Gender locked race?

[QuietGlasses]

These are different ears.

[Wolfyboy]

I'm sorry they are the same ears just different coloration even rewatched trailer they stay the same ears throughout so no we haven't seen any other ears on a 3d model yet

I re-watched the trailer and it does look like three different ear styles. The girl with the black hair has very tame looking ears, the pink and white hair looks the same, well the blonde has a lot of fur inside her ears compared to the other three.

[grinkdaboy]

probably not. every design decision inspired by FF11 served to bring the game down. FF11 is like the kiss of death and why 1.0 failed.

[Alesone]

They definitely showed us 3 of the 4 ears.



1: has a upward and than fanned out tuft at the top, but a small tuft at the bottom.
2: Has a more downward curling tuft at the top, and long tufts along the bottom up to the middle of the ear.
4: No tufts at all, blackened tips.

This lines up with the numbers on the concept art for ears shown here:

[RukiaFae]

They all look so similar. Even though the other races don't have many options they still can look really different. The Au'ra faces all look every different

[Duskane]

The ears are different bit hard to tell at a quick glance but they are definitely different

[MrKimper]

Yeah the ears are definitely different.

[Alesone]

I threw together some more screencaps in case it still wasn't the most clear. Definitely 3 different types, there's a difference to their overall shapes too, not just the tufts. I also suspect given the concept art that we'll be able to adjust the angle of the ears somewhat, likely in place of ear length like Lalafell/elezen have.

[artyport]

I’m pretty sure the ears will be like miqos in that they change with hair styles.

[Alesone]

I’m pretty sure the ears will be like miqos in that they change with hair styles.

Unlikely, actually. Most races have roughly the same number of "areas" they can customize. Elezen/lalafell can pick ear types and ear sizes. Au Ra and Miqo'te can pick tails and tail lengths. Hyur and Roegadyn have neither, and it's why they have muscle tone sliders instead. Viera have no tails to customize, and have been shown with 4 distinct ears in concept art labelled separately from the hairstyles. As a result, it's safe to assume that their additional customization option will be ear style, with either an ear size selection, or what I suspect will be an ear angle selection, since we have seen concept art for the same ear styles but at different angles.