Absolutely More New Races Please

[Delis]

Not sure they will adding any more in. When we got Viera and Hrothgar it was said that these were going to be the last races. They wanted to give players a race they have been asking for which was Viera and a beast like race. They couldn't decide which one to do since both were being heavily asked for and they know they couldn't get both races done in time for 5.0 so they compromised and did one as the female and one as the male. The player base threw a temper tantrum, SE caved and added the missing genders. But who knows they may go back on that and add more down the road, but I agree with a few other posters above. I much rather see them rework and add more options for the current races before adding another race.

[Zolvolt]

Yoshi P said he's open to new races if we desire them.

I for one am waiting for our FFIX burmecian rat people overlords

[Teno]

No thanks, there's very little customization for so many races already. Better work on the existing ones, especially if it's to release the last ones..

[Ayalu]

I would say first finish the races that need it and rework/update/expand the Character Creator for the existing Races.

When all that is done they can always add a Race later....or they give us a new sub-types for Races.
Which wouldnt surprise me as it could be use for marketing and its less work.

[Selvokaz]

i want to play as a void sent

[DamianFatale]

Not sure they will adding any more in. When we got Viera and Hrothgar it was said that these were going to be the last races. They wanted to give players a race they have been asking for which was Viera and a beast like race. They couldn't decide which one to do since both were being heavily asked for and they know they couldn't get both races done in time for 5.0 so they compromised and did one as the female and one as the male. The player base threw a temper tantrum, SE caved and added the missing genders. But who knows they may go back on that and add more down the road, but I agree with a few other posters above. I much rather see them rework and add more options for the current races before adding another race.

Yoshi P confirmed that it isn't the last afterall. Doesn't mean it will be soon though.

[Khryseis_Astra]

They should just add the rejected au ra concepts as another race.

Ooo! Give me the one top left on the dark gray, with that hairstyle too! Love the dragon wings in place of horns!

I’ve always liked the idea of adding more clans to the existing races for more variety in character creator… that one would take care of Au Ra! Give us more clans, and while they’re at it, fix Hrothgar & Viera headgear.

[KisaiTenshi]

Every single MMO that adds races overtime is not ruined for it. In fact, they are often better for the additions.

Most MMO's class-lock a race and don't have to design 1000 pieces of gear for it.

The easiest path to add "new races" is in fact to repurpose some existing ones (Loporitts, Moogles, etc) that already have the ability to use all the weapons, and just don't give the players any option to customize.

So if you really really really want to play a loporitt, you get to tint the fur and change the eye color, but you only have 6 clothing gear choices, and they all reflect the job role. The "humanoid" gear won't fit them. If you want to play a moogle (Which perpetually flies, I'll add) there is no gear at all, they only have hats representing their job role when they don't have a weapon out (see King Moggle Mog.)

I know some people would want to play the Namazu or the Lupin, but same as the Loporitts, they could change the color of the eyes and the fur/skin but there's very limited gear that they can wear.

This is the only way to add races without having to add 1000 pieces of unique gear to the game per race. If it's humanoid-enough, you can pretty much find a way to make a race wear the existing Miqo'te-AuRa-Hyur gear.

As for, is there enough support to get any of these races playable? Probably not. It might be worth investigating as an April Fools joke to be able to have transformation pots that turn your character into one of the beast tribe races for an hour, and see how well people accept it, but I think other than the Loporitts (being close enough to lalafell's in size,) there's not really that much actual interest in having any of the beast tribes as races you could actually create and start the game with. I mention the Loporitts in this case because their entire reason for being is undone by the end of endwalker, so it actually would make sense to start seeing them everywhere. Where as the Moogles or the Namazu pretty much exist as joke tribes to antagonize the player.

[Ayalu]

I mean moogles are just a Final Fantasy iconic Race.
But if they would like to add them as player race I would assume they introduced the Ivalice version of them as there they have been a normal also playable race at times and is a bit more humanoid.

[ConantSivrha]

As things stand now, I think the addition of more races would be counterproductive.

Many pieces of headgear don’t display on viera and hrothgar character models. Hrothgar hairstyles are extremely restricted—especially female hrothgar, who have five hairstyles per face, including two pairs of almost identical variants. Gear design has taken 10 steps backwards in the way it accounts for racial traits (or, nowadays, doesn’t account for racial traits), even for old races. Hats and helmets used to accommodate non-human ears with holes or pockets for those ears, but newer hats and helmets just remove non-human ears. And after many years of tails being left to clip through gear, we’re starting to get gear that simply removes them, which is even worse.

The races we already have aren’t being handled properly, with newer races having some of the most glaring issues. I’d like to see this trend reversed before we get any new races, at least, so those new races won’t come out horribly bungled.