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(12-22-2014, 11:31 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: Also in response to posting a few comments and reviews from across the internet. Pretty much have to agree with what Kage said, people who are unhappy are much more vocal than people who are not. Notice how only the first few pages of this thread had anything positive to say about the race and than the last 15 or so pages have been people arguing and being negative? Would you dare to try and say that the handful of people in this thread responding speak for the entirety of the RPC or the FFXIV community as a whole?This is a really poor argument.
Look, most every other feature of the expansion is pretty much getting universal praise wherever you look. It's only the Au Ra who are getting much in the way of criticism, and that says something. Not only that, it's in such sheer volume that it is pretty much impossible to avoid.
The official forums are going to be chock-full of negativity, yes, but this isn't necessarily the case for the entire rest of the Internet.
(12-22-2014, 11:40 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: While I agree, they are cute, I don't know if a lot of other people would find them cute. Neither of those races were made for Japanese audiences in mind. The Japanese concept of cuteness is different. I don't want to generalize too much because I don't live in their culture. But going off of all their forms of entertainment that I have gotten to interact with, beauty plays a very important role. The Western idea of beauty can often times be much more rugged, even for females.I can assure you that the standard for cuteness is a human thing, not a Japanese thing. What's different is one's tolerance for saccharine cuteness (something made obvious just by looking at Western viewers complaining about cute designs being unmanly etc.), and whether or not you place any value on the concept of cuteness. But generally speaking, most people will be able to agree on whether or not something qualifies as 'cute' or 'adorable'.
Of course, I can then argue that we are already extremely well-served on that front with the existing races and that they should endeavor to try to fill NEW niches with brand new races. I mean, if the 'new race' could easily have been created simply by adding more facial and skin texture options to an existing race, well, quite frankly that reflects very poorly on the breadth of their character creation.
(12-22-2014, 11:31 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote: People tend to be far less critical of what Male characters look like in video games because it's incredibly difficult to go wrong with them. If male characters almost all look the same, or fit into certain stereotypes or follow certain societal standards nobody really gives a shit. If the same thing happens with Female character models people lose their freaking minds over it.This is because there is a ubiquitous trend to make the male characters capable and "badass" while the females are made to be doted on and fawned over.
Quite frankly, it's condescending and super-irritating to be relegated to that kind of role again and again and again and again, so yeah, people (women mostly) WILL lose their shit over it, because it's blatantly and unequivocally sexist.