New Race: Tengu
Stop doing this. it gets rehashed literally every week. logistically there is no way anet could work a new race in, bring back every voice actor to redo all the lines adding in new race options, create an entire new character model and make every combination of armor and weapon fit on all 3 weight classes and 2 genders, its just NOT POSSIBLE. stop it.
Stop doing this. it gets rehashed literally every week. logistically there is no way anet could work a new race in, bring back every voice actor to redo all the lines adding in new race options, create an entire new character model and make every combination of armor and weapon fit on all 3 weight classes and 2 genders, its just NOT POSSIBLE. stop it.
This is all very true, a new race is definitely alot of work, especially for one that would require their own body type like the Tengu. Despite this though, ANet will likely still go ahead with releasing a new race in the future. A focus point in releasing a new expansion is to rope in new players and bring back previous players, and to do that you need a hook. The only thing that really works for this is either a new race or a new class.
While specializations are a spectacular way for end-game progression, it wont bring in new players. The people who are going to play the game are going to be wanting to play the new thing, so end-game content wont bring them in.
It is possible that they will release more classes in the future, but that brings its own problems. It throws game balance into chaos, adds accumulating pressure onto future expansions as it will increase the amount of specializations that need to be made in the future, and adapting a new class to each of the existing races is alot of work as well. Also, ANet has a good class balance right now, and new classes would end up either overlapping with current classes or would be better off using the idea for a new class as a new specialization instead.
So while a new race is a logistical nightmare, it is also a necessary evil that Anet will have to tackle in the future.
Stop doing this. it gets rehashed literally every week. …its just NOT POSSIBLE. stop it.
Not everyone has read the massive threads on the topic. There are new players all the time. It’s well within their “right” to express an opinion about what they’d like to see.
If you’ve lost patience with explaining the economic reality, then let others go into the details. I don’t mind posting again about how ANet can put out many new stories for the same effort, because a new race involves (just for starters) hiring 40 new voice actors (one per race, gender, and supported language) and retrofitting other parts of the game.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
this notice was brought to you by a Misguided Misfit