Character Creation Failure

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Originally Posted by RubyCirha

Your realize the bench mark literally is just to see if your pc can run the new stuff comeing and that the charicter creator is just a sampling of what's in the main game there may be more hair styles in the full release of the game so calm down its ok life moves on

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Yoshida already confirmed that for release what is in the benchmark is what we are getting at launch. Personaly, I wish they went for 1 masculine and 1 feminine hairstyle, instead of two masculine hairstyles.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

So, with each new expansion that supposedly contains a whole game's worth of new content, you're completely content to sit by without expecting any additions to character creation? Whether they've said no before or not doesn't matter. Each new expansion delivers what is essentially a game refresh, that is the perfect time to offer updates and enhancements to character creation.

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Character creation isn't that big a deal. I would put it at the bottom of the list, compared many other things I would like to be changed/improved first.

Not just that but, the two new hairstyles are copies of already existing hairs. They are going to add just two hairs, and they aren't new.

I would like to see more customization options but that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down on the list, so no.. while it would be nice, I am not upset that there won't be new ones.

Are we still spreading the "massively increased budget" meme?

I am hoping they will add some more as 4 faces is a little failsauce.

I want few nicer hairstyles and more options and please someway of making my skinny arse cats bottom bigger...they stole it and gave it to the Au ra :D

Ask again when 5.0 comes in the distant future. They said no and we have to respect that. Yeah, it sucks that we didn't get further customization, but that's how it is sometimes. Atleast they have listen to most of our pleas.

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Well this thread is like a feedback, I mean OP is stating points in general so maybe someday maybe in a near patch they can improve that, i know is hard doing it all together but why not adding little stuff like other types of eye brows or special features that are no race locket.
Dont say just cause it dosent matter to you is something lesser and shouldnt have to be take in consideration, man people pay a lot for fantasia almost everyday so knowing that fantasia is a good profit for the game, they should take CC serious. Lets be hones a lot of people mostly who plays female characters are very disapointed with the 2 hairstyles that are coming with the expansion(it seems very lazy), HW had 2 for female and 2 for male Im hopping they share race exclusive hairstyles atleast for the next patch after launch.

I too am a bit bummed at the lack of character customization. Its getting kinda boring seeing everyone that looks so similar because we are so limited in face options and such. And hairstyles too. I feel like all the mens short hair looks too similar, idk. I am disappointed that we didn't get a new race or character customization options.

As for only two new hairstyles at launch I'm not too surprised because I'm sure they will add more along the way.

I don't care about any of the character creation options except the hairstyles. I want them to fix the major clipping issues with longer hair and armor/shield models. Only then would I want them to add in more hair and other options. As it stands right now I am unable to wear any hairstyles that are longer than the jawline.

More character customisation = require more processing from consoles&PC.





Take APB Reload on consoles as an example...the devs said the reason for poor performance is because of their character customisation and how much you can do to them.


Granted we'll never have that much freedom on 14, it's just an example of what could happen, people with PC/laptop that plays in medium would probably struggle and have to lower their settings even lower and i wouldn't imagine how it would be on ps4.

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Originally Posted by RubenSnizzle

people with PC/laptop that plays in medium would probably struggle and have to lower their settings even lower and i wouldn't imagine how it would be on ps4.

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Hiiiiighly doubtful, considering FFXIV's customization options are barely better than WoW's. There are tons of MMOs out there with very detailed character creation that run perfectly fine.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

2 new jobs, both in large demand, battle system and job/cross class system changes, swimming and diving, increased inventory, a new housing ward (assumed to be the same scale of the others, capacity wise), increased furnishings, an improved loot system, a complete surprise of new areas, a PvP overhaul. . .

. . .and we're upset over 2 new hairstyles?

Ok.

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Not that I don't agree with your point, but... I'd sacrifice swimming for more customization in a heartbeat. I fear swimming will lead to Blitzball. :(

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Originally Posted by RaijinSupreme

Character creation isn't that big a deal. I would put it at the bottom of the list, compared many other things I would like to be changed/improved first.

