Character Customization needs an update.

[Iscah]

am i taking crazy pills right now? who on earth on the dev team thought people would want to pay $10 to change your hairstyle/face in order to have customizable fur options? who asked for this???

WHY JAPANESE PEOPLE???

Perhaps they're not thinking of it in terms of people constantly changing hairstyles? Or they just decided that it was a necessary sacrifice to achieve their vision for the design, whether players would actually agree or not.

I can't know what the rest of the dev team think of altering their characters or not, but Yoshida's Lalafell character has always used the same hairstyle as far as I can recall, and doesn't even change her outfit.

And at a totally different level, for my own case, I rarely if ever change my characters' physical appearance. Their hairstyle is part of their appearance, and they look odd if it's different. If I had a Hrothgar character I wouldn't be remotely bothered by the lack of changeable hairstyles because I wouldn't feel the need to change it.

I guess it's more of the same mindset that goes into designing NPCs, or fixed player-characters in games that have them. Create a distinctive appearance and stick to it.

So perhaps they simply underestimated how strongly people feel about being able to change it regularly - or maybe the people that do that are a minority of players. I'd be interested to see a random poll of players about whether or how frequently they change their character's appearance.