Garlean Playable Race (?)

[Theodric]

They're boring and bring nothing new or exciting to the list of options, adding them as a playable race would be waste of time and resources.

That's completely subjective. A lot of people, myself included, have been asking for a tall and classically attractive playable race with no other features such as horns, scales or a tail for quite some time now. Garlean Purebloods if given a unique model true to their lore could provide that.

After all, the most popular playable races across multiple MMO's are generally either the equivalent of humans or some form of elf. That'd probably be the same case here in FFXIV if the proportions and design choices behind some of the character models were more palatable to mainstream tastes/conventional beauty standards.

As for it being a waste of time and resources? That's also subjective - personally I wouldn't agree with that. Nor would they necessarily need to be added right away.

The game's set to be supported for at least another ten years of development.

[Jandor]

That's completely subjective. A lot of people, myself included, have been asking for a tall and classically attractive playable race with no other features such as horns, scales or a tail for quite some time now. Garlean Purebloods if given a unique model true to their lore could provide that.

After all, the most popular playable races across multiple MMO's are generally either the equivalent of humans or some form of elf. That'd probably be the same case here in FFXIV if the proportions and design choices behind some of the character models were more palatable to mainstream tastes/conventional beauty standards.

As for it being a waste of time and resources? That's also subjective - personally I wouldn't agree with that. Nor would they necessarily need to be added right away.

The game's set to be supported for at least another ten years of development.

I want a cohesive setting and a main story that makes sense, you want a classically handsome tall dude. We can both have what we want by spending the time and effort that adding the Garleans would require on instead expanding customization options for the existing playable races.

You do realise that's what many people say about Viera? I mean there's existing playable races I consider to be boring and a waste of time and resources, but then I realise that's down to my personal tastes and not really a compelling reason not to add something.

To be fair, they're probably right about Viera, I like my Viera but I never asked for them and would have been fine carrying on as a cat had they not been added.

I've said before, even in this thread, that I don't think they were handled particularly well, but I also don't think that's a very compelling reason to make the same mistake again. The work required to integrate playable Garleans into the setting and story is greater than the Viera required, and IMO simply too great to be worth it.