Could we get an expansion to free Character customization in the near future?

With WoW making character appearance customization, including gender, free, (outside of race), could we get a similar option?

Fantasia would still have its uses as it would be the way to change your player race.

But could we get gender, physical traits like height, horns for Au'ra, tail sizes.etc able to be modified for free?

So, could we get an expansion to the free customization?

Edit: By free I mean not-real money, gil and poetics.etc can be used as a cost to do these customizations, but that's aside from the main point.

Free? No as that would put the Aesthetician out of a job.

The specific traits you want to become free to be customised are pretty major changes - not like a haircut or slapping on lipstick. So sorry but have to say nope leave it as it is thanks.

More options is apparently one of those things held back by engine limitations (each race can only have so many options).

Being able to change everything within race for free at Jandelaine would be lovely, though.

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Originally Posted by Bearded

Free? No as that would put the Aesthetician out of a job.

The specific traits you want to become free to be customised are pretty major changes - not like a haircut or slapping on lipstick. So sorry but have to say nope leave it as it is thanks.

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How would it put him out of the job? Wouldn't the free customizations be in game at the Aesthetician? I always imagined they would be.

If anything that would mean people using the Aesthetician way more often.

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

Being able to change everything within race for free at Jandelaine would be lovely, though.

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But - he has expenses to cover!

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Originally Posted by Bearded

But - he has expenses to cover!

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Real life money free. Not in game free.

He can take my gil. He can take allll my gil. Just let me change eye color sometimes, Jandelaine!

I feel like they could tag on skin colour, as well as Hrothgar hair styles, to the aesthetician, and maybe even an option to change your voice considering you can't fully preview that in the character creator. Basically just keeping your race and clan, height, and gender as the fixed things you'd need a fantasia for.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

I feel like they could tag on skin colour, as well as Hrothgar hair styles, to the aesthetician, and maybe even an option to change your voice considering you can't fully preview that in the character creator. Basically just keeping your race and clan, height, and gender as the fixed things you'd need a fantasia for.

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I think locking into race, gender and anything with a slider is fair but I do also see where OP is coming from.

WoW had a limited character creator too because of its limitations but managed to find ways to improve it in Shadowlands and in Shadowlands they are pretty much dropping the "Recustomization" character service entirely and making it available in game. If you want to change name or race that will cost you but everything within your race can be changed at the stylists, including gender.

I'd be cool with them expanding the aethstician to include more options. Really I wouldn't have a problem with it if they just made everything except race changable. I doubt it will happen though, I don't think they'll want to cut back on fantasia sales. Then again I wouldn't have expected Blizzard to cut back on character recustomization feature fees either so who knows.

I support this.

Nothing hurts more than having picked the wrong eye color and thinking "do I really have to spend 10$ just for this?"

Some clarification on what I mean by "free" on customization.

I mean real money, not gil or tombstones.

They could make Gender Changing cost things like Poetics or a lot of gil when using Jandelaine's services, but the point is that it wouldn't cost real money.

Real money would be used to change race, name.etc

While I agree that it'd be nice to see things like eye color and face and such changeable from the aesthetician (especially for viera/hrothgar) gender is probably a bigger deal in this game than in WoW. In XIV a lot more things are gender specific and it may not be as easy to change that on the fly. A fantasia at east makes you think twice about switching first.

It could just unequip female-only things or remove glamors on things like that how the game auto-unequips gear when changing classes/jobs though.

There aren't too many reasons to not have that be a choice outside of "Fantasia", which WoW did it and FFXIV can do the same and have Fantasia be for full character rerolls (names, deities, race.etc)

You know what? I think SE could add it in but really expensive. Like 50mil+ plus the aestheticism could be like 25-50k just for an added Gil sink.

Well, maybe it is either 50k Gil for Gender (The most expensive change) or make it cost tombstones (Poetics being the highest tombstone, Weekly-capped being the lowest cost)

Skin, voice, and eyes are the three I could see being the most legitimate to request. I can remember years ago picking a voice with TERRIBLE battle grunts that always stood out over the sound effects of the moves I was using. Ended up spending an additional $10 after the change to again change the voice (after looking up the sounds the voices make on YouTube)

Skin and eyes seem minor enough that it should be an easy option, and important for Hrothgar where their "skin" color is half of their hair color.

I would like an expansion of character customization. Period.

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If you buy a fantasia, you should be able to unlock all customizations of the class you go to and revert back the other classes you unlocked with said fantasia. The in-game aesthetician could charge the normal hairstyle fee for hairstyles, and another fee for other things. Whether you have to logout or not is up to the game engine but I think that more people would buy fantasias if you could unlock other races and customize them whenever. SE might have some dubious reason why it would be cost prohibitive for them though.

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Originally Posted by Hazama999

I would like an expansion of character customization. Period.

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More everything would be nice