Hybrid race

[TheGrimace]

Head glamours like "artificial elezen ears," and "make-shift au ra horns," sound like the best option to me. Give additional headgear options without having to totally revamp the character customization... yet.

[SigmaOZ]

I want Hyur x Miqo'te for taller kitten and tailed humans ♥♥♥.

[Edax]

Lalafell+Miqo'te and Lalafell+Au Ra would be cute AF

Or it could be a horrifying abomination.

[RVallant]

I'd just want to start a moogle WoL. >_>

[Alacran]

I only have interest in Half Elezen option. Other races are already half/ and human, so further devolution would only dilute those already sparse features, to say nothing of the issue with certain races not being compatible from a biological standpoint.

Half Elezen (a race with already established precedence) have the best chance to be implemented imo. Not only would it be most cost effective asset wise, but also give the player base the Elven option many feel they were cheated out of due to reuse of Elvaan assets from FFXI.

SE has often been asked about "fixing" Elezen proportions but claimed that they felt sticking to to their design choice was in favor due to already established player fan base devotees. Given this fact, fans of more reasonably proportioned addition to Elezen as a sub race, much like WoW has done with allied races.

Hyur base, Elezen ears, a mix of Elezen/ Hyur animations picked to make the race unique, and done.

No need for remodeling equipment assets or further work. As an added plus, all previously added hair options would be there with all base options for Elezen & Hyur, i can only see this as a win.

[Alacran]

Or it could be a horrifying abomination.

Awesome! The Miqo'te Hroth mix i never wanted... Thanks!!!

[Rongway]

It's really easy to create a hybrid NPC...you only need to make sure one specific combination of features works together.

Allowing hybrid PCs would require making sure all possible combinations work, and they don't even want to try to modularize current existing traits with few options, like decoupling auri horns from auri faces...so don't expect mixed race PCs any time ever.

[lolicon09]

Or it could be a horrifying abomination.

Or the cutest, most adorable, thing ever conceived

[reivaxe]

Not in this game.

But much like the genders I think "maybe next game?".

Let be real here, this game is old af and it's CC is restrictive even for a game of it's era. There have been such advances in CC since then that if races for the next MMO they make is mostly "Human+animal bits" like this one is then they could easily make a few crossbreeds playable.

[TheGrimace]

It is depressing to think that this game is nearly ten years old. Yes, ARR happened, but it was still built off the back of 1.0 and its ~2010 Crystal Tools development kit. They do a goddamn good job keeping things up to date, but there's only so much they can do as the skeleton of the game ages. "Spaghetti code" and all that, but it's true that it's an uphill fight to build on the game's original coding.