Character Customization needs an update.

[Iscah]

Thumbs up from me.

Been asking for updates to the character customization for the past 8yrs. We always just been given excuses as to why it's not doable.
Just once, I'd like to see some headway in this.

But if it really isn't doable, what can they possibly say? It's either no again, or a vague maybe that's really a no but they don't want to have to say it.

There's no headway to be made if they actually can't do what you're asking for.

[Allegor]

Perhaps they're not thinking of it in terms of people constantly changing hairstyles? Or they just decided that it was a necessary sacrifice to achieve their vision for the design, whether players would actually agree or not.

I can't know what the rest of the dev team think of altering their characters or not, but Yoshida's Lalafell character has always used the same hairstyle as far as I can recall, and doesn't even change her outfit.

And at a totally different level, for my own case, I rarely if ever change my characters' physical appearance. Their hairstyle is part of their appearance, and they look odd if it's different. If I had a Hrothgar character I wouldn't be remotely bothered by the lack of changeable hairstyles because I wouldn't feel the need to change it.

I guess it's more of the same mindset that goes into designing NPCs, or fixed player-characters in games that have them. Create a distinctive appearance and stick to it.

So perhaps they simply underestimated how strongly people feel about being able to change it regularly - or maybe the people that do that are a minority of players. I'd be interested to see a random poll of players about whether or how frequently they change their character's appearance.

I'm inclined to agree to an extent. I like my Hroth as is and wouldn't feel the need to change his hair even if I could. That said, the fact they have such a limited selection to begin with, in addition that they can't even cycle between the 2 hairstyles that share the same face is still troubling. There's a reason almost every Hroths chose face 2 - because both their hairstyles [and/or face itself] are the best of the 8.