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Raiding isn't a big part of the game if you look at the completion rates, yet it gets attention every expansion and every other patch. I'd bet that there are at least as many interested in more character options and glamour as there are raiding. By your logic SE should stop working on raids. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Raiding isn't a big part of the game if you look at the completion rates, yet it gets attention every expansion and every other patch. I'd bet that there are at least as many interested in more character options and glamour as there are raiding. By your logic SE should stop working on raids. What do you think?

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More character options isn't gonna give players incentive to keep playing the game, while raiding does. Glamour, while something that does keep people playing, is also something that can tie into raiding, unless you've never done any old raids for the purpose of collecting glamour gear? (or in the case of Coil, crafting mats for dyeable versions.)

The only thing I'd really like that I can think of is for them to remove face types, and simply make the different nose/mouth/eye/horn variations interchangeable.

I love my fin horns, but don't like the fact that all of female Au Ra face 4's mouth options look serious, whereas the other faces all have at least one option that looks cheerful (Though I suppose that could be also be remedied by simply allowing your character's default expression to be changed, because my face looks fine to me when smirking/smiling).

Would have loved a new race. That is disappointing to me. Relative to new character options, dunno, would have been nice but certainly not a deal breaker for me. The Aura were very well received, just look around to see how many people are using them. Relative to hairstyles, I suspect we'll get a ton more over time.

I am not disappointed there aren't more character creation options simply because they didn't say that they were planning that as part of the expansion and generally I don't get hopes over things that aren't promised. I am however totally behind lobbying for more options just as I am for having them work on and create a glamour wardrobe feature.

I think it is unfair to say they don't pay attention. Just cause they don't do something doesn't mean they aren't listening. They have to make choices based on priorities, realistic targets and demand. People have been screaming for more inventory space for ages and so that has been something they have invested in heavily this expansion. People have wanted more housing available so they are adding an additional 33% to the current housing amount. People really wanted RDM and SAM and they have made both classes. They are doing cross realm party features that people have asked for. They are adding an extra layer to difficulty of 8 mans which people have asked after.

Just cause they don't do everything or comment on everything doesn't mean they don't pay attention.

more character custominations can come, but not during the character creation (except hairstyles)

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They are aware of requests for options to add things such as tattoos and body hair for your character, and that if they were to implement them, it would be more realistic system-wise to make them equippable items, rather than options at Character Creation.

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http://www.siliconera.com/2017/03/06...ing-expansion/

Can they at least just give us muscle tone sliders on all the races? Why can't a hunter-gatherer race like the Sun Seeker Miqo'tes or the noamdic Xaela Au Ra be lithe & toned?

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I mean, I'm pretty happy with my characters appearance. Haven't had the urge to fantasia since i settled on this. Which is a big change, since its been 8 months now. New hairstyles are nice, but I'm happy where I'm at.

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I am on the same boat too. I haven't changed Ren's appearance since I first started playing XIV (it's been 3 years).

As for the long hair crisis, it's gonna be a while for them to add more until they fix the clipping part. I am one of the few who don't approve the clipping which is why I hardly ever wear the long hairstyles that are currently available because of it (also because most of them don't look so great, I only like the one from PotD).

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Originally Posted by TristanBlane

Its getting kinda boring seeing everyone that looks so similar because we are so limited in face options and such.

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Are we?

Take female Hyur Midlander - 5 face shapes, 4 jaws, 5 eyes, 5 noses, 5 eyebrows, 4 mouth options. The first option for each of those would be one face, change any of them to the second option while not changing anything else is a different face (not strikingly different, but still different and it's not uncommon for MMOs that don't use a slider to use similar faces with just a couple details altered to make difference options). Those combinations start to add up after a while (just doing each base face with one of the four different mouth options leads to twenty variations, and there are MMOs out there where twenty is the total number of options full stop).

