Shared hairstyles, new hairstyles and changing them

[Kallera]

Excuse my cynicism but isn't that the default SE response for everything, akin to the old "due to PS2 limitations..." then suddenly in 1-2 years time it will be inexplicably possible.
Will the ammount of character creation options that the game can handle without causing an unacceptable increase in network traffic be tested in beta if it is the issue here?
The sooner the customer can evaluate what they will be paying for the better for all concerned.

Connection issues and making sure launch goes smoothly outclass your unmeetable demands.

[Thebard]

Connection issues and making sure launch goes smoothly outclass your unmeetable demands.

Perhaps if you read this thread and also the JP forums you will find its not just me. Perhaps if you read the dev/mod post on this very page you will see that you are mistaken. Perhaps you will be happy with any old rubbish SE serves you up?
Perhaps you will make a witty response to this post, ok thats taking things too far.

[Kallera]

Perhaps if you read this thread and also the JP forums you will find its not just me. Perhaps if you read the dev/mod post on this very page you will see that you are mistaken. Perhaps you will be happy with any old rubbish SE serves you up?
Perhaps you will make a witty response to this post, ok thats taking things too far.

You are asking the dev team the impossible if you want 10 times the amount of hairstyles. Yes the JP want more. I want more, but we will not get more if it will come at the cost of game speed and performance come launch. And launch is the point where the servers will be facing a lot of traffic and new users on both pc and ps3. All the hairstyles in the world will not make up for a laggy experience where the game can only load a small piece of the mmo throng.

[Thebard]

You are asking the dev team the impossible if you want 10 times the amount of hairstyles. Yes the JP want more. I want more, but we will not get more if it will come at the cost of game speed and performance come launch. And launch is the point where the servers will be facing a lot of traffic and new users on both pc and ps3. All the hairstyles in the world will not make up for a laggy experience where the game can only load a small piece of the mmo throng.

You really need to stop arguing with me based on something you know nothing about, more is possible, how much more is not clear. Yes so I exaggerated to make a point, my point still stands until we see something concrete. All we have seen is 1 new hairstyle for each race, unlocking of racial hairstyles (some anyway) boob adjustment, tail length adjustment and 3 unlocked genders, some increase in available colour palettes has been announced. Add this to what we had in 1.0 and we still have a laughably weak character creation system, so yeah we need more, so I ask for more. I will keep asking for more long after you have given up on this thread and after you have seen the 20th identical twin of Kallera Etoile walk past you on day one of relaunch.

[Kallera]

You really need to stop arguing with me based on something you know nothing about, more is possible, how much more is not clear. Yes so I exaggerated to make a point, my point still stands until we see something concrete. All we have seen is 1 new hairstyle for each race, unlocking of racial hairstyles (some anyway) boob adjustment, tail length adjustment and 3 unlocked genders, some increase in available colour palettes has been announced. Add this to what we had in 1.0 and we still have a laughably weak character creation system, so yeah we need more, so I ask for more. I will keep asking for more long after you have given up on this thread and after you have seen the 20th identical twin of Kallera Etoile walk past you on day one of relaunch.

Again you asked the impossible in your initial post. And really, you are blowing the character creator way out of proportion. I find the concerns of managing even larger amounts of hairstyles and colors within a mmo community a lot more believable than the "problems" you are describing, which I personally haven't run into during my playing of FFXIV, nor would I consider it a problem even if, by some stroke of good taste that it did exist. They aren't me, nor will they play or talk like I do.

Lag and bad game performance in the other hand, are much bigger issues which we all saw at 1.0s launch, and would not want the PS3 crowd to experience in any measure close to our own. This is a new audience for SE, another branch of revenue. and I appreciate the dev team's care regarding this, while keep the door open for fan input.

[Yrusama]

You are asking the dev team the impossible if you want 10 times the amount of hairstyles. Yes the JP want more. I want more, but we will not get more if it will come at the cost of game speed and performance come launch. And launch is the point where the servers will be facing a lot of traffic and new users on both pc and ps3. All the hairstyles in the world will not make up for a laggy experience where the game can only load a small piece of the mmo throng.

Are we still talking about launch at this point? I think some of us have accepted that they likely won't ADD much by launch, mostly fix anything malfunctioning in Beta. I could see additional hair styles 6 months to a year after launch.

Stupid looking powdered wigs for everyone!

Wig: worn on the head to simulate hair. How about a stupid-looking powdered wig for a seasonal event? It would totally be a Lalafell thing, since Ul'dah has the pompous aristocracy.