Quote Originally Posted by kikix12 View Post
I'm sorry, but though I'd appreciate more options here or there, I also disagree with this statement a lot.

Most of games that have far greater amount of customization do so by means of sliders, usually. As an end result...many caricatures are made. If I had to make a choice between a game with very few options and a game where caricatures can be made and everything else is equal, you can be 100% certain that I will pick the fewer options. I cannot make the "best looking character", but then again, I won't be surrounded by horrid abominations that some players find entertaining.
The major reason why I completely turn off names of characters in every MMO I play (if possible) is because players choose stuff that doesn't sound remotely name-like in any language possible. IamSupaMan, IOwnYou, EatMyDust and similar stuff is not names. But names I can turn off...characters themselves I cannot.

A character creator that both gives a lot of freedom and prevents making of caricatures would be like making a game in itself. The amount of work that'd have to come into it would be immense. So since that's not a possibility...a game with creator that have more limited options is actually better than a game that gives free reign. And this is also a reason that the developers of FFXIV don't see significant changes to the creator as high in priority list. They don't want these ridiculous designs either, something they DID actually state themselves, for the immersion breaking nature of that.
This particular thread was more focused on providing more ethnic looking options. New faces/facial features aren't going to hurt anyone, and more options in this manner would only be a plus (assuming the servers can survive). Going through this thread, you'll find several people who seem adamantly against adding new faces/features for reasons.

In regards to sliders, they can be tweaked to not allow extreme options. We already have a few sliders in this game and they're all tastefully done. As mentioned before GW2 utilizes the pre-set face options like XIV does, although they have sliders for eyes/noses/mouth/etc. You can make slightly questionable characters there if you try hard enough, but they are also far more toned down than other slider-games. That would be completely within the control of the developer.

But with all that said, I was just suggesting more faces/facial features. I don't see SE doing a complete overhaul of their character creator.