that they didn't add races til burning crusade, which was what the second expansion? If they ask us about adding a race now, it probably means they want to start working on it, but its not nessesary in the least. Want more variety? Develop more jobs for people to get exited about.