This feature is becoming a standard in mmo's, players care alot about how thier character looks, and it foverer keeps old content usefull. It's a huge thing that's not only proven to work but is very easy to implement. I'm also getting very tired of seeing everyone running around in the same gear, why bother with a character creation when we all look the same with gear on?

It's been a requested feature for ffxiv nearly a year ago, and no talk about it yet from SE. Would really like a response to insure that it will be available in 2.0 in order to make ffxiv a competitive and modern mmo.