Quote Originally Posted by Tsiron View Post
They've already said male Viera and (eventually) female Hrothgar will mark the end of their adding any more races to the game, so it got me thinking how they could expand upon existing ones without a massive overhaul of their whole character creation system, welcome as that would be. So... how about being able to pick animations?

I've seen countless people mention they prefer the aesthetic but not the idles/emotes (or the other way around) of one race or the other, and they're clearly set up to be able to share animations, unless the devs have to manually tweak every combat animation or unlockable emote, which I doubt?

Naturally, there's issues they'd need to address, for cases such as switching to a tailless race's animation set as a Miqo'te or Au Ra, or male Roegadyn and Hrothgar probably not being compatible with anyone else's due to their bulk, but all in all I think something like accounting for tail movement where there's none or etc. would be far less work than creating new animations (or an entire race...) from scratch, right?

What do you all think?
The last fax machine that they hotwired together for this engine would probably shortcircuit and we'd be all stuck together with Hyur /Laugh for all animations. Then we'd get looped in a circle of "It's difficult, but we are working on it" and other copy paste Japanese business PR answers that surmount to "No, you aren't getting it."? At least Japan finally got rid of floppy disks so there's hope in like... 50 years? That they advance to the modern era with technology.