NPC faces on Mog Station

[Mahrze]

There are quite a few things that need overhauled, and the source code is probably one of them. It'd take a ton of work and time, but it'd pay off well. SE has the money, resources and time I'm sure, they just choose not to give Yoshi and the devs what they need. But...if they were to somehow receive such aid, such a massive overhaul of the game's systems would probably be part of an expansion. If they were smart though, they'd do it a little bit at a time, and do some of the "bigger" fixes for major content patches. At some point something will give, just a matter of when really.

With Yoshi's promotion to Chairman in the board of directors, this should be less of an excuse and more of a catalyst.


I'm actually interested on how many things have been shot down due to "x limitations" that really stem from old code. Or things that were "please look forward to it" 4 years ago (beards and Mnk Weapon shifting to tattoos)

[Reinha]

Butt sliders or new faces, you cant have both

Ahh this is a tough one but I would choose butts. D:

[Mahrze]

Ahh this is a tough one but I would choose butts. D:

I mean, XV's comrades has a butt slider in the character creation menu; in fact, the overall options are really good (body and face customizations are pretty solid, hairstyles are the only downpart imo, but XIV already has that base covered) they could clearly achieve something if they bring the best of XV's comrades to XIV.

[Yasmina]

I do not agree that they give us the faces of the npc directly. What they should do is add the pieces they use to create their faces separately to choose and mix with the ones we already have. The other option is to place new options of faces and personalization.

I dislike the fact that they are only putting 2 hairstyles in each patch, when before they added 4 or 5, to where was that work/workers re-directed?

It would have been nice to add fewer hairstyles, but to put more pieces for faces in each race in each patch, and we would have a good amount if they had done so from the beginning.

[Ametrine]

No.

The moment they start individually adding customization options to the base character is the moment SE grossly crosses the line. While I advocate more races and more faces, that should be rolled into major updates, ala expansions.

Also, there has been a distinct lack of unique NPCs for certain races. We have had literally zero unique Roagadyn NPC faces and hair styles. Moenbryda was only unique in that she was peachy skinned.

Plus, why can't important NPCs remain unique and identifiable? Why do you think we saw every main character get a redesign over 3.0?

[Shouko]

We have lots of hairstyles and things like that but we really lack faces, especially the Au Ra. I mean if you want a certain horn style you will have one face for that. Sometimes when I look through the forums I see quite some twins to my character because of the face. So yes more options there would be nice. (And ingame and not with mog station please..)

Because most people's characters, look like clones of eachother. Adding NPC faces as optional on Mogstation would at least kill the popular flavor of the day favorite facial clones among the current four options we have for each race. At least a little bit so we'd stop seeing it as much and actually have something new to look at. XD

I was kidding but I don't think we should have NPC faces, I mean most of them are fairly plain as it is. I do agree we should get more options for character customization beyond just a few new hairstyles here n there.

[killstein]

absolutely not, not on mogstation or anywhere for that matter. i agree that unique and major npcs should stay unique in that they can't be recreated in the cc (sans the scions). which is honestly why i was surpised that estinien, of all major npcs during 3.x, wasn't given a unique face, but instead a hairstyle. (this makes me think they won't release his hair simply due to the fact it takes 2 minutes to get his face down...)

however, we're all desperate for new faces.... female elezen have a whopping two choices! one of them just doesn't have makeup. and if they can take the time to add stubble to nero and hien, i don't see why we can't have that option. :T

[Adventica6]

the main npcs on this game looks really better than our characters

Better than your character, not mine.

It's impolite to speak for others, especially in japan, maybe they look better than your character but not mine sorry.

[Vahlnir]

With Yoshi's promotion to Chairman in the board of directors, this should be less of an excuse and more of a catalyst.


I'm actually interested on how many things have been shot down due to "x limitations" that really stem from old code. Or things that were "please look forward to it" 4 years ago (beards and Mnk Weapon shifting to tattoos)

Time will tell as to how much say he does or doesn't have as a result of his promotion, but this is my hope as well. The reality of it is, things probably won't change until something drastic forces their hand (and I believe it will happen eventually), but one can still hope.

[Riardon]

It won't happen for many reasons.
NPCs need and have to stay unique.
If they add more face options in the Mog Station then the character customisation screen will also get an update with more faces as well since it's the same system.

Also stop asking for more things in the Mog Station. The wallet warrior mentality needs to die. Do something more useful in your life than begging a video game dev to give more items with money. You are already paying for this game.
This mentality is the reason paid DLCs and loot boxes exist. Stop it.