Beards, BIG BEARDS.. Please.

[Haruka_R]

How has this not yet been a focus?

Yoshida never realized that people play genders other than female. Also, their crap engine.

[BaconBits]

Give me beards, or give me death.

[Soge01]

Beards for male Viera, too. I wanna make an old man Viera.

[juicybug]

More customization in general. More open customization, meaning - wearing lipstick, blush and eyeshadow with a face sticker at the same time- and not one or the other.
Beards definitely, maybe just for the more humanoid races like Elezen and Hyur. Don't think Au'ra male can have facial hair, can they? I've never looked. If so, they don't seem a beardy/facial hair type but I also do not like Au'ra so I'm biased.
Chest and body hair- like, seriously. I guess the WoL is a fan of waxing?
More hairstyle variants and diversity- hell, a new hairstyle design contest would really help (I hope, assuming that not every new hairstyle is just a slight variation of what we are dealing with now). Right now, every hairstyle is either a hime bang/anime protag, toddler looking side ponytail/pigtail or a mullet. Or a combo of all of them at once.
Some shading on the models- like the detailed look of the FFXII characters if that makes sense?
In FFXIV every character complexion is so flat looking, with 1 base complexion, dull white bread- even if you choose a darker option- it's dull.

[Iscah]

Beards definitely, maybe just for the more humanoid races like Elezen and Hyur. Don't think Au'ra male can have facial hair, can they? I've never looked. If so, they don't seem a beardy/facial hair type but I also do not like Au'ra so I'm biased.

Au Ra scales seem to replace beards - covering the same bits of the face, and "realistically" hair and scales are both made of the same basic stuff.

[Juzjuzz]

But I suspect this is way down on their priority list; its been an oft requested feature since HW and the devs know of it yet nothing has happened.

Yeah all the customizations like scars are no racial thing yet they had to spread it accross all the races because of the limitations or lack of time. Even beards are in "parts" in the Hyur/Elezen/Roe faces, if you fuse some of them you get a full beard closer to the subtle everyone asks for.

[St0rmy]

Agreed that better facial hair options would be nice. Would want to make a cavaeman-esque character or a 100+ year old Wizard who has never shaved but it's simply not possible with current facial hair settings.

[Hausti]

The moment i saw the title i remembered this:

https://youtu.be/Itn5vRrK_lQ

[SuperAlex]

I'll take a beard.

[Awha]

Its not a focus because there are more important things to worry about.

But yes, more facial options would be pretty neat for male avatars

If they can devote time to creating a missing gender after telling people we may not get one yet caved. They have time to create aesthetic options that a larger portion of the playerbase could use.