Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
Sure FFXIV might not have extremely detailed customization but it's still lightyears ahead of FFXI, so if anyone meets "their clone" in another player's character, that's not a limitation of the game's character creation, that's simply lazy players lacking imagination and creativity (too many Link cosplayers for one). And SE can't fix that I'm afraid.
I honestly can almost never distinguish players by looks alone unless they're using a very distinctive glam set-up and/or an unconventional skin tone/hair color combo.

Even just looking at people's avatars on the forums there's a very obvious preference for the "natural" tones in the latter regard.