Also, while being able to give your PC weird eyes, horns or a tail might have seemed cool 15 years ago, it really seems quite banal nowadays. No wonder people prefer to make their PC a normal human.
Maybe it's still a novelty to those that were too young 15 years ago. Not that I was ever tempted to play Skyrim as a lizard or a cat even the first time. As for the elves, why do they always have those silly pointed ears? It seems very overused to me.
All those conversations dweebs used to have about being an edgy drow simpy outcast pining over human booby teenage girls while cucking their human barbarian fiancee have been left in the dirt. And feeling edgy and oppressed as a drow entering a town. What aspirations they had.
But modern RPGs just leap-frogged over recognizing your character for their race and appearance, and developers just want you to be a degenerate demonic bear shagger. That's what gets recognized.
What I really want to know is (might even buy the game if this is true) is there a summon goat spell? Or a BG1 equivelant wand of polymorphing > goat?. We might want the Welsh and the Arabs to feel the inclusivity as the goaty goat shaggers of the world.