Yoshida Addressing “Butt/Hip Sliders” and The Solution To Them:

[Nandrolone]

This argument blows me away.
It was not easy, but it was not possible either, not everything in the life has to be EASY to DO.

They have millions of people playing this game and millions upon millions of dollars of income which (they already shown with FFXV) they could just burn away and they dont even bother to work with their own engine effectively to cater to the needs of this community.
Other mmorpg companies would kill to have such large income and loyal fanbase, a game producer should have know it better, times are changing, games are developing and they are sitting with the same stuff over the years unchanged.

I absolutely agree with you, and sometimes I wonder if it’s actually not a matter of “can’t” but “won’t”. Regardless, it seems like they unfortunately won’t be giving us a butt slider ever, and while that sucks, at least they are open to giving us items that give us the appearance of a bigger butt. Am I right? I mean, it’s better than nothing I suppose.

[Nedkel]

This engine is actually hitting its age honestly. If anything I'd like them to ditch it for a newer one and stop worrying about in house engines. I don't think that's gonna happen soon as we had seen so many tech demos. Their modified Luminous engine was very practical considering the disasters they had to deal with in the past. However I think it would be better to move on to a new property in a few years or "start fresh" with a newer system since I can understand the headaches in trying to fix an older one.

That said, I do think this game has at least 2-3 xpacs in it for the future. Technology wise, it will be interesting to see if it can keep up with trends since we're already seeing shorter life cycles for game consoles (for example).

They could have upgraded it or changed it, it would solve so many problems if clothes adjust themselves to the body curvatures and movement like they do in modern engines.
It would not be only more efficient but decrease the work needed to create items and glamours in the long run, they could have saved a ton of money by simply changing the engine into newer one.

But welp we are stuck with what we have now.

[Xlantaa]

The obsession with butts around here is getting weird...

[QT_Melon]

They could have upgraded it or changed it, it would solve so many problems if clothes adjust themselves to the body curvatures and movement like they do in modern engines.
It would not be only more efficient but decrease the work needed to create items and glamours in the long run, they could have saved a ton of money by simply changing the engine into newer one.

But welp we are stuck with what we have now.

If it were that easy, KH3 (FF15) wouldn't have been so delayed, and for so long, and that's a solo game that doesn't need to worry about so many race customizations.

This game has ALREADY moved from 1 game engine to another, to do it again is a pain and big learning curve. Its obvious by looking at how long SOLO type games got delayed due to the move, and learning curves for staff to work with another engine.

The obsession with butts around here is getting weird...

This game introduced Breast sliders with jiggle physics. - 2.0 Most of this discussion was talking about technical limitations in general that affect character customization. Yes, it also includes why the rears can't be treated like the "breast slider" since it's noticeable.

Character customization is a big thing which a lot of sites review on other games, so yeah excuse people for wanting to talk about visual things that might scare people like butts :P

[Theodric]

Facial hair would involve changing the code on how the server recognizes a character. This is modeling an equipment slot. Not the same.

If they can find a workaround to modify the appearance of a character's rear through equipment, they can find a workaround to modify a character's facial hair through equipment as well. Though that'd require them to throw male characters a bone once in a while that isn't just appeasing the tiny minority who want gender locks on equipment to be removed.

As much as I like the game, the subtle disdain and dismissal of male characters is becoming tiresome.

[Lauront]

If they can find a workaround to modify the appearance of a character's rear through equipment, they can find a workaround to modify a character's facial hair through equipment as well. Though that'd require them to throw male characters a bone once in a while that isn't just appeasing the tiny minority who want gender locks on equipment to be removed.

As much as I like the game, the subtle disdain and dismissal of male characters is becoming tiresome.

I guess whoever they have working on this extremely niche stuff, that few players want/care about, isn't the same as whoever would work on the graphics... but that still suggests an issue of misplaced priorities.

Facial hair would involve changing the code on how the server recognizes a character. This is modeling an equipment slot. Not the same.

Don't really care. As Nedkel says, things don't have to be easy to carry them out. I'm sure they're perfectly competent at making their own excuses for things without needing the playerbase to do it for them.

This engine is actually hitting its age honestly. If anything I'd like them to ditch it for a newer one and stop worrying about in house engines. I don't think that's gonna happen soon as we had seen so many tech demos. Their modified Luminous engine was very practical considering the disasters they had to deal with in the past. However I think it would be better to move on to a new property in a few years or "start fresh" with a newer system since I can understand the headaches in trying to fix an older one.

That said, I do think this game has at least 2-3 xpacs in it for the future. Technology wise, it will be interesting to see if it can keep up with trends since we're already seeing shorter life cycles for game consoles (for example).

Agreed. There is a desire on their part to do it. At some point they're going to have to upgrade it, and especially the textures, or just face the fact that other, better looking games - not necessarily just MMOs - will be better at capturing players' attention than some game with extremely dated graphics and limited capabilities to work around it. The market ultimately cares little for excuses.

[Nandrolone]

If they can find a workaround to modify the appearance of a character's rear through equipment, they can find a workaround to modify a character's facial hair through equipment as well. Though that'd require them to throw male characters a bone once in a while that isn't just appeasing the tiny minority who want gender locks on equipment to be removed.

As much as I like the game, the subtle disdain and dismissal of male characters is becoming tiresome.

I agree with you so much. I do think it’s unfair that they worked on mostly female butts with the NieR bottoms, but said no mention of male character’s facial hair being altered with equipment. I think the more threads like this are brought up, the more it’s likely to happen. Since sliders can’t be done (technically they can, they just find it too complicated) then equipment that alters your physical attributes should be the solution.

There are just so many glamour issues and problems that they have not touched on yet. Butts only being the beginning. I mean, we still don’t know why Viera and Hrothgar have racial Hempen designs that are from Roes and Hyur Midlanders. Or if that means Hempen designs will finally be racial unlocked.

[Gemina]

This game introduced Breast sliders with jiggle physics. - 2.0 Most of this discussion was talking about technical limitations in general that affect character customization. Yes, it also includes why the rears can't be treated like the "breast slider" since it's noticeable.

Character customization is a big thing which a lot of sites review on other games, so yeah excuse people for wanting to talk about visual things that might scare people like butts :P

I don't think it's discussion about butt sliders and CC that weirds her out though. It's the obsession with butts on avatars. Two different vibes my friend.

[MikkoAkure]

If they can find a workaround to modify the appearance of a character's rear through equipment, they can find a workaround to modify a character's facial hair through equipment as well. Though that'd require them to throw male characters a bone once in a while that isn't just appeasing the tiny minority who want gender locks on equipment to be removed.

As much as I like the game, the subtle disdain and dismissal of male characters is becoming tiresome.

Beyond stuff like the weird mustache, Santa beard, and dwarf helmets, I’m not sure how feasible that is. Except for lalafell, all player models for women are generally the same but with the proportions tweaked a bit. However faces are more unique and some of them have different shapes so that’s 4+ models of a head piece that give scruff that they’d have to make for each race.

Then that’s not including the fact that it wouldn’t be able to be colored unless the color was tied to the head-piece color. And that it would look real weird on au ra with scale beards.

I’m not against increased facial hair options at all, but it’s not going to happen with equipment changes and it’s not going to happen in character creator until they revamp the coding of the game.

[Alucard135]

Facial hair would involve changing the code on how the server recognizes a character. This is modeling an equipment slot. Not the same.

But they can still make unique NPCs with unique parameters that the server still recognizes.