Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Iscah]

You can play as a Hrothgar male from lvl 1 MSQ all the way to the end of 6.2 MSQ, they are beastly looking instead of more humanoid like the other races, so "Normal People" looking characters has already been shown to not matter.

So because they dropped the ball on the headgear for Hrothgar/Viera then we should just not have any new races?

That isn't what I said. I said that any new races would need to get the same outfits and hairstyles as the other races.

So your hypothetical robots and glowy soul people would still be stuck with standard human hairstyles and costumes.

And I do think Hrothgar are a step beyond what should fit within the established MSQ, but they're still flesh-and-blood living people. I don't think that's a boundary that they can go outside in designing player races who are introduced at the beginning of the story.

Personally I hate the hrothgar starting chestpiece. The corset-looking bit around the abdomen really kills it for me.

It looks more gladiator than corset to me.

When we have murderbots building "the cafe at the end of the universe", i don't see how any of those suggestions would be unnatural, "normal" being what it is.

Those are at the opposite end of the plot, and they are NPCs. Their existence in post-game Endwalker is a new and unique thing there. It's a completely different situation to introducing them as a playable race in ARR.