[Poll] Your most wanted character customization feature?

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Originally Posted by Reinha

Body shape, hair, facial features and races all had at least two vote options relating to them. I didn't mention butts in the opening post, put the option first in the poll or do anything else to specifically promote bigger butts besides offering the choice to vote for it. I'm sorry you're disappointed in what people want.

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Moreso annoyed about seeing topic after topic after topic about the same thing or involved in the same thing all within a week or two's time.

If they are going to add bigger butts can they add a twerk emote as well?

bare feet.

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Originally Posted by Ibkee

There are people in this thread actually surprised others are voting for butt sliders and not unlocking au ra horns from the face, despite only a percentage of the playerbase actually being au ra

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Unlocking features from faces isn't only for horns, though. This could include scars, beauty marks, eyes, noses, mouths, etc.

I voted for more face customization (or new faces), since we already get new hairstyles every patch. As a compulsive alt maker, I need new faces to experiment with (>A<)!

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Originally Posted by Magic-Mal

Democracy is cool until I don't win.

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I just don't want to see any new playable races added until the existing playable races receive more attention where customisation is concerned. What I desire most is additional facial features to play around with. More scars, tattoos and facial hair options would be pretty neat. I'd love Hien's stubble as an option...

I always like having more options...

Had to pick the option for separating facial features from the faces.
Not sure I'd end up using it, but it's a long standing grievance of mine.

Give Highlanders (Male) some damn eyebrows.

Since you could only pick one thing in the poll, I went with more options in the "Face" category. Would also like to have a butt slider but I don't think it is as likely to happen. Adding new categories in the character creator is very hard for them to do unfortunately.

What OP forgot to mention, only more variety to the already existing options will the devs do. Not new options, because that would increase the amount of info that have to be send between servers and clients.
example: instead of "character have face 2" it would be "character have face 2 with horn 4 and beard 5", which is a big No for the devs. Now if they make a face 5 that have horn 4 and beard 5 then that will work.

More faces? yes
More hairstyles? yes
extra option for horns seperated from face? no
mixing 2 hairstyles? no
more sliders? no

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Originally Posted by Aizou_Hiroshi

Give Highlanders (Male) some damn eyebrows.

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Maybe as face paint ^^

Other. What I want is a freaking glamor log or revamp of the terrible glamour system. I cant even have a red glamour for red mage and a black one for black mage becuase they share gear.

At this stage, I would be happy if they loosened the silly nonsensical restrictions they have in place, like being able to choose your horn type, separate eye shadow from tattoos, and many other face options that are locked to one part or another.

for our characters i would really want less clipping on tails, hair, arms, weapons etc. and better textures!

on topic though, i'd want:

・more hairstyles
・more faces
・miqo/aura faces + markings/horns to be separated

i'm ok / don't mind if we get/don't get: sliders, etc. etc.

tank top for girls !!!!!!!

Speaking of Au Ra separated horn types, I wonder why that restriction was chosen. Elezen and lalafells can choose their ear type, so I don't think it would have been difficult to do the same with horns. I guess every race has a single custom trait; in Au Ra's case, the devs decided that customizing the tail was more important than the horns (???), but I'll never understand this. Does anyone actually care about Au Ra tails? I'd have gladly traded it for horn customization!

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Originally Posted by KittyPr

tank top for girls !!!!!!!

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a little out of topic i think? but yes! the sky rat top without all the pads and belts please! :(

More faces would be a good start, just give every race/gender 4 more faces and maybe add a new face every few patches. Too many characters look the same, some races do not have this issue, because they are not popular, but when you look at the Hyur"s, Au Ra and Miqo'tes, 95% people always have the same faces, same look. Which is not a bad thing in it self, but if you want to make your own unique character, one that you can call your own, then this is not possible in FFXIV.

- more faces and let people mix eyes, noses etc.
- separate face make up, if I want to give my character some blush, let me pick other stuff aswell.
- Tattoos and let us place them on other parts of our body
- Long hairstyle
- BOOTY

I wont expect body silders or the ability to make a skinny/fat/muscle character, but they should atleast give us more faces.

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Originally Posted by Yasmina

I would love some system to "mix" two hairstyles, one long back with another short forward.
I think it would save more time than doing hairstyles completely from 0, and i would add a fresh breath to the little customization that we have.

