User blog comment:Krayfish/New changes to humans/@comment-5870856-20141026211021/@comment-1743498-20141026212308

No offense taken as it's perfectly understandable. To be honest, at the very beginning, I actually never really wanted humans to appear at all as the idea originated just as a throwaway explanation as to why Earth existed in Spore. However, I soon realized that the absence of any humans or human-like characters resulted in an entirely different problem altogether: without anything the intended human audience could relate with, the setting would become too alienating and difficult to understand to the average reader.

Seeing as I haven't seen any real consensus to remove humans altogether, with this idea, as long as we downplay them so that they never explored any significant distance beyond the Milky Way, I think it should be okay. Anything humans may have done would still have been hugely overshadowed by the universe spanning Empire of Arckas as humanity never reached the level of technological advancement they did.