Does FF14 needs a new small race?

[Hito-Shura]

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In my opinion, I think there is sense behind my words but one may disagree with me and refute my argument. That is perfectly fine with me.

When it comes to lalafells, I did mention my personal assumption was based on observations made on my server in my original post and never did I say they were globally hated. But the graphs do support my argument when it comes to US and European demographics. I have a feeling that lalafells are more popular in Japan since they fit well in the current moe movement in animes of this generation and the extreme popularity of female idols. I cannot prove it but it is a strong belief of mine that if there was a new cute ''loli'' race sightly bigger than lalafells but still smaller than miqo'te such as the elins, you would see huge amount of change in such a graph. I don't count the female au'ra since despite their small stature, they still look too mature to appeal to the moe fans. I myself would migrate towards such a choice if I could play a character akin to E-Sumi-Yan or Alphinaud which are amougst my favorites characters of this game.

As for au'ras... I fail to see such ''outcry'' about their appearance. Based on my own personal observations(which could be skewed, again, I do not have hard evidences), they seem to be very popular, both genders included. But I would though understand their lack of popularity in Japan since they are far from appealing to the majority or might be seen as a bit unoriginal considering the current races available(males looking like muscular elezens and females looking like smaller hyurs). But let's say for the sake of argumentation that your statement is indeed true and there is truly an outcry... Can you imagine the potential outcry an ''uglier'' race would have? Such a reaction supports my theory that players of FF14 are maybe not ready to accept an ''ugly'' race as they've been playing a game which enforces the physical appeal of a character both in term of race and armor designs. But again, that is but an opinion of mine and it is not my intention to force it upon you.

As for the outcry concerning the uniqueness of the different races... I fear it might be here to stay. A beastly race, althoguh original, would look very out of place in a game with only humanoids since day 1.

[Underdog2204]

As for the outcry concerning the uniqueness of the different races... I fear it might be here to stay. A beastly race, althoguh original, would look very out of place in a game with only humanoids since day 1.

Which is exaclty why one is needed and I don't think something like the Ronso would look out of place in a FF game. I did not say there is an outcry but there certainly was, now probably those people that complained are playing one I mean they certainly seem to be far more popular than that graph shows now lol.

Though you may be right about us being stuck with the rubbish requests people make (I'm totally with you about the Viera) if those of us that don't like it don't talk about it then it is all but certain it will be like that.

[hagare]

the competition to the potato race. THE TOMATOES!

[Corfish]

So for anyone wanting races that are somewhat more unique or exotic, don't get your hopes up >=

They were planning to add Viera at one point, as seen here:

But ultimately decided not to because of their legs. Their legs would've required that they either: A. Massively rework the visuals of leg gear

or B: Just have the non-compatible leg gear show up invisible.

ANY race that has unique features will cause this problem. We even see it in some we have now (weird clipping with Roes or Lalas, lots of armor looking really ugly on Roes etc.)

So while I really want new races that are really unique, it unfortunately likely won't be added because of these technical issues. So if we were to get another "cute" race, it'd likely be kind of a smaller version of something we already have.

[madolyn]

no. having all these hot dog bodied lalafells is enough.