The sad state of customization

[Flaris]

Think about it this way, those online games with amazing character customization have it for a reason..in one way or another the gameplay is lacking, big surprise from a f2p huh? I played BnS for about 2 weeks and ultimately just stopped because I was so bored. Although we have limited character customization, we get exciting content and consistent patches.

[Naunet]

Think about it this way, those online games with amazing character customization have it for a reason..in one way or another the gameplay is lacking, big surprise from a f2p huh? I played BnS for about 2 weeks and ultimately just stopped because I was so bored. Although we have limited character customization, we get exciting content and consistent patches.

This is a false comparison. The consistency/frequency of patch updates after release have very little to do with resources that went on early in development of the original game for character creation.

[Berethos]

This is a false comparison. The consistency/frequency of patch updates after release have very little to do with resources that went on early in development of the original game for character creation.

While it is true that the current consistency/frequency has little to do with resources used in past development, it has quite a lot to do with what can be committed to current development regarding character creation.

Hell, even Blizzard can't get out from that particular limitation, that they only can only work on so much and adding in other things means taking away development from something (it's why it took them a couple years after first announcing that they were working on new character models to actually get them added, and part of being able to do that, at least according to interviews and such in the past few years, was because it was normally the development that would have gone into a new race or class, neither of which they added in the expansion that introduced new character models).

[Naunet]

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I would be 10000% cool with not getting a new race (or only getting one new job) if it meant we got a much improved character creation.

[Indefiinable]

The thing is it's not 4 faces. Each preset face can have different eyes, mouth, nose, eyebrows. Then factor in ear size, tattoos, scars, scales, makeup and all the various colours and you are actually looking at thousands of possible combinations.