Feature Request: Character Dominant Hand - Character Handedness

I need an ice pack.

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Originally Posted by dspguy

It appears that all FFXIV characters are right handed. It would be great to see the ability to set character handedness. I'd like to believe that the positioning of weapons, shields, tools, etc could be mirrored to the other side without too much of an undue burden on the development team.

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as a left-handed in real life, i always wanted the option to choose left or right handed in the game, but meh lazy developers for a lazy indie company i guess /s

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Originally Posted by OperaMorgana

as a left-handed in real life, i always wanted the option to choose left or right handed in the game, but meh lazy developers for a lazy indie company i guess /s

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Originally Posted by A_Complainer_Tommorow

as a person with large hands but short fingers whose ring fingers are shorter than their index fingers in real life, I've also wanted the option to choose hand size and finger lengths in the game, but meh lazy developers for a lazy indie company i guess /s

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Originally Posted by A_Complainer_NextWeek

As a person who is 6' 7" tall but has a 30" inseam in real life, I've also wanted the option to choose shorter limbs relative to character height in the game, but meh lazy developers for a lazy indie company I guess /s

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And so on. Both examples are people I know in RL, BTW.

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

And so on. Both examples are people I know in RL, BTW.

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Left-handedness is slightly more common (and less detailed) than precise adjustments to body proportions.

That said, it would still be more data that needs to be stored and transmitted about our character to every other character, so it can't just be added without adding to the load of data transfer – so if they ever did add the option, it would be theoretically "instead" of something else they could do with the same data.

As much as I like having the option to pick handedness on characters (being left-handed myself) I would prefer to get things like more face customisation options or gear dye channels if they ever added more character data.

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Originally Posted by Silverbane

And so on. Both examples are people I know in RL, BTW.

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There's an important distinction here though.

As much as buttsliders are a meme, people have been asking for that and other character customisation pretty much since launch. We're not getting it likely because it's almost certainly going to require a full extra data array added to our characters, if SE were willing to do that, the data space would likely be far better off being used as a true glamour log. The current plate system suggests that they are not.

By comparison, left handedness is a simple binary switch and I'd be very surprised if there wasn't room to stuff it in an existing array.

By your logic SE shouldn't have added the Regalia because people would started complaining that it doesn't have realistic driving physics?

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Originally Posted by OperaMorgana

as a left-handed in real life, i always wanted the option to choose left or right handed in the game, but meh lazy developers for a lazy indie company i guess /s

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I'm sure it has much to do with pure laziness and SE not using their money correctly to fulfill your personal wishes, and not with the fact that wasting their funds on tons of insignificant, petty whims such as this one woudln't be very smart!

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Originally Posted by Clover_Blake

I'm sure it has much to do with pure laziness and SE not using their money correctly to fulfill your personal wishes, and not with the fact that wasting their funds on tons of insignificant, petty whims such as this one woudln't be very smart!

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so crypto is where they smartly spend their money?