Quote Originally Posted by Lusarae View Post
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.