We keep getting hairstyles but almost nothing else.

[Valentine-R]

More hairstyles is great, because I enjoy seeing the hairstyle diversity.
BUT! They should also implement some buyable face paint styles, similar to the little bats from that one All Saints Wake event. Maybe they could add like eye-scars in the form of face paint or such.

[Vahlnir]

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Oh, I have no issue with how the game looks, it's pretty dang beautiful. The code itself is where it runs into problems. The game was built from scratch with the PS3 in mind, and despite the fact it's out of the picture...they haven't upgraded the core of things yet. They should, and here's hoping they do.

You clearly haven't tried Ixion though. Even PC players can experience lag to some degree, or as I said...experience some fps loss. At least 2-300 players in a small area makes things pretty difficult. Something like that is pretty hard for SE to fix no matter what they do (or don't do).

As to character detail...yeah, it's decent. But where they are severely lacking is character creation options.

[Ametrine]

Do you believe everything that's being said in this world?

Developers / Publishers will never ever say the truth about anything regarding finance.

Nah, the extra budget went to rendering Byakko's flawless, striped abs verses designing more hair styles per patch.

YMMV on whether this was the correct way to delegate the money.

[Ladygrilka]

You clearly haven't tried Ixion though. Even PC players can experience lag to some degree, or as I said...experience some fps loss. At least 2-300 players in a small area makes things pretty difficult. Something like that is pretty hard for SE to fix no matter what they do (or don't do).

I have Ixion mount since the begining of SB when we having multiple "Loch" instances, and for the engine preformance and lags... at this time my GF was playing the game on a i3 dual 2.8ghz 8go and 750ti she's never suffered lags... i dont know how many softs or service you run on your computer, but FFXIV is far to be a ressource killer

[RiyahArp]

Keep in mind that sometime we are more than 200 players on the same boss, like ixion or SB S rank

And when you get 200 players, even now, the game becomes insanely unplayable. Like not being able to target someone five feet next to you. Ixion when it first came out was so bad you had people dead that wouldn't physically even show up after the fate was over until the server recovered.

[Vahlnir]

And when you get 200 players, even now, the game becomes insanely unplayable. Like not being able to target someone five feet next to you. Ixion when it first came out was so bad you had people dead that wouldn't physically even show up after the fate was over until the server recovered.

Yep, exactly. The whole "lag doesn't happen for PC players, just consoles" thing simply doesn't apply.

[Tridus]

Hell, that happened to me on Ixion last night. Framerate and response were fine, because I'm now running on a high end gaming PC. But half my party was untargetable until they suddenly appeared next to me (and promptly disappeared again). The server was clearly struggling to keep up with seemingly half the online population being in one spot.

That's a known problem from a network communication PoV and given the amount of syncing the client and server are doing right now would require a major overhaul to fix... but damn, it was really jarring to be unable to heal someone I know is two feet away.

[Vejjiegirl]

I made a thread in the past about the sheer amount of hairstyles that were being added before PS3 was dropped.
There is a huge lack of features and things in a lot of races, female au ra being the worst for customization. (not counting elezen and the fact that female elezen has two face options that are identical to each other)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Customization
Sadly in a live letter when asked if we would get more customization they just said "no" but we will keep adding more hair.


Granted asking for a muscle slider was probably going to be turned down anyways since from my understanding muscle sliders share the same space as ear size, tail size, and it would probably cost more to
try and separate them rather than making a hairstyle. (not sure if this is the case but I do know certain things share the same slots, for example they said in an old live letter au ra ran out of slots which is why they couldn't add horn selection)

It would be really nice if they took a break from hairstyles in a patch and gave some more jaws, noses etc to races that lack them. or even a 4th head for poor female elezen, they have two face options that look exactly the same, except one has lipstick and the other does not.

At this point I don't even know if adding a new race would even be possible, since au ra hit the limit. Would the next race have as few options as au ra when compared to other races?
If you compare Female au ra to Female Miqo'te you will see the customization for Miqo'te is vastly superior

[Penthea]

I'm personally glad we get new hairstyles very often. I used to play WoW and literally years passed without getting any new cosmetic options for existing races.

I'd love new facepaint and scars though. Not going to complain about hairstyles, but some extra variety would be nice.

[Terrini]

Getting new face paint options would be pretty nice thought... like more eyebrow type face paints for Highlander Hyur males? Or scar face paints like someone else mentioned. I use a Tattoo on my Highlander Female to look like a nose scar. It would be nice to have more "tattoo" options because they can easily be added like Face paints and you can arrange for having multiple face markings with more tattoo options added. Why are they so limited and race specific anyway? they honestly do not make much sense