Everyone hates the elf race?

[Drayce1]

Im always an Elv, everquest FFXI, FFXIV.... Tallest and elegant.(tho i s think roegaydens are taller in FFXIV).

Who wants to be 1/34789438947384 Miquote and 1/34743349 Lalafells?

I feel better knowing im in the minority.

Personally feel, Elv are better looking Paladins, Lancers and i would say Bard but that AF is ugly as hell.

Oh yeah, wait until Ninja and Samurai comes out, see which race rocks them the best.

Not as so in Everquest actually.

In EQ1 the high elves were your standard fantasy elf. They looked regal, in luclin with the model upgrades the females had wide hips and large busts for some reason. But their were 3 other elves as well. The woodelf were small and somewbat wild looking. The dark elves were haughty, sinister looking, short like the woodelves, then tbeir was the half elves which were a cross between human and mostly woodelf but sometimes high elf too, weird thing on them is they were taller than wood amd dark, but shorter than human and high, the females had huge hips though for whatever weird reason. None of these elves were lanky at all. In EQ2 the elven bodies were more normalized, like they were all based on the same body models except for half elf females, for whatever reason, they had wider hips. Guess they wanted to keep something.

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[Angelov-Mercy]

They just look strange, if they where proportioned like the elves in LOTR, Im sure they would be a beautiful race to play, but...sigh, this is just how they come off as.


X'D

[Nonuel]

They just look strange, if they where proportioned like the elves in LOTR, Im sure they would be a beautiful race to play, but...sigh, this is just how they come off as.


X'D

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[Tanama]

They just look strange, if they where proportioned like the elves in LOTR, Im sure they would be a beautiful race to play, but...sigh, this is just how they come off as.X'D

That, right there, is what keeps me from staying as an Elezen. It would be my preferred race if the head size was fixed. And while we're at it, ALL 1.0 and 2.0 races need an overhaul in my opinion. The player models were developed in the mid 2000s during its codename Rapture stage and have not been updated since. I truly wish we get a graphics engine update for upgraded visuals.

Here is a quote from Yoshi P regarding a graphics update.

Q: [...] Is there a chance of FFXIV getting higher graphics settings?

Yoshida: I get asked this a lot lately. The other day it was in China, so I guess it might be a worldwide topic of interest. If you're asking me if there's a possibility in the future, then the answer is probably yes, there is. But if you're asking if we have it planned right now, the answer is no. We don't have anything planned and it's not in any of our milestones.

The reason is very clear. Of course, BD5 is researching and working on new graphics. We can't distance ourselves from the latest game development techniques, so we're doing our own tests as well. But FFXIV already has 20,000 assets for equipment alone, and I don't even want to think about how much it would cost to convert all of them to the new graphics pipeline.

Since FFXIV had PS3 support, its graphics technology is 2 generations behind. If we had high poly models/hi-res textures ((unclear)) then we could just swap them out, but we don't. A lot of things were created low poly/low-res from the start for cost-saving, so we would have to recreate all of them in order for the improved graphics to look good.

Some people say that if we don't spend those costs now then we won't be competitive with other games, but right now, we're still plenty competitive within the MMO genre, so there's no need to rush yet. Plus, we have to measure what percentage of players are actually using these new GPUs. And so long as FFXIV continues to support the PS4, I absolutely want to avoid mixing the graphics pipelines. If that's the case, then we can't focus solely on the PC, and it's hard to consider it until, say, the PS4 is replaced by the next generation. Right now, I think our priority should be figuring out how to more efficiently create lots of assets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._and_soken_at/

[Haxaan]

They just look strange, if they where proportioned like the elves in LOTR, Im sure they would be a beautiful race to play, but...sigh, this is just how they come off as.


X'D

This is hilarious, but they really aren't that bad. I do wish the heads were a little more proportionate to the body, but honestly the problem can be "fixed" by using hair or head gear that makes the head look larger. But perception is reality I guess.

[SturmChurro]

This is hilarious, but they really aren't that bad. I do wish the heads were a little more proportionate to the body, but honestly the problem can be "fixed" by using hair or head gear that makes the head look larger. But perception is reality I guess.

Yeah, some outfit coices can make them look pretty decent.

[Sandoria]

Ngl, that shoop is terrible. Personally, I think some of the races have weird baby heads on grown adult bodies and it weirds me out. So in choosing either a long neck or a jarring toddler head, long neck wins every time. Other people like the races they play though so why would I go out of my way to complain about them?

[Nonuel]

If they actually looked like they did in their art. I'm sure people would play them far more.



However they made their necks too long, their heads tiny, and their shoulder span too wide. It doesn't look unique, it just looks off. I personally would of liked to play one.

It's like they looked at the female concept art there, and decided to reverse that shoulder-to-hip ratio.

[Angelov-Mercy]

That, right there, is what keeps me from staying as an Elezen. It would be my preferred race if the head size was fixed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._and_soken_at/

Yup, if the elves end up looking more like the twins on the opening carriage ride I may use my fantasia to turn Angel into one, nothing against Miqo'te I love the kitty ears, but I like elves too, it's what I played in Dungeons and Dragons...and my Samurai/Scholar is already a neko.

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lol yes

[Bluvirus]

I love elezen but I have trouble looking past their run style. It's trivial of me but it's why I couldn't stay elezen