I'm not saying we couldn't use a number of improvements (more vibrant hair colors, better facial hair options, more ear options, letting Au Ra choose which horn style they want to go with their chosen face, etc) but it's not like we're stuck with just 5 faces.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Raiding isn't a big part of the game if you look at the completion rates, yet it gets attention every expansion and every other patch. I'd bet that there are at least as many interested in more character options and glamour as there are raiding. By your logic SE should stop working on raids. What do you think?

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What do you mean, "by your logic"? you mentioned raiding, not me. I didn't even say anything about what gets more attention, and what doesn't, or who completes what, or anything lol.

All I said is that its not a big deal, cause it isn't. not to me anyway. This game has never been advertised as a dress up game, and I certainly don't play it for that reason.

And if I had to choose which would get more attention, it would be raiding. I actually like playing the game, and more options to play the game is always more appealing for me.

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Originally Posted by DreamAngel-Ren

I am on the same boat too. I haven't changed Ren's appearance since I first started playing XIV (it's been 3 years).

As for the long hair crisis, it's gonna be a while for them to add more until they fix the clipping part. I am one of the few who don't approve the clipping which is why I hardly ever wear the long hairstyles that are currently available because of it (also because most of them don't look so great, I only like the one from PotD).

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Honestly at this point of playing J'talhdi, I identify her as the main character of the story so much it would feel off to change her. Plus I like her. I used a fantasia once when I though about tweaking her appearance but ended up changing almost nothing.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

People have been screaming for more inventory space for ages and so that has been something they have invested in heavily this expansion. People have wanted more housing available so they are adding an additional 33% to the current housing amount. People really wanted RDM and SAM and they have made both classes. They are doing cross realm party features that people have asked for.

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For two of those three things, they have apparently ignored what the community has actually asked for. 40 additional inventory spaces does NOT actually solve the problems of inventory in this game. A glamour log, a tackle box, all those random currencies from raids or beast tribes going into the currency tab - those are the serious suggestions that the community has pushed for years. Likewise with housing, there has been clear consensus here that just adding wards is never going to fix the housing problem. For one, there will simply never be enough houses for everyone with a limited supply. For another, the problem is more than just the supply. The way housing is currently designed means that we are extremely limited in decor count and customization ability.

We say SE doesn't pay attention because they clearly aren't.

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Originally Posted by Felis

more character custominations can come, but not during the character creation (except hairstyles)

http://www.siliconera.com/2017/03/06...ing-expansion/

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This is so not even what people have been complaining about when it comes to character creation... Yet another example of SE not actually listening.

The only thing I want out of CC and the only that disappoints me is the lack of added beards. A beard is the only thing I would change on my character, a character that's from Balmung and never used a fantasia or name change on since ARR beta.

I have just really always wanted a better Regis-beard then the stubble my guy has now. But I still hold out hope we may get a beard if and when we do a ffxv crossover.
http://www.theworkprint.com/wp-conte...king-regis.jpg

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

The only thing I want out of CC and the only that disappoints me is the lack of added beards.

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For both males and females.

(Could not resist)

Eh. I expected it.

I don't mind two hairstyles. We had that in Heavensward too. I care more about being a glorious Red Mage at long last. They never promised an overhaul of character creation either so the fact it didn't happen is fine with me.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

Honestly at this point of playing J'talhdi, I identify her as the main character of the story so much it would feel off to change her. Plus I like her. I used a fantasia once when I though about tweaking her appearance but ended up changing almost nothing.

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The only thing I change on my character is her hairstyle and glamour as of way to show that time has somewhat passed since her last adventure lol. My sister -when she to used play- would urge me to change my character's race and I'm like, "After taking over 100 screenshots of her plus recorded multiple favorite scenes from the game...I don't think so." It would ruin my story lore XDD

Literally the only character creation option I want is horn customization. I don't even want more horns, I just want access to the other 3 horn styles that are already in the game.

In FF 11 Miqo'tes had a cat noise not a human noise i don't know why in FF14 they are trying to make animal races more human looking. Bring back cat noises for Miqo'te.

