Future Races for FFXIV

[Surian]

It would be most likely (and only natural) that the Padjal are going to be playable. After all, body-wise they're Hyurs, so it wouldnt take a lot, or -any- coding to have armor fit on them and such.

"We gave your Hyur horns! You're now an entirely diffirent race to play! Rejoice!"

Personally looking through Limsa, there are a lot of (friendly) Mamool Ja travelers and merchants there for no apparent reason. Qiqirn and Goblins too. While it would be an absolute PAIN to code armor for Mamool Ja, Qiqirn and Goblins, basicly having to redo EVERYTHING, i'd love to play as either three of them. But since they have no allegiance to any group, it would be very unlikely.

But the thing that would interest me the most are mixed races. You cant possibly make me believe that over the thousands of years the lands of Eorzea and the people that came there are old, there wasnt any inter-species things going on. I mean, just look around in town with actual players. Elezen x Miqo'te couples, Roegadyns and Lalafell couples... We could have a lot of fun having mixed races.

[jomoru]

Gria because who cares what Ishgard things they are nazis.

[Shikiseki]

Am I the only one that's missing the playable Moogle race like FFTA?
I just wanted to be kupo, kupo!

Vieras are very popular too but seeing as they have a male and female version of every race, I doubt they will make it ( just imagine a male Viera haha )

[Gwaeron]

I'm sure that whatever they come up with will be perfectly fine, I just hope they don't retcon yet again and add padjal as a playable race. The FFCC world has a few races they could pick and choose from. I just hope they'll add a completely new race. This game already has enough of an identity crisis as it is, everything new that is added is a reference to an older game, there is nothing genuinely FFXIV anymore.

To those saying Ishgardians could be like Burmecians; no they can't, they're wildwood elezen.

Vieras are very popular too but seeing as they have a male and female version of every race, I doubt they will make it ( just imagine a male Viera haha )

Ha! A male viera, clearly that's ridiculous! Like male miqo'te or female roegadyn! If they do add viera (which is one of the example races they had in a poll asking if people wanted new races), I hope the race's general looks will be closer to the FFTA/FFTA2/FFXII:RW viera than the FFXII viera.

[shadowrell_d-_-b]

padjal seem most likely even with lore issues, they can easily give reason to a padjal uprising and the race itself wouldn't require a lot of work to put in (as others have stated above).

also would be the first race that characters were within the childhood range of looks (I don't count lala's they all look like stuffed animals young or old ;P), something that most RPGs love to do within the numerous characters usable in a party (notice how there is always that one kid party member that can fight with the older characters!)

all these things lead me to strongly feel padjal as the next playable race!

[Hysterior]

Therer were Viera in game before... but Miqote ate them all....

[heheesyo]

They're never going to add a race that doesn't have highly customizable features. Tonberries all look pretty much the same other than their clothing occasionally. I don't think they'll add races from other random, unrelated ff games either. Yeah, the races from this game are pretty much reworks of the ffxi races, but when se adds a new race I figure it will be a new one to ff. And viera are too similar to miqote in that they're pretty much human with animal ears. There's already a massive overpopulation of cat people. Add bunnies to the mix and imagine what our community will look like. I can already imagine the qq threads of people that already used their fantasia. xD

[LineageRazor]

Animal fetish: I think the appeal of cat-girl, bunny-girl, whatever-girl isn't so much that they're part animal, but that they're "exotic". They appeal to people for the same reason that pointy ears appeal to elf-fans (or Vulcan-fans), or even more mundane, slanted eyes or dark skin or white skin appeals to many people in real life. It's just another way of saying, "Here's an exotic type of human for you to enjoy!"

Padjal: Folks have brought up the fact that Padjal are essentially slaves to the elementals, and therefore wouldn't make great adventurers. However, the elementals have been making some unprecedented decisions lately, including allowing mass immigration of adventurers into the Shroud, so it's not outside the realm of possibility for the elementals to decide that, hey, they want some direct representation in the whole adventuring gig. Hence, allowing Padjal to become adventurers, and stepping up the rate of Hyur that transform into Padjal. Not saying that I EXPECT Padjal to become a playable race, but there's plenty of leeway to allow it if SE so chooses.

Tonberries: I want to craft food as a Tonberry. That would be epic. XD

[Skyhound]

SE already confirmed that the Padjal would never become a playable race because of the lore surrounding them. They're supposed to be a special in the lore and SE doesn't want to cheapen them by having thousands of them running around. I would look for the quote of it but I'm on my phone. The point is that Padjal will NEVER be a playable race.

[Hycinthus]

How about something like Elin from TERA?