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  1. #31
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    Veto Bahamut
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
    I read the title as "swap ears with tails"


    and LOL'd

    ..and drew it...

    lolllllll well done
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  2. #32
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    No one who has said no to this has bothered to explain why...
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  3. #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by ToxicFox View Post
    No one who has said no to this has bothered to explain why...
    I'll bite.

    Many people don't realize that Customization and Creative Vision are mutually exclusive and are on the opposite ends of a spectrum. (just as Liberty and Equality are).

    Final Fantasy has traditionally been a game of Creative Vision. It is why we have memorable characters throughout the series like Cecil, Terra, Cloud, Aerith, etc.. If players were given the opportunity to design their own party members from scratch, we would talk about them as much as we discuss the personality of Skyrim or Dark Souls main characters.

    Now MMO games require Customization for your main characters. There's simply no realistic way to create a hundred thousand characters each with unique storylines.. So instead, the Devs achieve Creative Vision via a cohesive world inhabited by Races - each with distinct cultures, features, etc. The distinction of the races adds flavor to the world, and it give players a foundation from which to build their own characters.

    Mi'qote are a race of cat-people. Adding bunny, fox, hippo elephant or other animal ears (or tails) to them means that they lose all distinction as race. The personality foundation that their current design has endowed them with would evaporate completely if they became a mere hodgepodge of animal ears and tails.

    Devoid of any standard look, what the Mi'qote become? Morphlings?? Why can they only change ears and tails and not have claws, wings, horns or centipede legs? What of all the NPCs in the game? Are they part of a lost Mi'qote race or do the devs have to redesign all Mi'qote NPCs in the game to re-establish a real race again?

    What room is there for new races when by a Viera, Padjal, Nou Mu, or Burmicians could just as easily be a Morph'qote variation?

    There are many implications and trade-offs for going down this path, and most of them are very problematic from a designer's perspective.

    I'd say if you want fox-people in the game, bring it up to the devs and see. But if they don't end up going that way, try to understand that they likely have a large and far-reaching vision for the game and your idea may not have worked for it. If it's a deal-breaker, then it might be best to find something that better suits you.

    But if not, why not go along for the ride?

    After all, how many of our favorite experiences in life were crafted by ourselves? And how many times have we gotten exactly what we asked for and found out that it wasn't as great as we thought it would be?
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    Last edited by Zantetsuken; 07-21-2012 at 12:28 AM.

  4. #34
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    I won't quote you to save space.

    So basically you don't want the race options because you feel it would harm the lore of miqo'te however with the moon crashing down and destroying everything the devs can do basically whatever they want and have it make sense. Well I don't think I can change your mind on protecting the miqo'te lore no matter what I do nor will I really try to. There was as stated in the main post a suggestion of making the new race they plan to add be this mix and match race.

    The reason I want the ears and tail to be swappable is to allow people to play as whatever they want to. This is finale fantasy after all and we should be able to play our fantasy as we wish. If a few people don't like it then they can cry in a corner. Its better to give freedom to the players to be whatever they want then to restrict them to a handful of races because of a stupid reason like not being able to have strong enough lore tied to them. Fact is you can make the lore work with everything if you took a little bit to think about it. If we do get this race in the game then we can make a lot of fans happy as they can play as a bunny, wolf, fox, and so on.

    You suggested requesting a fox race if I wanted to play as a fox. Yes I want to play as a fox however I don't think other people should get denied the race they want just to make a race that is going to be almost the same as the miqo'te. There are people who would like to play as bunnies or wolves which the same basic model will work for them without issues. Then SE can add a race that is totally different if they want to and we can end up with a lot more options to make our characters our own. I think being able to say this is my char and it looks exactly how I wanted it to is more important then saying my char was a "insert race here" with "insert color hair here"
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