New Races

[Shougun]

Bit hypocritical coming from someone playing a viera.

Races are content, and they can be very meaningful to people, the new races and customizations that came out recently in WoW and are scheduled for ShL are some of the most positively received things in the game. They're a part of cosmetics- and anyone who thinks cosmetics isn't something that matters to players is utterly ignorant to what gamers want.

That said- we finally did get our beast race, the hrothgar, after people asked for so long for something different from human looking races- yet the census shows basically nobody is playing it. Considering the amount of work it takes to make races, SE is going to want them to get good use and I imagine they're looking at the amount of work it will take to make female hrothgar, realizing it will be almost completely unused and aren't overly eager to allocate resources towards that. It's unfortunate- but the community tells SE a lot by our behaviour.

Again still think that's the wrong way to look at beast race. Look at beast race more like ultimate. It's good for the few that do it, they've no other content like it if you removed it. Beast race, across ALL mmos, is always one of the less popular ones compared to classic human shapes, super model shapes, etc (although WoW has a number of popular not stereotypically pretty / standard races, substantial population if you add them together by groups of pretty/standard vs not). Still I think there is a unique value in offering something new over offering a different shade of the same thing you're already offering. Does that mean to stop adding shades because it's popular? No of course not, but if you've no ultimate content then perhaps maybe you should have it. Your 8th variation of chocolate might be more popular than your red bean ice cream but that doesn't mean there is no argument to be had in the value of having some unique variety options for those who are looking for it.

I'm sure they knew Hrothgar wasn't going to be as popular as Viera, they've Roe to look at for estimate numbers- Hrothgar about match that anyways (and Roe has two genders and less fantasia / barber issues even, if you fixed that then Hrothgar might be more popular).