10 races that are better than Cathar.

That is very weird, I dont kno anybody who'd vote for that. Interesting how you worded that tho "before launch". How many of those people do you think are playing the game now? Probably not the same, or as many.

Please if someone voted for the cathar explain why and i promise il shut up, n i wont make fun of you, i dont understand it man.

But you can't have human sounding voice overs with any of those. That's the reason it's cathar.

I waited for Cathar from moment I first launched SWTOR (beta). Now Finally I'll have them.
Now I only need more character slots :/

Not one of the "species" OP mentions is better than the Cathar. Sure, I would have prefered to get first the Togruta, but I can see that the Cathar are easier for BioWare to do...

Am i the only one who wants to play as a Weequay? I mean they're force sensitive, as well as being notorious scoundrals, so we can have smugglers and BH... shall i keep dreaming?

I also like the Weequey and would like to see them eventually as playable species, but I guess not many people like them so they are pretty low priority.

First of, don't present these races as if it is universally decided that these races are better than Cathar. Moreover you did not even specify why they are better.

Second, you might want to consider what implementing certain races would mean for gameplay.
*Some might find wookiee romancing to be quite disturbing
*non-basic speaking races would be far less easy to relate to and require far more reading, while the quality of this game is VO
*it would not make sense for some of the races to join both factions
*for smaller races all camera angles have to be changed and BW would have to make sure they are equally easy to select in PvP.
*for some races all the gear would have to be changed

Im sure its tempting to jump on the QQ bandwagon and claim to speak for the masses, but I suggest thinking things through better and/or making valid suggestions...

EDIT: I personally do not understand why half those races would be any better than Cathar. The less human races look, the less easy it is to relate to them and to connect with them.

I've explained this in other threads so I'll make it brief:
The Devs obviously want (need?) to recycle the SAME rigging/animations, so that throws out all the weird "too tall/too short" races. And we also need ones that show enough emotion to work in cutscenes (though they did let us have Miraluka, so who knows...).

Also there will always be the people who QQ about wanting helmets to work right on their race (just look at Twi'leks).
Example:
As awesome as I think Transdoshans are (and I'd gladly play one), it's likely the devs would just not let headgear be displayed on them at all because it would be too much work to recreate every piece of gear to fit the head shape.

You'll notice that even on the NPC's, all they're wearing is some kinda headband. Unless they make up a lore reason for no helmets, it's going to frustrate players.

And I don't even think I need to explain the voice acting constrictions for races!



That said, from the preview, the Cathar smuggler didn't even LOOK Cathar, as those I've seen before have wide, flat noses. His nose just looked... human. And the hair was the same recycled haircut... what about the kind of "mane" hair I've seen on Cathar NPC's? Pretty disappointing there. They should at LEAST work with what they have (face design).

then, do 10 companions that are better than HK

then, 10 planets that are better than makeb

it doesn't matter what they do, haters are going to hate