Now that there will be no more Races, What should Square focus on now?

[Floortank]

I say this having a great love for FFXIV, but, the next thing they need to be working on is a new MMORPG. This one still has some good years ahead of it, but surely not another ten years.

[juicybug]

hopefully retouching the textures of armors/weapons and adding more detail/smoothing to pre SHB races skin. Fem Elezen have a face that looks like it has pock marks, Alphinaud and Alisaie's lips are pixelated even at a distance. hyur female lips also have the issue of looking pixelated and dont really take to the colors provided (pink lipstick turns into a weird peachy brown for example)
I hope they add more detail in terms of shading and coloring, maybe have them look a bit more like the style in FFXII which is 16 years old it still looks bounds and leaps better than the characters in XIV. Eyebrows for highlanders & roegadyn.

#1. More detailed skin and hair, smooth it all out. being white/pale = crayon looking flesh tone and really dated. it has no veins, no flush, nothing that gives any depth to a "living" character. Im a portrait artist as a hobby, and the first thing I noticed on day one was how vanilla and plain the skin texture and color was. dark skin tones are slightly better, but still, the palm of hands and soles of feet dont lighten even with the darkest setting.

#2 more options to CC. Add the ability to wear eyeshadow, blush together + a third option. Bigger beards for men, that have varying styles. A certain character in EW has a beard, a nice Lincoln style beard and one can only hope that this will be a thing, they did add the stubble for male Hyur but that's it, and it's an entirely new face slot. Make it so that hairbands are dyable, use the highlights slot for those hairstyles to allow for the dying of the hair accessory, rather than having 4 of the same hairstyle with 4 color hairbands.

#3 more hairstyles for Viera/Hrothgar. Specifically the mog station ones. Maybe add small hats that sit in between the ears or in the front. If the ears clip, then they clip. Fran's actual ponytail for Viera- it sits far out enough that it wouldn't clip too much. Even a short full version but hers is leaps better than the one that Viera currently have. Fran's has more waves and detail, and doesn't look like a cat's tail rubbed the wrong way.
Add Lyse, Yugiri, Hilda, Fran, Ashe, Penelo, Rikku, Quistis, Echidna, Basch, young Gabranth, LeAnn Caldwell hairstyles. Ran'Jit's earrings. Curly hair, normal buzz cut. No more mullets or spiky rpg hero hair.

and fix the muscle tone too, rn it looks like crumply playdough when set at max.

[juicybug]

Hroth and Viera need to be able to wear all hats and hairstyles.

Then focus on older races, give males more beard options, add other stuff like body tattoo etc.

we all know that any body tattoos in FFXIV would just be thick obnoxious 90s tribal that looks like it belongs on some middle aged stoner guy who smokes marlboro cigarettes and tans too much.

[HeyMcFly]

Improving character creator & updating it

Giving players access to all NPC hairstyles

Improving the housing system & it's aspects

As it stands, character creator is outdated & it shows. The lighting is misleading even with the different environments (but it's not something to really fret over). The hair and make-up colors aren't vivid and vary from race to race. Make-up and face-paint options need an update to color and have optional lipstick without gloss. I'd love more war paint and tattoo options and more make up options. Currently you can only wear 1 make up at a time, this needs to be updated so we can wear 2 or 3 choices at once.
Add false eyelashes that are dyeable- similar to how Viera have an eyelash option to thicken and even dye it- all races should have this.
Many female elezen faces do not stand out and look way too similar- as it was stated by someone else, the skin tones are very bland and so are the options to help them stand out.
Touch up's to every race is requested - to "beautify" them
Add eyebrows and beards, even if it means new faces.

Give Viera Access to more hats (like Matoya's witch hat, since it is a bonus paid for item)

The design team should add more hairstyles that NPCs have. People are always asking for them, there are many megathreads that have gone on for months if not years that show continuous support for adding Hilda's hairstyle or Hien, Emet-Selch and Cid's hair or Lyse's hairstyle just to name a few. It would be a breath of fresh air if the design team would finally start listening. Add more NPC hairstyles for player use.

Hairstyles should also be adjusted to fit the races better- if there are ear gaps due to the hair being on a human race, these should be covered for Viera and Miqo'te
It feels very out of touch when they added random hairstyles to Viera, instead of all of the paid for mogstation hairstyles first. (adding paid for hairstyles to me is common sense) There is a megathread ongoing that is sharing a massive distrust and distaste for this decision.

Housing interior needs an overhaul- as it stands you have to glitch items to get them to a certain place and a certain look and the interior limit is stressful if you take enjoyment in the ingame decorating- many requests for fixes have been made, all have been recently ignored (I do not use ignore lightly, peoples requests have not been acknowledged as of yet) This is reference to the DECORATING and item limit, not the lack of housing.
There is a fix however, but alas it is a third party tool that makes decorating miles easier- something XIV devs don't seem to care or are aware of. Atleast, that's how it feels.

I apologize if I come off antagonizing and demanding in my requests

[Kyrj]

I just want beards, that's it. I like how they added a new face for hyur and it has stubbly but we've yet to get an actual beard in game...

[Shin96]

Character creation if possible. More faces, hairstyles, etc.

More glamour too if they can do it.

[Phaty]

Allow us to place things on lofts in housing and place steps/stairs on anything that makes sense without having to do tedious glitch methods

[Raikai]

In my opinion, it should be improvements on character customization.

(I know there’s potentially female Hrothgar next but until I see it I won’t believe it)

- More face models across the board. 4 for most of the races is defnitely not enough... Especially when the details (nose, mouth, chin and eyes) impacts very little in the outcome.
- Cohesion with the current options. The example, is Miqo male eye tattooes... face 01 got them as an optional feature... face 04 got them as a permanent feature...Huh?
- Hair colors - merge the base color with the highlight colors, so we can pick any of those for either the base or the highlight. There is a big difference in the shades there.
- Break up options, like horns from Au Ra independent from the face.

I know it will probably require a lot of effort due to the engine/code, given that they had to copy paste one of the Hyur faces just to have it with a permanent stubble built in. This means that just adding more isn't as simple... almost as if the structure only allows you to toy with that set amount of options.

[Tatiana]

Expand customization of the newer races should be a top priority given their lack of hairstyles. For everyone in general I would like to see new face options for all of the races that have more truly distinctive features.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

More ethnic hairstyles please.

I have like - what - two?

Which is the afro and the dreadlocks; both styles being mediocre.

At the moment my characters just look like they have relaxers in their hair with how comically straight it is.