I've done a quick edit to better explain what I mean
https://imgur.com/zco7Z2d.png

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This is a fabulous idea! So many options would be opened up. It is also something that GW2, nor WoW have. :-)

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Originally Posted by Astyrah

a little out of topic i think? but yes! the sky rat top without all the pads and belts please! :(

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You know thats not a tank top right...? <.<

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Originally Posted by Clover_Blake

Speaking of Au Ra separated horn types, I wonder why that restriction was chosen.

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Seems like an awful decision on their part. And yes, they restrict each race with their own unique options.
Elezen and Lalafell would have the ear size and ear clasps.
Miqo'te and Au Ra having tail type and size, Au Ra also have Limbal Rings so they have the most options.
Hyur and Roegadyn got the short end, only having the muscle definition slider.

I guess they outdid themselves with Au Ra for having 3 unique options, and now have no room for another which is the horn type. I'd probably trade Limbal Rings for it though.

EDIT: I forgot that Elezen and Lalafell get ear type as well. I think Miqo'te get ear clasps too but I forgot.

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Originally Posted by Ayumoo

I really just want to be able to equip my weapon to my characters left hand. I'm a lefty, is it so bad that I want her to be a lefty too?

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Yes please!

At least Arcanist gets to be a lefty (with the summoning spell animation) but I would love to be able to change it for the other classes.

Unlock hairstyles for each of the races, mix and match. Horns more style of horns for Au'Ra, ram style horns, straight up horns, etc, and have them unlocked via the face as a separate deal.

Well, not to sound like I'm beating a dead horse here, but...

We want big butts, and we can not lie,
Those other gamers can't deny..

I chose more face options, because as much as people wanna harp on Au Ra, almost every race (particularly for ladies) has "face 1" syndrome.

Roegadammes, as glorious as they are, almost always use the same one or two faces for their clan. They may stand out from the crowd, but unless they're really good at tweaking the facial features and hair it's very easy for them to look identical to each other. Elezen have the same issue: they don't even have four face options, they have two. You just decide if your face comes with make up pre-applied or not. I'm not exempt either: most hyur midlanders tend to use face 1 or the default the game offers you, which is face 5. I run face 5.

Right now races either have next to no options (Elezen), or they have many options but only one or two options look any good. Other than the internet loves cats I honestly believe that's one of the main reasons female Miqo'te are so popular: all four face options look wonderful, and because their proportions are so close to Hyur they get the best of the game's glamour. You honestly have to try very hard to make an ugly female Miqo'te. Au Ra ladies have the most variance in face options, and they all honestly look great (to me), but because horns are attached to face a ton of folks are made to choose based on that (hence why so much face 1).

Give us more face presets to pick from if we must go with presets. And for heaven's sake if Elezen and Lalafell can pick their ear shape and length I don't understand why the Au Ra couldn't do the same with their horns.

a booty slider because... I like big butts and I cannot lie.

Something I've been noticing through the MSQ and job quests is that there are a ridiculous amount of characters using that one nice shoulder-length male hairstyle (at a quick count: Pipin, Artoirel, Briardien, Tedalgrinche, Sevestre), so I really think they could do with some other similar-but-different styles for the sake of their own character designs...


If I could change one thing about character customisation though, I'd really like to have a choice of the emote animations by personality rather than being locked to your character's race/gender. I'm happy with my main Midlander girl's emotes, but for both the other characters I invented-then-created-as-alts (female Roegadyn and male Elezen) the character emotes don't really match up with my idea of their personalities.

If we had more ear and tail options for Miqo'te, particularly kinds that are less "cat," the desires for more animalistic races could be fulfilled for a lot of players.

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Originally Posted by Ametrine

If we had more ear and tail options for Miqo'te, particularly kinds that are less "cat," the desires for more animalistic races could be fulfilled for a lot of players.

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Hmm, I think the Miqo'te ears are technically part of the hairstyle at a programming level? (I remember noticing when I looked through the hairstyle options that some of the ears are slightly different shapes.) Even if they wanted to, they might not be able to give "other" animal ear shapes without either multiplying the number of designs stored in the system, or limiting the combinations by only having certain styles with certain ear shapes - a similar issue to the Au Ra faces/horns but probably even more of an issue because it would have to replace existing "style X with cat ears" information with "style X now has bunny ears" and any existing characters with that hairstyle would probably not be impressed.

In short, I don't think it could happen - it would likely cause more problems than it solves at a game level, and I don't think it would make sense at a lore level either. Miqo'te are cats. It's too late to try to turn them into something else.

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Originally Posted by Anienai

We want CAKE sliders!!!

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Originally Posted by Cypherious

Well, not to sound like I'm beating a dead horse here, but...

