Azure The Heartless.3261 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 (edited) I'm going to press the hot take button and say "playable tengu and one new class with two elite specs of its own, then polish to the existing elite specs for everyone else" would have been more hype for this expansion. A lot of birds on a weird new class would have been neat and easier to balance out of the gate. Personal take, not one size fits all. Just wanted to mention. Edited December 10, 2021 by Azure The Heartless.3261 1 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medivh.4725 Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 not interested! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcatraznc.3869 Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Playable Tengu race would means new starter area, new story line that will somehow fit into the already existing one, new animation, voices/voiceline, new armour sets..... That would probably be a lot and way too expensive for the end result. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1508 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) On 12/9/2021 at 7:53 AM, Gibson.4036 said: There was a game called Allods Online in which you could play a group of three little furry critters who worked in tandem to do all the skills. I've always wanted playable skritt like that. It was such a fun character race. That game was amazing in beta, but after release the russian company went crazy and ruined it.. you needed cash shop items to level up.. i left after that.. I miss that game. It was really pvp though.. This thread will never die until Skritt become Playable and when in teams Skritts stats boost. Edited December 31, 2021 by Dante.1508 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson.4036 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Just now, Dante.1508 said: That game was amazing in beta, but after release the russian company went crazy and ruined it.. you needed cash shop items to level up.. i left after that.. I miss that game. It was really pvp though.. Yes, sadly. I got my ship right before they went crazy. Barely got to use it before I left. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1508 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) On 12/12/2021 at 9:33 AM, Alcatraznc.3869 said: Playable Tengu race would means new starter area, new story line that will somehow fit into the already existing one, new animation, voices/voiceline, new armour sets..... That would probably be a lot and way too expensive for the end result. Yes so expensive lol they are making a whole expansion.. 3 minutes ago, Gibson.4036 said: Yes, sadly. I got my ship right before they went crazy. Barely got to use it before I left. I never even got a ship 😞 Edited December 31, 2021 by Dante.1508 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante.1508 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 😞 Edited December 31, 2021 by Dante.1508 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 6 hours ago, Dante.1508 said: Yes so expensive lol they are making a whole expansion.. Precisely. Thus, they probably do not have any additional resources to spare. I mean, look at the state of the Champions chapter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 13 hours ago, Dante.1508 said: Yes so expensive lol they are making a whole expansion.. I never even got a ship 😞 An expansion that will bring in actual revenue to make up for the expense and (likely) gain profit on top. Also ↓ 6 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said: Precisely. Thus, they probably do not have any additional resources to spare. I mean, look at the state of the Champions chapter... A larger (and at least slightly less chaotic) studio might have managed to do both for the purpose of having Tengu be a feature of the expansion, but Arenanet just can't handle it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astralporing.1957 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, The Greyhawk.9107 said: An expansion that will bring in actual revenue to make up for the expense and (likely) gain profit on top. Also ↓ A larger (and at least slightly less chaotic) studio might have managed to do both for the purpose of having Tengu be a feature of the expansion, but Arenanet just can't handle it. Maybe. But then, Square-Enix announced some time ago that the new races they introduced with previous expansion will be their last, because it is way too costly to do that again. Costly to the point where in Shadowbringers they added only genderlocked versions of those two races, and in Endwalker added the missing gender option for only one of those two, because they didn;t have the resources to do both. And not only FF XIV team is bigger than GW2 one (with almost certainly way bigger budget), but also adding a new race in that game is not tied to as many complications as in GW2 (due to both character not being voiced, and your race not having any impact on the story whatsoever). 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 3 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said: Maybe. But then, Square-Enix announced some time ago that the new races they introduced with previous expansion will be their last, because it is way too costly to do that again. Costly to the point where in Shadowbringers they added only genderlocked versions of those two races, and in Endwalker added the missing gender option for only one of those two, because they didn;t have the resources to do both. And not only FF XIV team is bigger than GW2 one (with almost certainly way bigger budget), but also adding a new race in that game is not tied to as many complications as in GW2 (due to both character not being voiced, and your race not having any impact on the story whatsoever). Indeed, my point exactly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybarf Tics.2048 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 The Tengu will become playable In Guild Wars 3, release date April 2029. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trepidation Lost.3469 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Either they’ve done it and it’s the best marketing thing they’ve ever done or they havnt and they never will as it’s too much effort to them. Despite the fact so many players would buy an extra chat slot + the expac for it. Blows my mind. