Building a better Alphinaud

[CrownySuccubus]

They are so disconnected from their Western playerbase that they thought Hrothgar would somehow captivate the WoW audience when their new race has at least twice as many options as our take on a beast race. All they had to do was add eyebrows to Highlander. Goodness, I'm told that even the new dragon race has better eyebrows than them even.

Is it really that bad to ask to not be ignored like this?

Nope. You can't try to pull this card when you have yet to prove your argument about Fordola. You don't get to pretend these are the same.

[aveyond-dreams]

Nope. You can't try to pull this card when you have yet to prove your argument about Fordola. You don't get to pretend these are the same.

I don't believe its unreasonable to say that a redheaded Scottish woman with a sword would sell more copies of this game if she had her own cgi art instead of the twins. There's certainly more to market there. Of course that depends on what playerbase you're aiming for.

[CrownySuccubus]

I don't believe its unreasonable to say that a redheaded Scottish woman with a sword would sell more copies of this game if she had her own cgi art instead of the twins. There's certainly more to market there. Of course that depends on what playerbase you're aiming for.

A red-headed "Scottish" (WTF?) woman being inherently more popular a pair of cute white-haired elf twins is a VERY unreasonable statement to make with no proof to back it up.

[KariTheFox]

A red-headed "Scottish" (WTF?)

Yeah, this one threw me. Listening to her English dub, her accent sounds more like Northern English/Yorkshire than Scottish. Same with Rauhban.

[tokinokanatae]

I don't believe its unreasonable to say that a redheaded Scottish woman with a sword would sell more copies of this game if she had her own cgi art instead of the twins. There's certainly more to market there. Of course that depends on what playerbase you're aiming for.

I think that's extremely unreasonable without any logical evidence backing it up, and I also like Fordola a lot. (In fact, she was my favorite NPC introduced in Stormblood.)

People point to things like polls because--in aggregate--they give you a pretty solid idea of how the fanbase feels about particular characters. We know that Emet-Selch is likely going to be number one, G'raha Tia will be high, and Haurchefant will also be pretty high. This is not because they are three of my favorite NPCs in the game and therefore my taste is what the game follows, but because they are always at the higher end of the spectrum and have proven to have lasting staying power.

If you want people to take posts like these seriously, you need to provide evidence that isn't just "I think" or "my taste is..."