Char creation disappointment?

[Fadigre]

I agree with you, Ladon. Enix do have limited resources and it would be a dreadful shame if game content suffered as a result of an improved creation system.

However with that being said, one of the main pulls of FF MMOs is the attachment to your character. Many players don't treat their presence in game as a visual avatar, they treat like they would their own physical body! This is a big pull that Enix has a monopoly over due to only needing one character to experience multiple aspects and the entirety of the game's story line.
Hell, I imagine players make their own stories through their intense experiences through party-based content! Aren't Enix really proud of their storylines? I'm sure they're always trying to push them on us and draw in an audience that would appreciate them to their fullest.

Whilst stories don't particular matter to me, my appearance outside of the game does. Why would this change for me in-game, too? I'd like to point out that this comment is horribly contradictive in regards to my last comment!

Finally... we're in 2012.
5-6 styles to choose from for your hair is dripping with early 2000 nostalgia. In a bad way. Remember the year 2000 was a decade ago now!

I'm sure there's a balance out there between quality in both game and creation.

Kinda that's all and good, but actual new hair styles would be great
like i said before all the extra features in customization in the char creation are fine - nothing wrong with them, just after the hair. Hopefully though Rukkirii's comment about more customization in later builds cover default hair styles. Thanks Fadigre ('w')

Oh, uhm... you're welcome!

[Einherei]

Ladon like i said in OP, i understand that the dev team is busy with Alpha and server testing and launch and they wont have time for this sort of thing, but it'd be great if they can look into it further down the road, also i'm not interested in any other MMO i'm only interested in FF/XI/XIV by SE.

[Kio]

It's funny, even though I had played XI for years it never bothered me during that period, but now looking back at the character models they all look really creepy.

I too was disappointed not to see more variety in the character creator but I think the slim pickings is probably due to it being alpha. Maybe they only ported over existing data to keep the download small, they're not quite ready to publish the new models, or it was just too much bulk to bother with just for server stress tests.

So not having much at this point doesn't surprise me, but I'd be pretty let down if there isn't a plethora of hair styles to choose from come retail launch.
You can spend eons crafting the slope of your characters chin or the shape of their nose to be just right but the only thing really anyone will ever recognize you besides your general race/gender is your hair. If they want to expand uniqueness amongst player characters it really starts there.

[Tonkra]

2-4 more hairstyles at least for the races would be great. this is just the standard which we had in 1.0.

but i like the appearance of the char editor itself.. and the music.

[Ralliare]

I could swear they said we were getting new hairstyles in ARR...

[Suraj]

I'm really glad about the new options and I hope they add more down the road.

I just wish they'd have shown Moonkeepers! Very curious to know if they added more variety of skin colours as currently they're all very simillar. (And from what I see of Sunseekers, it seems to be basically what we have now)

[Elexia]

Nothing to be disappointed about it really unless you made the mistake of comparing the creator to other game's rather than realizing that they did say it will be revamped but they no way stated it will have a ton of options. The only "new hairs" would most likely be the old concept of using other race's hairstyles on a different one that never got implemented.

Also yes I agree with this:

No offense here, but I really hope the developers don't get hung up on this sort of thing. It's like every piece of information that comes out of ARR results in the most nitpicking suggestions from some people in the community.

So they can implemented the "hundreds of hairstyles!" I guarantee they made a sacrifice to something in order to appease someone that will only care for their hair selection for a day before no longer noticing it while playing.

[AlexNiculaie]

I could swear they said we were getting new hairstyles in ARR...

They did. They also stated that all options are not available in the alpha test, but would be later.

[Roaran]

What is needed is differentiation between characters. The best way to attain this is to simply have more options for the most noticeable features of characters. I think Race and Hairstyle are probably the most distinguishing features of a character, and because it requires so much more to develop a race it is simply better to pour those resources into hairstyles. So, Square Enix has said they were going to develop more, how much more though? I did like to see all the options for voices, that is a huge bonus. An increase in face types/features(not tattoos, but actual shapes of facial features) would go a long way.

[Mug]

They should at the very least give lalafell more hairstyles...