Absolutely More New Races Please

[DamianFatale]

MMO's aren't here to fulfil the needs of whatever specific furry/scalie niche someone has. So I say no thanks to adding new races to the game. Not unless the new race is actually something that would fit into FF.

Viera and Hrothgar aren't even "new". It's literally the Ronso from FFX as hrothgar. They're even named as such on the first where they first appear. Viera have been a part of FF since FFTA, FFTA2, and FF12. Most other races would be more appropriate as an NPC only beast tribe like Bangaa. Qira are a bit too similar to Aura, they just have wings which Square would never add to a race. They can't even deal with ears or tails so the clipping nightmare of wings just never gonna happen. The most I'd expect are the Burmecian but I just don't see a huge demand in players wanting to be a slender beastial rat person in a world with catgirls and bunnygirls.

Personally I'd rather see effort and resources put into the existing races instead. Give us more face options, more customization options, more customization layers (freckles + makeup + tattoo), and make all hats/helms wearable by every race. Butt sliders for all. Muscle sliders for races that don't have them (Who thought Viera didn't deserve muscles WTF). Have the "false nails" thing be part of our actual body model, so I can just pick my nail color and have it effect even the toenails on any boots that show toes. My female Xaela is still wondering why her scales are forced to be the blue color, while the men get to enjoy the much better looking black scales. Why can't I just pick my scale color?

TONS of work to get our own existing races up to par with other games before I start caring about adding someone's personal fursona to the cast of playable races.

Hard disagree. Race are for fulfilling different types of player demographics. That's how you get more players in a game.

[Wildheaven182]

They'll have to go to the dollar store for more animal ear headbands, stickers, and rub on tattoos.
Could take about 4-5 years.

[Kes13a]

I vote for no new races, no new jobs.

if they cannot fix WHAT WE HAVE NOW... why add more? what value is to that? wishing on the off chance they "get it right" the first time? highly improbable.

so, fix the released stuff, then I might go for it. as it stands now, I have zero interest in any new races or jobs to be added to the steaming mess that exists now.

[Khutulun]

Square should put a pin in new races for awhile. Instead they should....
1: Enhance the character editor with new options. More face types and sliders for different parts of the body. For some races their added features should be decoupled from face selection (mostly looking at Au'ra horns with that comment). Making these changes, and creating even more ways for players to look unique from one another, benefits everyone including the devs- who would then have plenty more assets for keeping NPCs looking unique from each other.
2: Gradually add racial variants to existing armor pieces (specifically hats/helmets). This is mostly aimed at Hrothgar and Viera.

The former of these two points would also benefit any new races created after the hypothetical changes. The latter is more "finish the food your plate".

[Avidria]

I'm not opposed to them adding more races, but id rather they both finish viera and hrothgar and expand/update character customization in general first.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I rather the current races get more options added to them and the newest races get their broken promises kept, where are my viera exclusive hairstyles I was promised in SHB?

Female hrothgar suffer from a litany of issues that need addressed. Not to mention the elephant in the room about viera and hroth hats. Hell even miqo hats are often removing their ears.

We have a good variety of races and for 8.0 I want to see an overhaul of the character creator that gives more faces, more lips, more hair more EVERYTHINGGGG.

[grinkdaboy]

i'd rather have more subraces

hyurezen (like hilda)
garlean hyur & elezen
nymian lalafell (maybe give them a tonberry tail)
othardian roegadyn
highlander subrace that gives them eyebrows

dont know what they could do for miqote, aura, viera,or hrothgar though. maybe miqote could have a 3rd subrace that gives them suncat eyes and mooncat fangs?

[Selvokaz]

The more the game moves away from a humanoid or specifically human-like races, the more these issues will occur, so if you want more races, then expect them to be more human-like, like Garlean but your a special snowflake who can use magic, or half Garlean, or Half any race mixed with hyur for that matter to explain away your ability to do X and look like Y, assuming Hrothgar can even reproduce outside their species, as they are the most far from human-like the game has gotten so far in player races, and no I do not want an option for the Mamoolja

[Kacho_Nacho]

The existing races need to be completed before any new races are introduced. It's awful that hrothgar and viera have remained half done for years now.

They should have been finished while FFXIV was undergoing its the graphics overhaul. Obviously, they were not.

At this point, I feel it's highly unlikely Square Enix is willing to put in the effort to required to add a new race.

[Rolder50]

I'd rather have more character creation options on the existing races. Especially since any new ones we get are likely to be half baked like Hrothgar and Viera