This is going to sound weird but my honours years project is about character design and popularity with the community of players. Basically I'm trying to figure out why people like certain characters and why people like customising their characters.

Just wanted to ask various gamers on forums about why they like customising or not customising their characters. Do you spend lots of time and gil to get that perfect set or just gloss over it without paying any attention and just roll with whatever you have on. Also if you like an npc why? Is it appearance, personality, the voice acting etc?

Feel free to add in any more details if you want.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, feel free to move it and thanks for answering.