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Trepidation Lost.3469 said: Either they’ve done it and it’s the best marketing thing they’ve ever done or they havnt and they never will as it’s too much effort to them. Despite the fact so many players would buy an extra chat slot + the expac for it. Blows my mind. Blows my mind that there are still people that think, after almost 30 pages explaining why it'd be so insanely cost prohibitive, that there would be enough people that'd purchase Slots or that would buy EoD that previously wouldn't have without Tengu to make it worth Arenanet's and the general player base's time. We're talking a delay for EoD by a minimum of a year, probably much more, along side a huge content drought in the mean time. 3 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalThought.9835 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Did ESO just throw shade at GW2. They're allowing players to play a Tengu in their next expansion, unlike GW2 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, VocalThought.9835 said: Did ESO just throw shade at GW2. They're allowing players to play a Tengu in their next expansion, unlike GW2 Whoop-de-do. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson.4036 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) On 7/28/2021 at 9:58 AM, Telgum.6071 said: I guess never. Too much effort for very little use. Races are only relevant during the first 30 levels, which is probably less than 1% of the time long-term players will invest in the game. Just make a permanent Tengu tonic like the Kodan tonic and there you have your playable tengu race. If the thing is about visiting the tengu lands, that could be an argument for a hipothetic LWS6, no new race needed. To be honest I prefer Anet to focus on things that need more attention, like dungeons, WvW, sPvP, new raids, fixing bugs or developing new QoL features. I like that this now 29 page thread was answered in the second post on page 1. Edited January 28, 2022 by Gibson.4036 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esorono.1039 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 5 hours ago, VocalThought.9835 said: Did ESO just throw shade at GW2. They're allowing players to play a Tengu in their next expansion, unlike GW2 While it would be neat if it was true, but there is no confirmed species similar to Tengu in Elder Scrolls besides a vaguely described 'bird people' from Cyrodiil which most likely never exist or extinct like the Lilmothiit. Nor can I find anything while searching for this information. ESO is one of the few games where I feel they actually have enough races, as every civilized mortal race is playable, and even then you can get a skin that makes you look like most humanoid daedra or maormer while maintaining your character's armors, facial and body features. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killforbeers.7534 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) It now feels like a running joke as it seems ANET is not able to make or cannot make any new races. I also know that some expected in this expansion to have underwater fights in WvW for map control that they had from what I was told the first few years in WvW instead of this boring stand in a circle while it changes color. Oh well, I guess we will get submarines if there is ever another expansion. Maybe this is End ...EOD... Edited January 28, 2022 by killforbeers.7534 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vayne.8563 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 On 1/29/2022 at 9:05 AM, killforbeers.7534 said: It now feels like a running joke as it seems ANET is not able to make or cannot make any new races. I also know that some expected in this expansion to have underwater fights in WvW for map control that they had from what I was told the first few years in WvW instead of this boring stand in a circle while it changes color. Oh well, I guess we will get submarines if there is ever another expansion. Maybe this is End ...EOD... Anet CAN make new races, in the same way I can make a sushi out of a tree root. It's doable, I just have no desire to do it. The return on investment potential isn't there, even though some people think it is. In business you look at how much something costs, what else you'd have to sacrifice to get it and whether it's worth it. Deciding not to do something is very different from not being able to. You obviously feel absolutely certain that making a new race is worth it. Others are just as certain that it's not. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocalThought.9835 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 On 1/28/2022 at 1:53 PM, Esorono.1039 said: While it would be neat if it was true, but there is no confirmed species similar to Tengu in Elder Scrolls besides a vaguely described 'bird people' from Cyrodiil which most likely never exist or extinct like the Lilmothiit. Nor can I find anything while searching for this information. ESO is one of the few games where I feel they actually have enough races, as every civilized mortal race is playable, and even then you can get a skin that makes you look like most humanoid daedra or maormer while maintaining your character's armors, facial and body features. If you watch the play through for the new expansion you'll see the armor they use, looks mighty Tengu'ish! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 32 minutes ago, VocalThought.9835 said: If you watch the play through for the new expansion you'll see the armor they use, looks mighty Tengu'ish! Oh no they have skinned the Tengu and made armors of them the horror. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Greyhawk.9107 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 7 hours ago, Linken.6345 said: Oh no they have skinned the Tengu and made armors of them the horror. Those monsters!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greymantle.9168 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Seriously though, how was it not in the budget to stick these guys in as a new playable race...for *this* expansion lol. 5 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costepj.5120 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Might be something to do with the fact they've clearly stated that new races are "off the table". 10 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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