A wish for new Races

[Delmontyb]

While I'll be the first to say that SE is working on the right priorities at the moment, I figured I'd put this idea out there to see what people thought of new races being added into the game later down the line. And what races from the Final Fantasy Multi-verse would you like to see brought into the world of FFXIV.

Now, I know many people, like myself get attached to their character and the idea of getting rid of them might not be something we would want to do, and since we start and have only one character slot, adding in new races might make us feel left out of options later down the line, but that's not the idea behind this topic.

So with that said, I would love to see some of the races from Ivalice make it into the game world:
Bangaa, Viera would be my top pics.

How about you, what races from other FF games (or other games, we don't have to limit it) would you like to see in the game world? Ether as playable, or just as NPCs... After all this is a big world we are talking about and we have only seen a very small part of it.

[Zahak]

I vote for SE to make the XIV beastmen races, Sahagin, Kobold, Amalj'aa, Goblin, Ixal, Sylph, and Qiqirn. Does anyone else think that this would be really dynamic or that it would just ruin the atmosphere of the game. It's not like the beastmen are the root of evil; they are just protecting their own way of life.

I know it will never happen but it would be really awesome to play as a Amalj'aa. A fully customizable one!

[Delmontyb]

I vote for SE to make the XIV beastmen races, Sahagin, Kobold, Amalj'aa, Goblin, Ixal, Sylph, and Qiqirn. Does anyone else think that this would be really dynamic or that it would just ruin the atmosphere of the game. It's not like the beastmen are the root of evil; they are just protecting their own way of life.

I know it will never happen but it would be really awesome to play as a Amalj'aa. A fully customizable one!

I like the way you think, and while I'm not opposed to the idea, I think you pointed out one of the bigger issues that worries you too. If it would break the atmosphere. I guess we would have to see how they implemented it into the game... Still, over all an interesting idea.

[Zahak]

I guess beastmen wouldn't have Grand Companies of Eorzea either :P

[Enkei]

I would actually like to be a Djinn beast like Ifrit. My god, or should I say, "by the twelve" I love ifrit. Favorite summon, favorite element, and I have a thing for horns.

[Arcell]

Beastmen and Primals would 100% most certainly not work for XIV simply because of their involvement in the story. The only way it could possibly work is if they're a separate "faction" and there's faction-based PvP, and they can't work with adventurers from the 3 main cities. They are so radically opposed to the main 3 nations that it wouldn't even make sense.

[Enkei]

Hey I can dream can't I?

[RemnantWolf]

Beastmen and Primals would 100% most certainly not work for XIV simply because of their involvement in the story. The only way it could possibly work is if they're a separate "faction" and there's faction-based PvP, and they can't work with adventurers from the 3 main cities. They are so radically opposed to the main 3 nations that it wouldn't even make sense.

That is not entirely true. While their culture is truly against the cities and the races in them but that doesn't mean that each individual is. In the Gridania story I helped the Sylphs with an empire invasion and I believe that I read somewhere that the goblins once traded with the three cities before packing up and disappearing.
It is not entirely impossible that a goblin or sylph would defect to a city out of differing beliefs or fear of death from their own society.

[Delmontyb]

Hey I can dream can't I?

Nothing wrong with dreaming, and if you are, why not dream big.

[Zenaku]

It be nice if SE add two new race along side with the missing race male and female for the ps3 release it would give more life to FFXIV. Right now it's not that hard to have new race just say they came from a new land or someshit lol