We want big butts, and we can not lie,
Those other gamers can't deny..

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Originally Posted by Canopia

a booty slider because... I like big butts and I cannot lie.

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We require booty sliders.

Very hard to choose only 1 of them.
We badly need more faces and more options on faces.
It really bothers me we have only 3-4 faces to choose from. Feels like it's an MMO from the last decade.
More facial hair and muscle sliders (with better muscle definitation textures) for all genders and races would be nice.
The character customization needs a "Reborn" overhaul. And it needs it badly, really badly.

Non at this time they are all ready having issues with server to client data I want better storage/glamor
And hope they keep with good content and I fear Eureka.

Having recently played ESO for the first time recently...I wish character creation here had as many dials to adjust as that game. Yes, it has butt sliders, which while I initially laughed, I found that it’s better than being stuck with little to no butt at all.

My main wish is to allow different hairstyles depending on what gear set you have active, or perhaps find a way to attach different styles to different glamour plates.

I don't pretend to know how the game works, and perhaps the way the game is coded or otherwise handled makes this a daunting, if not impossible task, but that isn't going to stop me from dreaming. There are certain hairstyles I love that just clip with certain glamour sets I love, I don't have a universal hairstyle that works with everything. ;_;

That was really hard to pick just one, honestly I want all of them. :X

I want them to unlock all features within a particular race. With things unlocked, you can mix and match the various noses, eyes, mouths that are each currently locked to specific faces. It would go quite a long-way for letting us create more unique looking characters.

A couple of my hack-jobs from the last time this came up :)
https://i.imgur.com/yDBgHQN.png
https://i.imgur.com/lyXAcRD.png

As far as the butt thing goes - I'd be happy if they just gave us a tiny bit more roundness to balance out the rest of the figure. Doesn't need to be huge butts (although a slider would be nice) - just so my poor femroe doesn't look like a lego character in tight pants. As it is now except maybe female aura and lala the characters are just look oddly proportioned when it comes to butts.

I have a theory that a lot of the body piece design has been developed around disguising that we have no butts. All the attached belts stuff, skirts, frills etc.

I'd also like more tattoo options, body scars, better long hair up-dos (to reduce clipping but still be long hair), maybe even silly things like body glitter and nose rings.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Hmm, I think the Miqo'te ears are technically part of the hairstyle at a programming level?....

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I don't know if this is exactly the case as the ears have individual animations. It's just a tacked on model just like different tail types. It's just that some of the older options (all the 1.0 and 2.0 cuts) have different textures, different fuzz details, and on some male cuts, spots.

The deal I have is you can tell SE eventually started just taking on the same two sets of ears and tacking them on every hairstyle. We haven't seen a Miqo'te custom variant haircut in ages outside the odango buns in ages.


Thing is, we DO have an example of the ear model getting swapped out with the Werewolf Ears.

https://img.finalfantasyxiv.com/lds/...1016_me_02.png

I guess SE's choice to avoid ear customization on Miqo'te may come down to reanimating them for a whole bunch of emotes.


Otherwise, I know the explanation behind Au Ra horns was something to do with datacap thresholds on avatars. For some reason, SE decided horns options were a less important option than like, eyes rings (??), so they locked horns to the face choice.

Speaking of Miqo'te, they have a similar but far less pronounced issue with facial striping.

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Originally Posted by ErryK

I voted other, because I want body hair.

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Omg if that happened I'd faint and drool. @.@

From another thread: I think the issue here is a breakdown of communication.

Example: We want more customization options but you claim the issue is data, engine, and development time. Why is it then keep getting new gear, hair options, emotes, ect...?

I feel what is being asked for is not truly being conveyed to the dev team, this further hindered by our lack of complete understanding of how the system works in regard to above mentioned issues.

From my limited understanding (possibly wrong), I think the request then needs to be changed to fit what would be possible gives the limitations of the program.

In this sense my request would be more faces.

The idea here is to merge the features from one races face options to another to create the options many people have been asking for.

Example: I would like the inclusion of these existing face features of male races to be added to to all male characters in the form of new faces.

https://i.imgur.com/KmE5YZ1.png

https://i.imgur.com/oNdZce1.png

https://i.imgur.com/6HDL0Mc.png

[https://i.imgur.com/agwsp35.png

By adding these options, i feel it would not only serve to address a major request by the fan base, but also encourage the the reuse of already existing assets in new and appreciated ways.
I do not deny this would take a substantial amount of work, however i feel it would time well spent in the long run.