Okay, big changes take time. However.

[Alexis_Arteme]

Yet that's what you are. no matter how you want to dress up, you are one of the 20k-or-so players on your server at best. Acting like that isn't the case only makes you and the game seem foolish.

You are not a goddamn Cloud regardless of how spiky your hair is. You are a generic adventurer X.

Lastly, anyone working on fucking character hairstyles better get to work on any of the aforementioned changes to get them out faster or I'll lose all hope in Yoshida for prioritizing something so miniscule yet what takes as much work to do as anything.

I prefer lightning over Cloud - but that's another thread in another time.

Is it really so foolish? To ask for a few tools to allow me some creativity in the creation of my character? Heck, SWG even manged that. If I can't play a fantasy adventure game and experience at least the sensation of being an amazing character in an amazing world, I just don't have interest. Quite sad from one of their biggest fans. If I want to be a cog in a machine, completely ignorable like all the rest, I'll just go to a factory job and at least get paid for it.

If players are happy being nobodies, more power to them. I have higher ambitions IRL and in games. I'm not really surprised, artists and creative people have been getting crapped on in these types of games for all time. Asking for a canvas with which to create my character vs. a few legos and a stick is obviously asking too much... after all, most other games are exactly the same way, especially the most popular ones.

[Jennestia]

If I can't play a fantasy adventure game and experience at least the sensation of being an amazing character in an amazing world, I just don't have interest.

As we say in this industry:

"Create your own game, then."

MMORPGs aren't sandbox games to the extreme level like you're painting them out to be -- you can have customization, but you are playing THEIR fantasy world, not one you've created. Some MMOs have a lot of customization yet still within the limits of their world design, while others have almost no customization beyond hair color.

Also just an FYI, you can pump out models in days, weeks or months depending on amount of detail -- the mobs in XIV are heavily detailed compared to most MMOs out today -- however just because you go up to your project and lead and are like:

"Ok I finished x - x amount of hairstyles for lalafells, here you go!"

or

"Ok, here's a new Harpy family of enemies including a boss version, it took a month but it's done!"

Doesn't mean they'll up and implement it the second you complete it.