Shared hairstyles, new hairstyles and changing them

[Radacci]

You are bald so you probably don't care. :P
Its pretty clear at this stage that SE has done little to add to character creation when they resort to giving us hairstyles from other race that have not been adjusted and look rediculous. Its clear because whenever this subject comes up we get spurious excuses and vagueness from SE. It is clear that most modern MMO's have a character creation system that leave FFXIV in the stoneage.
I think its laughable that they spend 2 years remaking the game and then expect people to have to wait until a future date for cc to be upgraded to offer the basic level of customisation found in other games.

Lols, it's just cause most of the other hairstyles were ugly for highlander and the stubble was less visible than i had hoped for

Well that's what beta is for is it not? we can comment on: omg that hair looks stupid, pls scale it properly; then they fix it in 1min. I don't think it's *resorting* to cross race hairstyles; There's many hairstyles, but any given clan don't have many. There's not much reason to have it race restricted anyways. It would be silly to make 50 more clan restricted haircuts for each clan, when you can just take away the clan restriction.

SE has never been anything else than secretive; and since Yoshi tour is close, there's no reason to spew out info about the game before that. The tour is supposed to be the promotion tour that everyone has wanted them to do, to put the game in the spotlight. I'm pretty sure he'll unveil more details during the tour. It would have been even worse if they had already made public all the details, and have nothing new to add on a promotion tour.

Sure CC could probably be better; but we don't know what stuff they will add in phase 3, regarding that.
But i'm sure you can agree that with some of CC out there, you can make really ugly chars; and i'm sure SE wanna keep it realistic, so you don't end up with 1ft Aion midget chars, or other messed up stuff.
There's different races, and i think it's fine if they keep them iconic; so you can't change Hyur into Roe with CC; or Roe to Lal.

There's much more to a game than CC and hairstyles 2 years is quite short time to make a game from scratch; and they have so many things planned for future content, that hairstyles and such seem trivial anyways.
Btw, i don't find the CC to as shitty as you seem to suggest you can modify most stuff; Except making your char super buff, or super skinny and such.

[Punainen]

I wanna see new Lalafell female hair! I'm so excited! I hope there's one I'll want to switch to.

[Elexia]

If other MMOs pull off having 60+ hairstyles and sliders for customizing every part of the character's face and body without collapsing network traffic, I don't see why it would be impossible in FFXIV.

Let's see what you're forgetting:

#1. You forgot most other MMOs are region specific or have separate versions, i.e WoW NA doesn't interact with WoW EU nor does it interact with WoW CN.

#2. Most other MMOs are PC only, they don't have to take into consideration how PS3 handles data, they're the one making the game, they know exactly what can and cannot work with their product.

#3. Most other hairstyles are exactly the same things with variations onto them in the "60+" catalog, which makes it even easier to add a ton if they're all basically the same designs. You know full well people would complain if it wasn't 60+ completely unique hairstyles.

#4. Supposedly, ARR will have "the best graphics in the genre" which requires much more data and so on. At that point, you have to scale things back in order to work efficiently.

[Mug]

I'd also like to add that hairstyles in other MMO's are generally of much less quality than in FFXIV. You can say a lot of bad things about 1.0, but the character graphic quality/animation (even the hair animation) was breathtaking. At least in my opinon.

I do hope they're at least adding a few new options, though. I feel they'd be taking the easy way out by just using what was already there in the first place.

[Arkine]

So, what about facial hair? is that going to be shared between races too?

[Lapulapu]

I really like your OP... I also know about SE's concern for network traffic. What I would like to know from a dev is WHERE IS THE LONG HAIR? I want Ororo hair.

[Altena]

[Thebard]

Let's see what you're forgetting:

#1. You forgot most other MMOs are region specific or have separate versions, i.e WoW NA doesn't interact with WoW EU nor does it interact with WoW CN.

#2. Most other MMOs are PC only, they don't have to take into consideration how PS3 handles data, they're the one making the game, they know exactly what can and cannot work with their product.

#3. Most other hairstyles are exactly the same things with variations onto them in the "60+" catalog, which makes it even easier to add a ton if they're all basically the same designs. You know full well people would complain if it wasn't 60+ completely unique hairstyles.

#4. Supposedly, ARR will have "the best graphics in the genre" which requires much more data and so on. At that point, you have to scale things back in order to work efficiently.

So the data for all hairstyle options, every option in character creation, is carried in your characters data packet is it? If so someone screwed up again.

[PSxpert2011]

DUDE!

[Nabiri]

I think sharing the current hairstyles is a great place to start. I would love to see more of course..
But if we didn't start with these then people would be asking "Why can't I have that hairstyle the miqo'te/lalafell/hyur (etc.) has?"