(04-29-2015, 01:38 PM)Flickering Ember Wrote: Here's the thing and it was mentioned in the previous thread. A race like Au Ra isn't bringing in a significant player base that wasn't there already. It is more of the same and I see it as a race that is essentially generating hype amongst the existing player base rather than pulling in new folks who don't feel represented in this game's character creation.
I would have passed on this game without female roegadyns being added. At this point it is the only races I would consider playing.
Its far too early to make any consequential statements about the attraction of any component of Heavensward to new players, because we are not currently at the Heavensward release point. While those can speculate that it is 'more of the same' that depends entirely on the perspective of the recipient.Â
It is the same in the fact that it is a humanoid race with set variants appealing to a specific aesthetic style that follows the theme of protagonists in the game.
It is not the same in the fact that it is the first race featuring such a broad gender variation (size wise), and as of yet unwritten lore with its own in-storyline introduction. It is also the only available player race that can amount to possessing scales.
Unfortunately, a lot of what people seem to describe or desire as a new race or option tends imply that what they want is a full on beast-race of some sort, or closer too. Ignoring the lore difficulty aspect of having any race stray too far into beastmen territory, comes the system and writing manner in which such characters would find themselves at odds with such beast-men. (The common beastman insult of "Smoothskins" come to mind.)
If we are to get a future race, my preference and recommendation would be of a race that takes the gender-line trends of Au Ra and reverses them - featuring a larger, stronger, perhaps more angular females to their male counterparts, who would then be more demure.
However, that is not Au Ra - and I rather like Au Ra as it's presented.
