Lopporits - New Race

[totallysinglish]

i love the idea of them being a playable race too! it would be nice to see them being implemented

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO I would say Loporrits wouldn't even need as many customization options. I feel like most players would be fine with a few face options along with choices of fur color and just ignore the whole hairstyles thing and instead make sure Loporrits could atleast visibly wear any piece of headgear in the game. A complaint alot of hrothgar and viera players have atm as well. Though I'd probably argue that I'd want any helmet worn by a loporrit to be open faced. Idk I think it would just look more appropriate for them

[MsQi]

But for them, it's adorable

[Evergrey]

They said they weren't going to add more races after Au'ra as well...

However they added viera due to all the threads asking for them non stop. Even more so after we got the Ivalice raid in Stormblood. Hrothgar was added because of repeated threads asking for a less humanoid race.

Yeah, they did say so after AuRa.
But after all the criticism from Viera and Hrothgars limitations (eventho it was known way ahead and people said they were fine with it) I can't see that SE want to go through with another race again.

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IMO I would say Loporrits wouldn't even need as many customization options. I feel like most players would be fine with a few face options along with choices of fur color and just ignore the whole hairstyles thing and instead make sure Loporrits could atleast visibly wear any piece of headgear in the game. A complaint alot of hrothgar and viera players have atm as well. Though I'd probably argue that I'd want any helmet worn by a loporrit to be open faced. Idk I think it would just look more appropriate for them

Didn't see this before.
But yeah, people were pretty much like that with Viera and Hrothgar, "people would be fine" but see where we are now on that aspect.
Never underestimate that when people get something they will want more and more.

[MsQi]

IMO I would say Loporrits wouldn't even need as many customization options. I feel like most players would be fine with a few face options along with choices of fur color and just ignore the whole hairstyles thing and instead make sure Loporrits could atleast visibly wear any piece of headgear in the game. A complaint alot of hrothgar and viera players have atm as well. Though I'd probably argue that I'd want any helmet worn by a loporrit to be open faced. Idk I think it would just look more appropriate for them

ok, at this point, at the rate things are going, it's going to be another 5 or 10 years before Vierra and Hrothgar are caught up in the headgear department, if ever? (I mean they might hire additional hands and knock it out, but...)

So you introduce another race that will also require a lot of extra work to make every piece of headgear work, what do you do?

1. Put in all the work, pulling all the all-nighters, resorting to slave labour, to get all headwear working at launch only to incite the wrath of every Viera and Hrothgar player?

2. Release them with only a few things working, only giving them new headwear alongside or after Viera and Hrothgar, probably extending the process another decade.

And you can't just ignore hairstyles. Hairstyles are an expected feature in this game. They would need to make sure everyone understands. Everytime they talk about them leading up to release they would need a slide stating in huge red letters, in every language: "Loporrits get no Hairstyles!". They might change the name of the race to "No Hair Loporrits" (pun intended). And you would still have people at launch saying "I fantasiaed (sp?) to No Hair Loporrit and I can't change my hair, what gives Yoshi P!?"

It's kobayashi maru!

[LeonKeyh]

This is extremely unlikely to happen. Even ignoring the fact that the drama surrounding the latest races added (that were added after they said "We're not adding any more races."), they, again, said no more races. Definitely won't be any because of the same issues they're running into with Viera head gear.

Also, it doesn't make sense from a story perspective and story is everything. MSQ definitely has you "discovering" the Loporrits for the first time in EW, it wouldn't make sense for someone in ARR to be seeing them run around and then be surprised at the sight of them (especially if that person is playing one).

[SherlottaEryut]

Yeah, they did say so after AuRa.
But after all the criticism from Viera and Hrothgars limitations (eventho it was known way ahead and people said they were fine with it) I can't see that SE want to go through with another race again.

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Didn't see this before.
But yeah, people were pretty much like that with Viera and Hrothgar, "people would be fine" but see where we are now on that aspect.
Never underestimate that when people get something they will want more and more.

I don't know where you got this information from, but the developers never asked the community if they would be fine with Viera and Hrothgar's limitations.

[dsgawwewerfw]

They are what Viera should have been!!

[Syln]

Can't wait for the topic in 5 years : Earless new hairstyles look terrible !

That being said i agree, i would love to be able to play as lopporits :3

[Darksummoner]

With what Square-Enix did to Hrothgar and the new hairstyles I would say the last thing they need to do is add another race. The team, currently, still needs lots of skill just doing hairstyles the RIGHT way for races. They sure as hell don't need to add another race. That needs to be their last focus within the game.