Quote Originally Posted by Enthy View Post
I agree that it would be very nice if SE would allow us to change everything about our characters even race/gender any time we feel like it for a gil fee. but I'm sure they'll feel the need to put some sort of restrictions. The restrictions said in my original post, in my opinion would be acceptable.
No, thanks, seriously, no race/gender changes. That goes a tad too far.

By the way, I seriously doubt that sliders will be ever implemented. The FFXIV character creation is composite, meaning that it's not based on mesh deformation, it composes selectable elements in order to create different results.

Turning character creations from composition-based to mesh deformation-based wouldn't be a transformation, but a complete redesign. They simply would have to scrap the whole character creation implementation and make a new one.
Thing that, by the way, would inevitably and automaticly change the looks of the characters already present in game, because there's simply no way for an engine to recalcolate with sufficent precision all the deformations necessary to reproduce perfectly a predefined mesh.

Considering that the vast majority of results obtained by a deformation-based character design are actually unviable (ugly, deformed, simply bad looking, even with restricted sliders), it's much more efficent (and wastes much less resources that are better used elsewhere) to add more options to the current system.

The only slider I'd consider would be an age slider that would overlay a texture and a normal map to simulate skin aging, and that doesn't require deformation.