Beards, BIG BEARDS.. Please.

The best bet I have for satisfying my beardly ways and desires is a crazy Santa'esque glamour item. Can we PLEASE(!?) add wicked-awesome beards to the crazy haircut dude? Of all the things I enjoy in life, one, greatly, is having a strong and thick beard. This would complete my image in-game. How has this not yet been a focus?

Yes, please

Absolutely yes.

Its not a focus because there are more important things to worry about.

But yes, more facial options would be pretty neat for male avatars

Out of all the focal points in the game, appearance is huge. A beard is a grand extension of one's being.

When most people request beards its for the stubble variety which Yoshi has addressed before. In short there are some technical challenges in making stubble look good on all the different facial types; they'd almost have to do a beard for each facial type and they don't really have the back end space for all of that.

I'd imagine the database space limitations they're working under would apply to big beards as well but it would probably be easier to do a "one size fits all" beard with a big beard.

But I suspect this is way down on their priority list; its been an oft requested feature since HW and the devs know of it yet nothing has happened.

Sure, more customization options are good.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

When most people request beards its for the stubble variety which Yoshi has addressed before. In short there are some technical challenges in making stubble look good on all the different facial types; they'd almost have to do a beard for each facial type and they don't really have the back end space for all of that.

I'd imagine the database space limitations they're working under would apply to big beards as well but it would probably be easier to do a "one size fits all" beard with a big beard.

But I suspect this is way down on their priority list; its been an oft requested feature since HW and the devs know of it yet nothing has happened.

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Considering there's a "helmet" that's just a big beard... I call foul that they couldn't implement it.

As a proud owner of a large beard I'd love it if my in game character could get in on the fun too ~

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Originally Posted by wereotter

Considering there's a "helmet" that's just a big beard... I call foul that they couldn't implement it.

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Implementing it so it attaches to the character's face and moves with their facial expressions is going to be a very different business to sticking a static "fake beard" to the front of the face.

I think that's why it only gets implemented as a face setting option (unique to the individual build) and not even attached to hairstyles.


(Ten gil on "implementing the stubbled WoL from the trailer" involving giving us that specific male Midlander face as a player option, not giving it to every model.)

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Originally Posted by Andrieux

How has this not yet been a focus?

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Yoshida never realized that people play genders other than female. Also, their crap engine.

Give me beards, or give me death.

Beards for male Viera, too. I wanna make an old man Viera.

More customization in general. More open customization, meaning - wearing lipstick, blush and eyeshadow with a face sticker at the same time- and not one or the other.
Beards definitely, maybe just for the more humanoid races like Elezen and Hyur. Don't think Au'ra male can have facial hair, can they? I've never looked. If so, they don't seem a beardy/facial hair type but I also do not like Au'ra so I'm biased.
Chest and body hair- like, seriously. I guess the WoL is a fan of waxing?
More hairstyle variants and diversity- hell, a new hairstyle design contest would really help (I hope, assuming that not every new hairstyle is just a slight variation of what we are dealing with now). Right now, every hairstyle is either a hime bang/anime protag, toddler looking side ponytail/pigtail or a mullet. Or a combo of all of them at once.
Some shading on the models- like the detailed look of the FFXII characters if that makes sense?
In FFXIV every character complexion is so flat looking, with 1 base complexion, dull white bread- even if you choose a darker option- it's dull.

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Originally Posted by juicybug

Beards definitely, maybe just for the more humanoid races like Elezen and Hyur. Don't think Au'ra male can have facial hair, can they? I've never looked. If so, they don't seem a beardy/facial hair type but I also do not like Au'ra so I'm biased.

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Au Ra scales seem to replace beards - covering the same bits of the face, and "realistically" hair and scales are both made of the same basic stuff.

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Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer

But I suspect this is way down on their priority list; its been an oft requested feature since HW and the devs know of it yet nothing has happened.

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Yeah all the customizations like scars are no racial thing yet they had to spread it accross all the races because of the limitations or lack of time. Even beards are in "parts" in the Hyur/Elezen/Roe faces, if you fuse some of them you get a full beard closer to the subtle everyone asks for.

Agreed that better facial hair options would be nice. Would want to make a cavaeman-esque character or a 100+ year old Wizard who has never shaved but it's simply not possible with current facial hair settings.

The moment i saw the title i remembered this:

https://youtu.be/Itn5vRrK_lQ

I'll take a beard.

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

Its not a focus because there are more important things to worry about.

But yes, more facial options would be pretty neat for male avatars

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If they can devote time to creating a missing gender after telling people we may not get one yet caved. They have time to create aesthetic options that a larger portion of the playerbase could use.

Big 'yes please' from me.
It's the #1 item on my customization wishlist for FFXIV closely followed by getting rid of gender locks on stuff.

If they added some actual beards to all the male options (or approriate equivalents in case of aura), I'd buy a fantasia in a heart beat.

don't really mind if some nice long braided beard might end up clipping into clothes, hair already does that half the time anyways.

Just give us something actually worthy of the term 'beard' not just some short fuzzy stuff not even reachign past a characters neck.