So.... why the Races from FFXI?

[Arcell]

If I'm not mistaken, our current Eorzean map is not home to the origin city of any of the races, except for the Elezen. It's hard to get a sense or feel for the culture if we can't visit the home cities. All of the races do have their own lore though, problem is hardly anyone pays attention to it. Hell it's in the manual or on the main site, the most basic and early resources we got gave us some decent base lore.

True they didn't release the opposite genders for Miqo'te and Roegadyn at launch but there was lore stating that they have existed since launch. If I'm not mistaken, Galka have never been stated to have ever had female counterparts. Roegadyn have always had them though.

[Zaaku]

These topics prove that it was a big mistake reusing the old races like this. They should have either made a direct sequel to XI or make a new MMO that cut off all ties to XI.

In all honesty. I would have been happier with this. They will never, ever, ever separate FFXI from FFXIV because of the Race choice. No matter how hard they may try the players, at least the old guard, will wonder why things are not more like this or that as they were in FFXI. Hell, the only reason I even started and kept with FFXIV after the launch fiasco is because of the Races. I had hope they would finally come to their senses and make FFXI-2 as they should have done in the first place. Had they used a different set of Races, such as the FFT variants, I wouldn't be nearly as disappointing in this game as I am now.

I feel as if they lied to me. A bait and switch to rope in their FFXI players and offering nothing of what they liked.

[Pixi]

More over, if each race was given its own home nation the game world would be far more dispersed. Not everyone would be huddled in Ul'dah simply because of the market wards. People would be more inclined to stay in their own nation.

Very true. Despite Ul'dah being one of the three *home* nations, it may as well be the equivalent of Jeuno or Whitegate. People hang out there for convenience, not because they actually feel attached to it.

[Zyph]

Hell it's in the manual or on the main site

And that's the only place it's located.

[bobbygunz]

I like the races in FFXIV. That's all that matters.

[abby]

[Nakiami]

They used races that looked the same so the game was familiar to FFXI players so it helped them to change over.

Waiiiiiit, you mean to tell me someone actually payed attention to XIV before it was released!?

Brb, need to check the temperature in Hell.

[Preypacer]

MEH. All I want is my viera and lamia races.

That looks an awful lot like a Lineage 2 Dark Elf female.

[Pixi]

Waiiiiiit, you mean to tell me someone actually payed attention to XIV before it was released!?

Brb, need to check the temperature in Hell.

Plenty of people I knew quit FFXI when FFXIV was announced, because they saw it as a death sentence for FFXI.

[Duelle]

First off we all know the races are carbon copies of what we had in XI. Denial isn't why people are correcting you, they are doing so because they've made a divide between XI's lore and XIV's and expect you to do so as well because that is what is intended.

This is pretty much all that needs to be said as far as the races go. Not to mention on the technical/animation side having races with similar body structure makes animating stuff much easier.

The original dev team obviously had letting go issues, they wanted a brand new world that still felt 'familiar' to players of XI so they transferred the old races with small changes and new names and lore to give things a new spin. Not really sure why they thought this would be preferable to a brand new fresh world with brand new races ( I would have loved to see that... ) but that's not what they decided to do.

It was a business decision. They banked on XI's players moving from XI to XIV. That didn't pan out very well for numerous reasons. The reverse of what Sony wanted to do with EQII (attract new players but got a good chunk of the people who played EQ instead).

most mmos have similar races to other games....so why is it any different here

Wow, TheVedis and I actually agree on something? *pinches self*

That looks an awful lot like a Lineage 2 Dark Elf female.

You're saying that as if it were a bad thing...