A thought about Races.

[Leenk]

I understood the choice to keep the races VERY similar. The familiarity thing makes picking a character much easier for those of us who played XI. But it also invite comparison to XI even more than would be warranted anyhow.
However, in XI, people had been asking for male mithra and female galka (nevermind that there was no such thing as a female galka) for a long long time. And in WOTG they even showed us male mithras. So why, after all this time, did they still chose to make those two races single-gendered. It's almost.... mean.

[Petori]

Races are ok but I'm really disappointed about hair options. Real letdown.

[zaviermhigo]

I'd rather recreate my xi character, than have some weird horns in my head or something. I'm not very open to change, it comes with age.

[Sav]

I would be perfectly happy if they'd revert to the FFXI names. The new ones, with the exception of Lalafell, are a little too awkward for me.

[Rowyne]

I don't mind having similar races to FFXI, but I would have liked to seen additional options (not just the same five).

Plus, I think there needs to be more lore involved with them, and the clans (subraces). For example, there is supposed to be tension between the Duskwight and Wildwood Elezen:

Many of the reclusive Duskwight resort to robbery and pillaging to survive, earning them the scorn of their woodland relatives.

In FFXI, we got to see background on the races through the city missions since each race was tied to a city. Since no one city is a real home to any specific race in FFXIV, we don't see enough of this explored in the game. I hope this will start to take shape in the newly added quests.

[Skeloton]

Honestly? I was disappointed with the copied races. I knew humans and elves were going to be standards, but they copied Tarus, Mithras, and Galkas too.

I don't know what other races they could have used though. Maybe viera from FF12? The horned kids, whose names escape me, from the Gridania storyline?

Edit: I like that they gave us two sub-races though, and a good amount of variety in character creation.

If they had done both Miqo'te and Viera* then I would of had a meltdown.

*this the name of the race or the character who was the member of you party, didnt get to play XII much before my PS2 exploded lol

[Wynn]

I was disappointed originally. Then I realized I was just going to play the most human race anyway so it didn't matter.

But I still think they should have divorced themselves from any inkling players might have had that this was going to be XI-2 by coming up with entirely new races for Eorzea.

[Soma]

i was very disappointed.

although i do believe they did a good job with the hume males. hume females look blan.

cat girls are smexy and elf women are cool. id like to make a tall drow

but male elfs still look feminine to put it nicely. XD (got sugar in thier shoes)

what happen to the tactics races like Viera, Bangaa and Nu Mou?

i sure hope they add some new ones and let us change if we please.

[SuzakuCMX]

I would love some Viera. Especially if they had Icelandic accents.

[Randis]

i was very disappointed to see the very same races again and the world setting is very similar to FFXI too