VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Soge01]

Tauren, male Worgen and male Pandaren get an exception card from me. The rest... they are definitely furry bait.

[SturmChurro]

I believe that all races that have more "beastly" traits are getting the "money saving" treatment. Of course, Vieras and Hrothgars are the most apparent, but now even the Miqo'tes are having their ears cropped off their hats.

Yep, and it's horrifying. Miqo'te just don't look right in a lot of hats, without ear holes. Free the ears SE! Also the tails.. So less capes!

to be honest, i love bestial races. The further from human, the better for me. But in FFXIV we don't have the option of being anything but a human with animal ears.
Even though the hrothgar is the only option, the fact that he has feet, is hunchbacked, and his emotes demonstrate that they are silly and docile creatures, makes me stay away from the race. I chose Viera for the lore of them being recluses, a more tribal/savage population...

These days I saw on twitter an art of an au'ra with dragon paws. It made me so much wish they were like that.

I can't stand playing full on bestial races. I never play them ever in any game. I've literally never played a khajiit or argonian in any of the ES. I just like to play elves and humans mostly, but this game lacks a proper elf race (I don't like to play elezen; too hard to glamour). Heck, I never play short races either. In crpgs and stuff, like DnD, I say NO to gnomes, dwarves, halflings, whatever else! If viera and hrothgar had paws or animal feet in this game, they would also have no handgear or footgear.

[Avidria]

Shame Sethrak didn't get added as a playable race in WoW. Might've had me considering if I want to play that game for maybe five seconds longer before ugly laughing myself out the door again.

It does kill me though that like... Idk this is probably just a me thing but Hrothgar just seem so soft and cuddly to me. Like they're beastly in the sense that they have more obvious and defined animal traits than slap ear on head but they're so round and soft and clawless. Idk. They're like giant kittens to me.

Not necessarily a complaint, I get it's a stylistic choice of the game overall for... Almost everyone to be incredibly pretty or cutesy. But man what I wouldn't give to be able to play a female character who's both beautiful and also mature and fierce. I could maybe get that if I played around enough with Roe or Highlander, but I've never been a fan of their animations or most of their options. Viera is the closest to what I want and they're tragically allergic to hats.

[Denji]

Tauren, male Worgen and male Pandaren get an exception card from me. The rest... they are definitely furry bait.

"all the furries except the furries" lmao.

[RyuDragnier]

Tauren, male Worgen and male Pandaren get an exception card from me. The rest... they are definitely furry bait.

The ones you listed are the furry races, rofl.

[Akimori]

Shame Sethrak didn't get added as a playable race in WoW. Might've had me considering if I want to play that game for maybe five seconds longer before ugly laughing myself out the door again.

It does kill me though that like... Idk this is probably just a me thing but Hrothgar just seem so soft and cuddly to me. Like they're beastly in the sense that they have more obvious and defined animal traits than slap ear on head but they're so round and soft and clawless. Idk. They're like giant kittens to me.

Not necessarily a complaint, I get it's a stylistic choice of the game overall for... Almost everyone to be incredibly pretty or cutesy. But man what I wouldn't give to be able to play a female character who's both beautiful and also mature and fierce. I could maybe get that if I played around enough with Roe or Highlander, but I've never been a fan of their animations or most of their options. Viera is the closest to what I want and they're tragically allergic to hats.

Because they are! I dont think you meet a single hrothgar that is "mean" without an actual reason for being mean

Magnus? The man is grieving
The bozjan Hrothgars? They're exhausted and fighting for their home land
I dont think radovan and Rostik? They're not really mean, but...abrasive and sarcastic (radovan has his own demons to fight)

But they all have one thing in common; They're all crying about missing their families <3

[Adamantini]

Yep, and it's horrifying. Miqo'te just don't look right in a lot of hats, without ear holes. Free the ears SE! Also the tails.. So less capes!

This scares me a lot. I was going to make a thread talking about how SE has been leaving details aside and how they could fix capes on characters with tails, but seeing how the community here acts when someone criticizes their pet company, I preferred not to waste time.

If viera and hrothgar had paws or animal feet in this game, they would also have no handgear or footgear.

Coming from SE, we'd really run out of shoes anyway, which is sad. But I can't help but be annoyed that Vieras and Hrothgars don't have the paws they had in other games.

[SturmChurro]

This scares me a lot. I was going to make a thread talking about how SE has been leaving details aside and how they could fix capes on characters with tails, but seeing how the community here acts when someone criticizes their pet company, I preferred not to waste time.



Coming from SE, we'd really run out of shoes anyway, which is sad. But I can't help but be annoyed that Vieras and Hrothgars don't have the paws they had in other games.

I actually have a thread I made about tailed races and capes.

Personally, I wouldn't want the unique limbs for viera either way. I think they look better in this game. Their feet look particularly weird in the other game.

[Adamantini]

I actually have a thread I made about tailed races and capes.

Personally, I wouldn't want the unique limbs for viera either way. I think they look better in this game. Their feet look particularly weird in the other game.

As they had promised that Vieras and Hrothgars would have exclusive features, they might as well add that as an option. I'd really pay a Fantasia just to switch from feet to paws. But it's like you said, coming from SE, they are quite capable of leaving paws with no option to wear shoes.

I remember a topic like this... I remember writing that to solve the cape problem: just cut them in half, so the tail would pass through the cut.

[Akira_Kojima]

I'll switch back to Viera once hats extreme is resolved.