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Originally Posted by Beckett

Literally the only character creation option I want is horn customization. I don't even want more horns, I just want access to the other 3 horn styles that are already in the game.

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Inbefore this is a PS3 Blame Post, it is not, not everything that is flawed currently was done because of the PS3

Since this was apparently a PS3 Issue with the Horns and making them seperately possible would cause Memory Issues...., getting rid of the PS3 Support I was hoping that we could seperate the Horns in Stormblood....
Sadly this isn't happening at the beginning of Stormblood. One can hope that they consider getting rid of these Memory Problems during Stormblood...

But ya, it is annoying as an Au Ra Male to almost look the same as every other Au Ra, as the other two "Face/Horn" Options are rather... dull looking.
The only difference lies in being a Raen/Xaela and the Skintone, the rest is kinda hardly different.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

More character options isn't gonna give players incentive to keep playing the game, while raiding does. Glamour, while something that does keep people playing, is also something that can tie into raiding, unless you've never done any old raids for the purpose of collecting glamour gear? (or in the case of Coil, crafting mats for dyeable versions.)

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Raiding does nothing for me, thank you very much.

I was hoping for at least something, Maybe We'll get a new race Fanfest comes and goes well alright PS3 support is dropping maybe we'll see some more customization options nope we arent doing that either well thats gotta mean they are doing a visual overhaul we have no plans to and then it just kept going and going nope nope nope.....Stormbloods an expansion maybe we'll see a bunch of new hairstyles added yaaaaa Nooooope only 2 and they are both the same for male/female. I know it was a bad idea to get my hopes up but come on this is an expansion

Instead they are adding increased inventory slots? most of my inventory problems could be solved if they gave us some kind of outfit system that pretty much every other MMO and even F2P MMOs currently have. But at least we can look forward to new hairstyles added in a patch-*cough* Mogstation

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Originally Posted by Blackcanary

In FF 11 Miqo'tes had a cat noise not a human noise i don't know why in FF14 they are trying to make animal races more human looking. Bring back cat noises for Miqo'te.

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Because the Tanaka team decided to bring only similar races, but not the same.
So, Miqo'te =/= Mithra

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Originally Posted by Blackcanary

In FF 11 Miqo'tes had a cat noise not a human noise i don't know why in FF14 they are trying to make animal races more human looking. Bring back cat noises for Miqo'te.

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No, hell no. That would make Miqo'te even more unbearable.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

Raiding does nothing for me, thank you very much.

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I noticed that you have not done any normal raid or 24 man raid in Heavensward. Is this an alt?

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Originally Posted by Yeol

I noticed that you have not done any normal raid or 24 man raid in Heavensward. Is this an alt?

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I think it means that he means what he says there: No interest in raiding whatsoever.

It makes sense not to engage in content you have no interest in.

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Originally Posted by Kosmos992k

I'm very happy with Kos as well, I spent literally hours and hours on her appearance not including Aesthetician and glamours. But, there are some things I would love to be able to do with her that I can't. Such as give her the round eyes and fangs from Keepers, or use the same face she has from Seekers in the Keeper character creation. It's not even about adding tons of new options so much as it could be about allowing more flexibility in what we have...an of course letting highland males have their eyebrows back.

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Yeah i support you wishes in this as well, been wondering 4 years wtf happening with character options in creations!
I am happy as Valkyrie_Lenneth from Balmung server as well, think ive been lucky, but i always love a hair change and mascara and all that little extras, hey we are girls right!? ;D
You have my likes sweetie: Go for it girl!

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

The only thing I want out of CC and the only that disappoints me is the lack of added beards. A beard is the only thing I would change on my character, a character that's from Balmung and never used a fantasia or name change on since ARR beta.

I have just really always wanted a better Regis-beard then the stubble my guy has now. But I still hold out hope we may get a beard if and when we do a ffxv crossover.
http://www.theworkprint.com/wp-conte...king-regis.jpg

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Ohh yeah!! i would want to see someone with legendary beards and more optional facial hairs!
Damn thats super hunk!!!
Lol small excited!! woohoooo