Au Ra character creation pictures from Nico Nico!

[Elim]

Even after looking at those pictures I'm having a hard time figuring out their heights. Does anyone know them yet? Either way, if the males are super tall I'll just play a female one.

[Duelle]

Okay, that's it. I demand that SE reimplement path companions. Mine has to look like this.

My point wasn't that beastial races will drive people away but such a race is a high risk to resources. I don't expect SE to be taking risks at the moment. 1.0 isn't that long ago. They are going to play it safe until they feel comfortable that what they have is secure enough to play with risk. Making a new race that in the end aren't played by many people isn't going to be a good investment and in the end games are products for businesses. They need to produce products people actually are going to use.

As much as I panned 1.0 for being the weird thing that it was, aesthetics don't have much of anything to do with why the risks taken with 1.0 caused it to flop (among other things, like that game being horribly incomplete). The point of races is that there's supposed to be some sort of diversity. The current 5 races cover the basics (and even then miqo'te have rubbed people the wrong way due to their being more human-like than FFXI's mithra).

As pretty as they are, Au ra are really just normal-sized humans with cosplay parts glued on to their bodies with the option of full body paint. It's not gonna sink the game in any way, but it displays a limit self-imposed by the developers.

To be honest the other reason is probably that creating a new race that matches what we see in the concept art probably would have taken a lot more work than the Au Ra did. Those clawed hands, for example, would take a lot more customisation of current armour designs to accommodate for.

The clawed hands would simply mean certain gloves wouldn't fully cover their hands (sort of how trolls in WoW have bare feet regardless of footwear; a rule that also applies to tauren, draenei and pandaren).

[Renik]

It's not healing them, it's being the healer.

Au Ra white mage with a black/dark origin.... that's what isn't settling well.

Well if auri are based on jp demos, there's a wide range of possibilities, from spiritual beings aligned to light, to the demon kings a la Satan, Beelzebub, etc...

[Felis]

Even after looking at those pictures I'm having a hard time figuring out their heights. Does anyone know them yet? Either way, if the males are super tall I'll just play a female one.

Au Ra Heights

[Height (woman): MAX158.5cm MIN147.0cm]
MAX: 5'2.4'' -> MIN 4'9.8''

[height (man): MAX: 217.0cm MIN? ? ? ]
MAX: 7' 1.4''

Height of current Races:


Source for Au Ra Height: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/44443304.html
Source for Current Race Height: http://harmonywins.tumblr.com/post/57058787343/final-fantasy-xiv-races-height-chart

Size of male Au Ra is between Elezen and Roegadyn.

[Elim]

Size of male Au Ra is between Elezen and Roegadyn.

Thank you very much for the info!

So it looks like I'm playing a female one then.

[Kathryn]

Monday cannot come fast enough ; ;

[Mugiawara]

Monday cannot come fast enough ; ;

3.0 can't. I'ma just play around the CC and get sad of my mundane cat life. >_>;
Also, Male Miqote are short as hell. oo;

[Selli]

Also, Male Miqote are short as hell. oo;

As a woman who is 5'8" irl. I will graciously accept this as a compliment. XD

In all seriousness, yeah, Maleqo'tes are pretty dang short compared to the other male races (aside from Lalas).

I think the Lala heights are pretty crazy. 2'10" to 3'2". I thought they were 3'0" to 4'0" as those that is the average height of a real little person. So Lalas are absolutely teeny tiny.

[LordHadi]

Any idea tall the race's male can be? Hope not too tall

[Evergrey]

Any idea tall the race's male can be? Hope not too tall

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2924746