Idea for a new race

[Luxia7]

I'm sure this has been mentioned before and I understand it's challenging to bring in a new race. However, I really wish there was a dog-themed race. We have a cat, lion/tiger, bunny even, but no dog-based race. As a big dog lover, I wish I could express this through my character.

[Enkidoh]

There is already the wolf-headed lupin race found in Othard/the Far East, a few npcs of which show up during Stormblood's main scenario (and as enemies too), which there were many requests by players to have them added as a playable race, but SE instead went with adding the hrothgar for whatever reason.

Unfortunately SE have stated that there will be no more new playable races added - hrothgar and viera being the last, so alas I do not see them being added I'm sorry to say.

[aveyond-dreams]

I think, if FFXIV is to have a 10-year plan ahead of it, that it would be unreasonable for there to be no more new races. I support the addition of a wolf-like race so long as they retain a head shape that will support already available in-game hairs and helmets. Their faces can have muzzles and other things that would be expected of the race, but it is the shape of their craniums from where most of Hrothgar's issues spring. They must endeavor to not repeat such a mistake again.

[RyuDragnier]

You would think it's unreasonable...but considering GW2 has been going on for about a decade as well, and has never added the Tengu as a playable race despite them having the assets and were originally planned to be playable until the last minute, it's more likely than you think. People have asked in that game for a decade to make the Tengu playable, but have basically gotten nothing...despite again, all the assets being there, the Tengu are in pretty much every expansion and almost every region of the world thus far, etc etc. I don't think it'd be much different here, even if they DID have the assets for it.

[Kesey]

I will not settle for less than a rat race. Give us Burmecians!

[RyuDragnier]

I will not settle for less than a rat race. Give us Burmecians!

What's that, you want the Burmecians to appear in the next expansion as non-playable NPCs and as the new tribe quest givers, we have you covered! While that was a slight joke, I would BEG for Burmecians and Cleyra to appear in our next expansion, just because I always did like them and Freya in FF9...it's just a shame she got such little character development. Which btw, is one of my many complaints about FF9.

[Cilia]

... I always did like [the Burmecians] and Freya in FF9...it's just a shame she got such little character development. Which btw, is one of my many complaints about FF9.

IX is a good game, but half the party's character development being heavily truncated holds it back from being great. (And I say that with a little generosity; Zidane, Vivi, and Garnet / Dagger get the lion's share of the screentime and character development, but I feel Steiner's around long enough for a significant amount of character focus compared to Freya, Quina, Eiko, and Amarant.)

On topic, if they keep using palette swaps of older gear I don't see why they couldn't add a new race? Though the ever expanding backlog of unique modeled gear (e.g. raid stuff) still means there's a big backlog, and trying to branch out from the norm makes that rather difficult as we saw with the Viera and Hrothgar.

[KenaiChoppa]

If there really are 10 years more of FF XIV I really think it is not too crazy to think that they will add more races.

As other users have said, there are "wolf" races, and are really cool. I would like to have them playable, but I think that if they are going to create a new playable race it would be something entirely new.

Time will tell

[Guhthaerz]

Give us bangaas already Squeenix, you cowards