Bulge size options for character creation.

[Vahlnir]

There is that overused word again, "realistic". So you know...the proportions of every single player character made that is not Lalafell ARE realistic. The flat butts and lack of visible bulge make them very unlikely, but NOT unrealistic.

Something not being like the average Joe or Jane does not mean it's not realistic. The fact that most people in the world are not in good shape and/or health does not mean that the healthy, fit people are unrealistic. Almost every time there is someone asking for realistic representation in video games showing some sort of character as argument, there are people that actually understand the meaning of that word showing photos of actual, real people with those proportions. A very loud example was a poster girl for GTA game...that was MODELED AFTER A VERY REAL PERSON altogether. And some activists called her unrealistic and fattened her up claiming that is the solution to her "disproportions".

So...yeah. Ask for options to have variety?! Sure. No problem here. I don't care so long as the characters made will still look as reasonably fit people without absurd options possible. Even among very fit people there are differences with how prominent the muscles are, how much fat content they have or how slim they are.

But claim that the changes are to add realism...and sorry. You are simply wrong. Plainly and factually wrong.

The only rare aspects of proportions for the characters that could be changed is some bulge (not necessarily big) and some butt (again, not necessarily big). Everything else is "realistic" (in quotation marks because, yes, Mi'quote do not exist, and neither do Elezen, Roegadyn etc...and Lalafells are out of whack on purpose), suitable for fit and active characters that spend their lives fighting gods and dragons and easy on the eyes. Which, yes, is of importance in a work of fiction. Fiction which have that to it that it can take a very small chance of someone being born extremely beautiful and flawlessly healthy and pass that trait on everyone.

I was giving room for interpretation as far as "realistic proportions" was concerned, seeing as that could mean something different for different people. That's the only reason I brought it up. As to the rest of my post I stand by what I said. I'm fine with how characters look currently, certain aspects aside which you yourself brought up, but more options is always better. And imo they are severely lacking when f2p games do things better.