Jinte wrote:
- the land is named Eorzea, not Vana'diel
- The "galka" has no tail, thus, is not a galka, they probably just used the galka frame as a reference to allow people to let "size" selection mean something.
- the elf is an elf. 3/4 of MMOs today have elves, and half of those have multiple kinds of elves.
- The hume looks like a FFXI hume, but so? Humans are humans, and it probably made for a good base model.
I'm glad they cut out the tails, because it looks terrible. You want to have a huge, muscular fighter, not some stupid tail. That's actually the only reason I didn't pick Galka when I started, the tail.
The Hume and Elvaan in the trailer look nearly identical to XI.
Eorzea is certainly a new location, but there's no reason to think it can't be connected to Vana'diel. We've only seen like, 25% of the mapped out world, not including time travel and alternate dimesions.
Also, to get people to leave 7 years of work on XI and start from scratch without any benefit is stupid. I agree, you're not going to transfer and just be level 75, but maybe once you level up, you'll get access to some stuff you had, or possibly new bonuses on a new character for starting over. Also, this could be limited to only one job. It certainly wouldn't break the game in any way. People are going to be max level in a week or less anyway.