VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[myahele]

seeing this, I wonder how many people started playing the game as viera or hrothgar, unaware of the restrictions, and ended up getting frustrated.

A friend of mine started out as a highlander but bought the game after 1 week. Even though I warned him about the restrictions, he created a hrothgar. After witnessing the disregard for the race, he ended up using a fantasia to become an Au'ra. He says that if SE stops this stupidity, he goes back to hrothgar, as he finds all races in the game "human with pet ears"

It's quite deceptive. The cgi version has claws and comes in a color that Hrothgar don't have in the CC

[Bergfinn]

seeing this, I wonder how many people started playing the game as viera or hrothgar, unaware of the restrictions, and ended up getting frustrated.

A friend of mine started out as a highlander but bought the game after 1 week. Even though I warned him about the restrictions, he created a hrothgar. After witnessing the disregard for the race, he ended up using a fantasia to become an Au'ra. He says that if SE stops this stupidity, he goes back to hrothgar, as he finds all races in the game "human with pet ears"

Tbh one thing that kept me away from FFXIV for so long was the lack of a proper non human race. It baffles me when people talks about how "this game is full of furries", when we barely have any due only having a single beast like race that barely anyone plays due being half made.

[RyuDragnier]

Tbh one thing that kept me away from FFXIV for so long was the lack of a proper non human race. It baffles me when people talks about how "this game is full of furries", when we barely have any due only having a single beast like race that barely anyone plays due being half made.

They think Miqote qualifies as furry...no, that's nekomimi, which is anime waifu stuff.

[Denji]

Tbh one thing that kept me away from FFXIV for so long was the lack of a proper non human race. It baffles me when people talks about how "this game is full of furries", when we barely have any due only having a single beast like race that barely anyone plays due being half made.

wow had more furries on day 1 lmfao; although really only one was a playable race but, still.

[Adamantini]

Tbh one thing that kept me away from FFXIV for so long was the lack of a proper non human race. It baffles me when people talks about how "this game is full of furries", when we barely have any due only having a single beast like race that barely anyone plays due being half made.

to be honest, i love bestial races. The further from human, the better for me. But in FFXIV we don't have the option of being anything but a human with animal ears.
Even though the hrothgar is the only option, the fact that he has feet, is hunchbacked, and his emotes demonstrate that they are silly and docile creatures, makes me stay away from the race. I chose Viera for the lore of them being recluses, a more tribal/savage population...

These days I saw on twitter an art of an au'ra with dragon paws. It made me so much wish they were like that.

[RyuDragnier]

to be honest, i love bestial races. The further from human, the better for me. But in FFXIV we don't have the option of being anything but a human with animal ears.
Even though the hrothgar is the only option, the fact that he has feet, is hunchbacked, and his emotes demonstrate that they are silly and docile creatures, makes me stay away from the race. I chose Viera for the lore of them being recluses, a more tribal/savage population...

These days I saw on twitter an art of an au'ra with dragon paws. It made me so much wish they were like that.

I still believe the hunchback would be better if it was...you know, demonstrated more. Like if /doze while on a bed had them curl up like a cat or something. You know, give explanation for why they have the hunchback, show why they should have it.

[Raskbuck]

Tbh one thing that kept me away from FFXIV for so long was the lack of a proper non human race. It baffles me when people talks about how "this game is full of furries", when we barely have any due only having a single beast like race that barely anyone plays due being half made.

WoW is a lot more furry than FFXIV, and yet I've seen some brilliant minds argue online that Tauren and Worgen are not furries because they are based on "mythological creatures", lol.

The biggest problem FFXIV had for me in terms of customization, is that every race before Hrothgar was just Humans with added features. Tall human, small human, human with pointy ears, human with cat/bunny ears, bulky human, and so on. I consider Hrothgar the only race to break that mold, but everything in the game is so standardized, they couldn't implement it properly without leaving some critical features out.

FFXIV's competitors really blow the game out of the water in terms of implementing anthro/bestial races.

[Denji]

WoW is a lot more furry than FFXIV, and yet I've seen some brilliant minds argue online that Tauren and Worgen are not furries because they are based on "mythological creatures", lol.

The biggest problem FFXIV had for me in terms of race, is that every race before Hrothgar was just Humans with added features. Tall human, small human, human with pointy ears, human with cat/bunny ears, bulky human, and so on. I consider Hrothgar the only race to break that mold, but everything in the game is so standardized, they couldn't implement it properly without leveling some critical features out.

FFXIV's competitors really blow the game out of the water in terms of implementing anthro/bestial races.

really ffxiv races before hrothgar/viera was just "lalafels and the rest square doesn't care about" but now that hroths/viera exist those other races forget what it's like to be, well, forgotten about now that they have their own fellow players to look down upon.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

WoW is a lot more furry than FFXIV, and yet I've seen some brilliant minds argue online that Tauren and Worgen are not furries because they are based on "mythological creatures", lol.

That nonsense drives me insane....
If FFXIV had playabe Minotaur and Werewolf characters it would be called a Furry game. WoW has Minotaurs, Werewolves, Pandas, Fennec Foxes and now Were-Dragons, and its still not a furry game.
FFXIV has Nekos, Bunny People, and now a BiPedal Lion Race...and WE get called the Furry game.

Makes no sense.

[Kolsykol]

WoW is a lot more furry than FFXIV,

There has never been a more true in the history of true lol, it's so funny to see people call FFXIV a '' furry game ''...