Dear Square Enix, let's talk about racial traits?

[Arzalis]

This has been happening since ARR.

In 1.0 through 2.0, armor had actual holes for tails and specialized bits for ears.

The first thing that went away were the tail holes, and they just accepted that the tails would clip straight through whatever they made, fitted to the tailless Hyur.

Someone down the line decided that making a whole separate model for the body piece was a waste of resources just for a single race and they started to get phased out in the subsequent ARR patches. And then ears started to go away in ShB. Sometimes they come out with special pieces like the ShB dragoon armor with an armored tail like the darklight armor had in 1.0 for Miqo'te, but it's rare that happens. A part of me wants to blame the new races since they started getting lazy right before or at the point a new race was released but it could be a coincidence and just the result of a directive made at the same time to spend less resources on that.

The problem isn't the new races. They started going into full production on FF16 right around the time ShB was being made. FF14 has been phoned in since then on almost every aspect except the MSQ. They cut out a dungeon every patch, they stopped including racial traits in armor, they reused more gear, they've increased the time between patches, etc. etc.

I think it's not hard to come to conclusion that CBU3 is just prioritizing their other game right now at the expense of this one.