Moon Miqo'te Face 4 feedback

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Huh...that does make sense though I'd love to see it if you wouldn't mind drawing it. I tried drawing lines over my character but I'm not skilled enough at anatomy to communicate how I feel. I'm going to try and fight with photoshop, my hand is really unsteady and I struggle to make straight lines along faces without them turning into a sketchy disaster

Sure I'll give it a try. Hopefully this works?

You can see the nostrils are lower, the nose is overall straighter, the tip is flatter and the bridge is more shallow, closer in toward the eyes. They seem like minor changes but stuff like this adds up when everything on the face gets this much change.

There's alot that does look better, so you are right- but with some of the updates, has been an erasure of details that made the faces unique or presets stand out originally- and those unique features could absolutely still be added with small texture updates in the future

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My miqo still looks like the same, but some nice details that were originally there, are gone. Like the lip gap in face #4- it was a really cute feature that we're bummed is gone in the benchmark.
Anyways, here's the thread about skin textures for anyone curious! It goes into better detail.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...y-is-overtuned

This is absolutely the crux of my concern. Details that made the faces feel unique have been lost and I would really really really really love if they were restored. Out of all the things I highlighted in my breakdown graphic, the wispy and darker brows, the thinner more natural eyelashes, and lip gap are the major things that my face lost which make me feel like my character has lost their specialness. If those three things were still there I would not feel as bad about the rest of the features looking slightly different. That's the opposite of what the dev team said they wanted. It feels like many of these changes were in service of making the character look more feminine rather than simply higher quality. I don't want that sort of change forced on me. If I wanted that, I would have chosen any of the 3 other faces, or 4 from the other subrace that look more feminine.

I think it's unlikely that I get those things back but I'm going to make noise anyway because it's very important to me and my enjoyment of the game and it doesn't hurt anyone for me to do so.