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There should be WAAAAAAAY more races available on release
Torgin
Member Posts: 82
Bothans, Wookies, and Trandoshans. Seriously.
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I'd have to find the quote but they stated there was a reason why they didn't include more races (something about not connecting with the character)
There may be more in a later expansion but right now you have something like 7 races. Which is okay for launch.
You also have to take into account if such races are force sensitive they will have to morph their faces as well. Not sure how that would work for a wookie or tradoshans.
Launches tend to not have many classes included at launch, expecially when so much money is spent on voice acting, story, worlds, combat, and other such things.
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The reason is: ugly races don't have sex scenes in the same way pretty ones do.
That's the bottom line. The races selected for the game are all of the "sexy humanoid" type - that is, their more "attractive" members would generally be considered sexy by most people. Though some people have.. unique tastes.. most people don't find Wookies, Bothans, and Trandoshans arousing - so they aren't in the game. Apparently, it would take too much effort/creativity to make a non-sexy path, so those races don't exist.
The result of this is a less interesting game. Not everyone wants to play a big-breasted Jedi-Jigglegirl all of the time! We don't all want dialogue options for the same sexy-path. ::sigh::
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races, theres plenty of races, you can choose any colour of human you like.. er wait .. thats just one isnt it...
twi'lek isn't human.
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Just gonna end this, if you knew anything about Bw it isn't all about whether something is sexy or not. It's about the story.
If you had noticed you can have a wookie companion also you can have a fat twi'lek if it was all based on sexy or not, that wouldn't be an option.
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"The races selected for the game are all of the "sexy humanoid" type - that is, their more "attractive" members would generally be considered sexy by most people."
Maybe you're thinking of Rodians..?
They would be cool, too. 
I will agree i would have liked more diverse races but i'm fine with the ones we have. We have an alien race (twi'lek) we have a race that can see the force but is blind to everything else (miraluki sp?) plus a few others including human.
It is entirely possible more could be added later in patches to fit the story.
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This being an RPG and its races more than a costume, I agree wholeheartedly with the way BioWare has handled it.
I am guessing that this is something they plan for expansions. But of course would more races be good.
As long as there is no ewoks. Or whatever Jar Jar is, imagine 300 Jar jars on every server *shudders*.
Twi'lek females = sexy humans with cool colors and tentacles on their heads instead of hair.
Mirs are humans. Really. It is part of their history. They are humans that have been so irradiated that they've all developed force sensitivity and are all blind, but they're still human.
Ask yourself this question: would Star Wars have been the same movie without Chewie? Would we still be having the argument about Han shooting first if Greedo had looked like the guy from Jersey Shore instead of a crazy Rodian? Was Jabba more interesting as a human (which he was in the very earliest movies if you've seen the special features) or a crazy slug monster?
This game doesn't have enough racial diversity. It will suffer because of it.
I never really watched star wars, but are there any species where the females have more than two bewbs. If not, thats just another reason to not bother watching the movie series.
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"star wars lore would disagree with you."
Actually, Star Wars Lore agrees with me. Go look at a picture of a female one. You know, like that dancer that gets eaten.
"You are aware that you can have a wookie companion?"
Unless I can actually play the Wookie, I don't really care.
"No, thats speculation."
No, it R a FACTZ!
The races are all very similar, and fall into the previously mentioned pattern. You can't discredit that because it is true. 
jar jar binks was ... an insane addition to the movies, as for ewoks.. less said the better.. some of the races from the films probably wouldnt be missed at all, but... having a wookie companion isnt the same as being able to play as a wookie, i think quite a bit of this stems from the fact that the game revolves pretty much around the jedi, and force powers etc, so any player who has no wish to play as one, i still think that the game needs a 3rd or more even.. faction, bounty hunters and smugglers after all, are neither law abiding nor idealists, neither one belongs in either imperial or rebel factions, maybe as a member of one of the hutt factions or some other criminal organisation... although i do know why they chose only human or near humans as playable races, Star Wars has such a diverse population that the choice itself is far too limiting, and can only be because of the restrictions due to the voiceovers.. though i think that a previous statement about it being because human(oid)s are 'sexier' is also probably not too far from the truth, in that it is also likely a cosmetic restriction.
Bioware made some choices in developing the game that have restricted the races that are easilly set up. Since they went with full voicing, they've pretty much said that races that can't speak 'Basic', can't be played. Unless you'd like something akin to a retcon where all Wookies suddenly speak normally.
Setting up the animations and all the convolutions for creatures is very time consuming, and for each form it requires doing essentially all the same design work over again. So forms that are not bipedal humanoids lose out. It is just a function of development that they've chosen races that allow them to most easilly use all their development time equally.
Perhaps in a further expansion or in a DLC, you may see something stretching these limits. But a fraction of the possible player base wanting an addition that would put them far behind in time to release? Not likely to happen.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Uh, do they have humans ?
Then they have enough races for me.
Seriously, of the other races, only Twilecks are really interesting. The rest is just pretty much just: another humanoid with weird skin colors and some other superflous features.
Most SWG's players used Humans and the more human looking races most of the time, even BW doesn't have infinite time and money, they had to cut corners somewere. The # and Type of races is probably one of the safest places to cut
There are still more races that are yet to be revealed.
But they will follow the basic humanoid model (2 legs, 2 arms and 1 head) and will be able to speak basic.
No Wookiees and no Trandoshans.
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I can live with having only a few racees to pick from. Having everything working is way more important. Aditional races can be added later.
Here is the offical explanation .
1 they dont like unfinished polished aliens that dont fit with there story lines .
2 Humanois character are easier for people to identify themself with it .
Just they put it in more political and meaningfull way .
This is my speculation , so take it with a big bag of salt .
1 Companions if made playable could be one of there future ideas for Alien race switiching .
(grand espeda you could switch toon any time you want idea)
This is my gut feeling or instinct , they want to do something else with those droids robots wookie etc .
And converting the Aliens to Companions while allowing to make them playable , is a new twist .
While not having to do all kind of story lines and Voice Over for them .
2 Expansion can promise those , thus making it more profitable by introducing Alien races .
3 That there are already combat animation for most alien races and droids or robots .
Means its just a matter of time before they will let the cat out of the bag .
But again its my speculation .
How many races are there in the SW universe for BW too pick as playable races?
Personally, aslong as they are humanoid like I'm not that bothered.
I seriously agree. It just belongs to a Star Wars MMO.
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The "making of" vids of some of the Mass Effect alien race says otherwise... just saying.
While it is true that that there are seven races available at launch, isn't it also true that some professions are race exclusive - so, for example, you can't ever be a Sith Pureblood Jedi?