Can we get normal manly males ?

[KizuyaKatogami]

That's a weird pattern. People unable to control themselves shrieking relentlessly about their..."fantasy" fulfillment and SE caves. Not a good look.

I pray that one day my constant outcries of us getting a male equivalent glam coffer to the 2b one are heard by SE and they pander to me like they do the rest of the community

[HeyMcFly]

+1 for Beards, thicker eyebrows & stubble options for male characters

More hairstyle variety
long hair
elaborate hair
short hair
sideswept Viera hair for female Miqo'te
- less anime protagonist hair

[Kacho_Nacho]

I'm back!

They say this cat BaconBits is a bad mother...
(Shut your mouth)
I'm talkin' 'bout BaconBits
(Then we can dig it)
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((You better post that screenshot in the Show Your Lalafell thread, BB. It rates 5 stars.))
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Anywho, I definitely get what the OP wants. FFXIV should have more options on the masculine side of the spectrum. By that, I mean things which Western players recognize as masculine.

I have no illusions this will be done by the time Edgewalker is released but I do feel the game needs an update to its character models and customization options.

[Kolsykol]

Lets get ready for the screechers!

I mean....
Try asking for more feminine options in other games and see how people react.

Every time I try and ask for it 99.9% of the comments are having a mental breakdown and accusing me of being a horny alt-righter...
Even just something as simple as asking for feminine fashion options gets people to jump to and start arguing about Tera styled armor even if I very specifically go out of my way to clarify that I am not talking about that.

And it definitely does seem to be more generally accepted to basically shit on and trash feminine characters than it is to even so much as ask for more feminine options.
Shitting on feminine characters and femininity in most places turns into a circlejerk while asking for it gets you mocked and stereotyped.

It's more so that the 2b "pants" exist in the first place. Its blatant and in my face, any player that uses them for glam immediately goes into the trash bin in my judgement.

Maybe just relax a little and let people have fun.
I really don't like '' hyper masculine characters '' at all, I honestly find them really off-putting.
The difference is that I don't feel the need to sit around shitting on or judge people for playing them or mogging their characters that way.

It kinda gets into what I said above and it's extremely tiresome.
Like no one is saying that you have to like something but this constant one-sided nature of people who dislike that stuff constantly complaining about it and throwing those complaints in other peoples faces is really annoying.
Especially when there's absolutely zero tolerance for people on the other end complaining about things they don't like and they get ridiculed and shouted down.

That's a weird pattern. People unable to control themselves shrieking relentlessly about their..."fantasy" fulfillment and SE caves. Not a good look.

It's a bad look that the developers listen?
Or are you just mad that they listened to people who you disagree with?
Do you not see how ridiculous that is, you seem to be a bit mad yourself that there are other people who exist and enjoy things that you don't enjoy.

[Jin-]

For beards i have seen everything, some girls love the stubble look and some don't. For the muscle think it's the same, some like a little and others prefer the most bulcky dudes they can find. Only the extremes are rare imo and it depends on where you live and who you encounter. So no it's not only a guy obsession.

Most healer gear looks bad on a masculine male and the most masculine you go the worse it gets. A lot of tank gear looks masculine/neutral but it's really rare to see something completly weird or ugly for females or show me. When females are put 1rst the poor masculine males loose almost always xD. At least the females can look cool even if it's tomboyish, but hey i like girls with a tomboyish look so yeah ...

Same thing for the femboys, even if you don't have your dream super feminine look. You won't look ugly.

I don't really think that is the games fault that female hardly ever look bad on any clothing like males do. Female body/form suits the most clothes out there even the masculine ones. Same cannot said about males.

I do agree that Nier raids lack masculine options but I think the tomestone is very masculine in SHB

[Juzjuzz]

It's not about fantasy or "normal" it's just " what i like " in the end.

The words might have been choosen badly but the message is that many guys feel like they are ignored or end with something weird.

I'll take the exemple of male au ra: why only very angry and smol eyebrows? Why always some weird thick scale beards? Why the weird body shapes?
It's even more sad when ppl who wanted daddy vieras were asking for this face with bunny ears and human-like beard : https://i.imgur.com/XZrX0BF.gif

I don't really think that is the games fault that female hardly ever look bad on any clothing like males do. Female body/form suits the most clothes out there even the masculine ones. Same cannot said about males.

I do agree that Nier raids lack masculine options but I think the tomestone is very masculine in SHB

Yeah it's not the games's fault if a female body fits more things.
Tometsone gear works well on guys yes but that looks great on both genders. When they make something very masculine, it doesn't look that great (and often it's just ugly) but for the feminine side they create realy cool things.

[SturmChurro]

I don't really think that is the games fault that female hardly ever look bad on any clothing like males do. Female body/form suits the most clothes out there even the masculine ones. Same cannot said about males.

I do agree that Nier raids lack masculine options but I think the tomestone is very masculine in SHB

I don't know about that being true in a general sense. There are plenty of outfits and gear that can look much better on males, or just as good on males and females. I main males in plenty of other games, because I like the options and the look of gear on them more. My characters in The Division 1 and 2 are both males, for example. It's just that in FFXIV specifically much of the gear in general does look pretty bad on them in comparison to female variants. A lot of times in this game, there's a piece of gear that almost looks nice on males. The general male design itself in this game leaves a lot to be desired on top of that.

[Swimcito]

He really has a face that would make some wow players happy lol

LOL, after hours with the character creator, i managed to change to an acceptable face... it was an Au Ra character ...

Although i am kind of not liking movement on humans though. Running looks good, but walking with "Skirted" armor, looks kinda whonky

I still think i would love having a full beard like Cid's

[HeyMcFly]

Here is a hairstyle/ facial hair request Megathread
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...al-Hair/page11

[SturmChurro]

Here is a hairstyle/ facial hair request Megathread
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...al-Hair/page11

Is it though? This thread has more posts even.