Dawntrail character graphics update - opinions, requests and discussion megathread

[MoonNoire]

Requesting a toggle or an option for the pre-7.2 face texture of Hellsguard Roegadyn without the darker smudge or ash mark, the Dawntrail skin made before this current patch.

While it's great that some of the Roes that wanted it got what they've been asking for, I liked the look before 7.2 and now I'm stuck with something I didn't want to begin with. After 9 months of happily playing with the updated face, I feel like it's unreasonable to have this forced in this manner instead of having an option for the mark as it's a noticeable change. Since the work is already done the old skin texture could be put in facial features as a toggle, which is all I'm asking for and not a reversion of the work already done in this patch.

While what you're asking is completely reasonable, you are asking this of a development team that had to duplicate a midlander male face as an option just to bake a stubble onto it. Want to shave? That'll be 7€. The foundation upon which the game is built is so unfathomably bad that they believe they cannot (I'm more inclined to believe they simply don't want to) add any more customization options to existing faces. Highlander men have been begging for eyebrows on their hands and knees for a decade. Fashionistas have been requesting RGB-based color pickers for hair, eyes and skin for almost as long as the game's been running. The excuse has always been the same: "processing limits", as though games far older than FFXIV 1.0 didn't have those.

As if this game isn't among Square-Enix's top selling, highest grossing titles. They behave like an indie studio that's too small to make these changes, while swimming in money. In many ways, CBU3 reminds me of Game Freak.

These "fixes" are not geared toward actually fixing characters. Otherwise, we would have seen far, far bigger changes in the time Dawntrail's been out. They're geared towards making you think they care so you stay subbed for at least the entire Dawntrail patch cycle.

Do I sound angry? Yes, but that's because I love this game to bits. I know they can do better because the talent isn't gone. I just don't know why they're taking so long to correct their mistakes - mistakes that go beyond the scope of this thread.

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While what you're asking is completely reasonable, you are asking this of a development team that had to duplicate a midlander male face as an option just to bake a stubble onto it. Want to shave? That'll be 7€. The foundation upon which the game is built is so unfathomably bad that they believe they cannot (I'm more inclined to believe they simply don't want to) add any more customization options to existing faces. Highlander men have been begging for eyebrows on their hands and knees for a decade. Fashionistas have been requesting RGB-based color pickers for hair, eyes and skin for almost as long as the game's been running. The excuse has always been the same: "processing limits", as though games far older than FFXIV 1.0 didn't have those.

As if this game isn't among Square-Enix's top selling, highest grossing titles. They behave like an indie studio that's too small to make these changes, while swimming in money. In many ways, CBU3 reminds me of Game Freak.

These "fixes" are not geared toward actually fixing characters. Otherwise, we would have seen far, far bigger changes in the time Dawntrail's been out. They're geared towards making you think they care so you stay subbed for at least the entire Dawntrail patch cycle.

Do I sound angry? Yes, but that's because I love this game to bits. I know they can do better because the talent isn't gone. I just don't know why they're taking so long to correct their mistakes - mistakes that go beyond the scope of this thread.

You're preaching to the choir, the whole PS3 limitations spiel should've died with that system. With Dawntrail I had a little bit of optimism that they would put more into this game and I liked the initial graphics update, even if it's unfinished.

But I'm used to being disappointed by CBU3, half the gear that's hastily modeled for Roes is a testament to this, but they're also barely played so I almost find that understandable. But now I'm unhappy about something so trivial that any other studio would've fixed this in way less than a day, a texture already made and put in a menu. Knowing how they operate it probably will never get addressed but I had to ask anyway since I dislike this change.