We have Bust sliders, but no Butt sliders? What’s the difference?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I’m new to posting on these forums compared to the rest of you who have been posting for years, so I apologize if I’m out of the loop. But why does Square Enix feel the need to give us insane Bust customization for females but no lower body customization?

I understand there are better things they can focus their resources and time on, I was just wondering. In my opinion, there is absolutely no logical reason to have one over the other, unless they personally prefer bust over lower body, haha. At the end of the day, both attributes are purely sex appeal.

I also see no reason why males don’t have a bust customization. For example, having a more muscular chest. Is there a reason for any of this?

Again, this isn’t an inflammatory thread to spark fights so please don’t fight with each other. Thanks.

I wouldn't say there is "insane" bust customization. Most gear changes your bust size to the piece of gear being equipped. And most gear covers the butt with some sort of skirt or cape these days. Even if you did get a butt slider, it would just get adjusted into the gear anyway.

[Iscah]

Most gear changes your bust size to the piece of gear being equipped.

Has this been proven - eg. by looking at the same gear equipped by characters of the same race but different bust settings?

I find it hard to believe that the majority of gear looks the same on all characters as does on my zero-bust Midlander. Certainly some things are flatter than others, but either the game is very inconsistent with what things are adjustable, or people just see that "max setting on this gear piece" doesn't look the same as max setting on their starter gear, and assume there's no customisation going on at all.



But yes, unless they're going to go back and add adjustable sizing to every piece of leg gear (and make sure it doesn't clash with every single piece of body gear by clipping through in awkward ways) then there is simply a practical barrier to ever implementing a "butt slider". Especially considering the issues we're already aware of with Hrothgar and Viera not even having all headgear adjusted for them, at least within an ideal timeframe, and the recent Letter from the Producer talking about how having more character models to manage increases their workload and makes it harder to stay on schedule - and adding another slider would definitely do that.

There's also the issue of character data size - every customisation option adds more data to the character, and it has to be transmitted to every other player. If they decided they could increase the size slightly and add in some more customisation options, we could get another slider, but that same data could be used to add new face settings that would probably have a bigger impact on character design.