I hope they don't for retarded furry races like Khajit and Lizards. Just have human, dark elves (with katana and dai katana affinities) and various ethnicity's of humans. Or fuck even the dark elves and go with humans.
Hating "furry" races is a meme born of hating furries. (Which is fine. Furries are clearly mentally ill.) But Khajiit and Argonians are cool. All the various sub-species of Khajiit and their drastically different physiology and cultural roles... the fact that Argonians really are just a bunch of dumb fucking lizards given purpose by a nefarious hivemind called the Hist... that shit is cool as hell. Sci-fi as hell. I say keep it up.
As to having elves, etc. were you born with shit taste, or was shit taste thrust upon you?
TES is the
only work of post-Tolkein fantasy to write elves in a way that doesn't suck. Why is that? Because they aren't even really "elves." They're Mer. They're descendants of the Old Ehlnofey that became Mer, which is a group distinct from the descendants of Old Ehlnofey that became Men (and perhaps Giants and Goblins and Dreughs and Sloads, and all the rest as well). Their existence isn't "elvish." It's cultural, political, and spiritual, down to the very fabric of their existence. TES "elves" are incredible.
Dark elves, or whatever else you're advocating for, are corny shit with extra corn. Nobody with an IQ above 20 wants to see more generic D&D ripoffs, which are in turn garbage-tier ripoffs of innumerable Tolkein ripoffs. It's boring, boring,
boring.
Don't you want your video games to say something unique? Don't you want a new experience? I sure do. Push the envelope.