Suggestion: Playable Bird Race

[RoseBnargin]

I am kinda still waiting for the Viera.

[Confidence_Trick]

At the risk of parroting what others have said adding a new race without cawse might be fowl play at this point.

[Serilda]

While I'm not against it in principle, the existing race options are already too much for the team when it's taking actual years to design and implement new gear pieces and they're arbitrarily locking things away from half the playerbase to cut corners on modelling. The tail issues with Au Ra and Miqo'te are still outstanding too. Another playable race with a body shape that drastically differs from the existing models would just condemn us to even more problems.

[Misutoraru]

no for more animal ear/tail/wings stick on Hyru
but yes for Brest type looking playable race
I know it is more a dream, since I doubt SE would remodel all the equipment for 1 race that vastly different from other (not talking about Roe or Potato different)
I keep my hope

[NaesakiAshwell]

no for more animal ear/tail/wings stick on Hyru
but yes for Brest type looking playable race
I know it is more a dream, since I doubt SE would remodel all the equipment for 1 race that vastly different from other (not talking about Roe or Potato different)
I keep my hope

I might be remembering this wrong but wasn't like the original design for the Au'Ra a lot more beastly/lizard-like in appearance but when they showed it to the Japanese fanbase they had an absolutely massive rage fit over it and thus we ended up with tall elezen males with horns/tails/scales and female hyurs with horns/tail/scale.

[Revanslave]

I might be remembering this wrong but wasn't like the original design for the Au'Ra a lot more beastly/lizard-like in appearance but when they showed it to the Japanese fanbase they had an absolutely massive rage fit over it and thus we ended up with tall elezen males with horns/tails/scales and female hyurs with horns/tail/scale.

Were they similar to the Bangaa? I thought they would be a cool race

[Aquaslash]

It is entirely because of the Japanese fanbase that we can't have more feral or beastly races. They only like cutesy things which is why the Au ra are the complete disaster that they are

[Serilda]

It is entirely because of the Japanese fanbase that we can't have more feral or beastly races. They only like cutesy things which is why the Au ra are the complete disaster that they are

Though I note that they are also more popular on EU and NA servers than the least conventionally pretty alternatives, or at least they were last time I checked. Au Ra have been a success.

[DamianFatale]

It is entirely because of the Japanese fanbase that we can't have more feral or beastly races. They only like cutesy things which is why the Au ra are the complete disaster that they are

I find this so irritating. Why can't both regions get what they want? Nobody said that Japan had to play as the original Au ra.

[Serilda]

I find this so irritating. Why can't both regions get what they want? Nobody said that Japan had to play as the original Au ra.

Because that would require twice as much work as developing one race and refitting all of the existing and future gear for new models. Which is fine, but not something they're going to agree to on a whim without thinking about the impact it would have on the expansion and all future upgrades.

The myth about only Japanese people liking cute, tiny girls with scales is blown apart by the actual popularity of the race in the west. Scapegoating Japan while being one of the modern Au Ra yourself is a bit confusing.