We still care deeply about the Shape of our characters..[Dev Request]

[Enthy]

I really do hope they fix the flat butts on all characters. They said something like they had to give all races the same butt model for gear purposes, why could't they give us all normal sized butts? Did they really think giving everyone a Lalafel butt was going to be OK? O.o gross.

2.0 (Left wearing subliguar) 1.0 (right wearing bikini)

[Slappah]

Does anyone know of a game that has actually changed base models 3+ years after the fact? I mean, I suppose more sliders could always be added, but I personally don't know of any games that have done that (granted my game range is small - 4-5 MMOs)

WoW updated all the race models (besides a couple of the new races since they weren't really old)

I hate to bring up WoW, but yeah, that answers your question

(And is actually the only mmo I know that did this unless you count runescape, lol)

[Kerwin]

I don't want to be the one to give the bad news, but after all this time and seeing how a dev already gave an answer before, I doubt they will do anything about it now seeing that if they did make visual adjustments, the amount of man power and editing for all existing gear would be a tremendous load on them that could be placed elsewhere in more important areas. But I know this is important to some of you people here, but just stating a view from another perspective.

[Eloah]

Screw this talk over butts, a lot of people in real life have their butts looking like this. I want another race and preferably one with more sexual dismorphia, like short guys to tall girls. That would be interesting, at least for me.

[NanaWiloh]

Sad too say but adding a slider to adjust character rear sizes is unlikely to happen during Heavensward. Its not a high priority for the Dev's, if they were to added such a slider it would most likely come with the next expansion. This thread also makes me wonder how many players are just spending time looking at that their characters butts rather then playing the game.

[Colorful]

Screw this talk over butts, a lot of people in real life have their butts looking like this. I want another race and preferably one with more sexual dismorphia, like short guys to tall girls. That would be interesting, at least for me.

I personally can't say I've met someone who's butt is non-existent, but maybe I just haven't met enough people. As for sexual dimorphism, don't we already have this with the Au Ra? Of course it's the opposite case where the men are far larger than women, but hey it's there. I'd rather see more options for existing races myself, FFXIV is really lacking in the character customization section (apart from hairstyles), makes up for it glamour wise though.

[Skivvy]

I really do hope they fix the flat butts on all characters. They said something like they had to give all races the same butt model for gear purposes, why could't they give us all normal sized butts? Did they really think giving everyone a Lalafel butt was going to be OK? O.o gross.

2.0 (Left wearing subliguar) 1.0 (right wearing bikini)

I really wonder if they had actually changed the shape of miqo'te at all, or if it was all just in the lighting/game engine of 1.0. Many things looked different only due to the shading effect the game had (or whatever the technical term is, forgive me D: ).

The picture of the dancing miqo, they all look pretty standard, as does the one just standing on the end. Does anyone have any pictures of them just standing still from the side? The regular shots that show up in these threads are always from creeper angles which will generally make things look a bit different.

So I tried to get my own. Pardon the funky quality, but it does highlight the fact that angles and lighting can do a number on one's ass.




looking more flat colored, no cheek shadows, but still not completely flat....




Ayyyy


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Welp, after wasting even MORE time....I've come to the conclusion that it was more than likely just the shading from the old engine and miqo'te from 1.0 didn't have magical asses.




Keep in mind that once again, lighting and other factors (distance to camera, exact angles, miqo'te size (I did not make mine petite!) will come into play here and it is impossible to compare 1.0 and ARR in a perfect way.

[TheGrimace]

Screw it. I didn't care about the issue at all, but if people are that interested that we have an OP with 50 likes at this point, I'll throw my hat into the mix too...

...Provided we also get a slider to make junk look bigger. I'm all for equality, you see.

[myahele]

Aside from the butts, it appears as if females back in 1.0 had a more hour glass figure compared to now. Ironically, Au Ra males now have that figure, if not more pronounced.

[Colorful]

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Here's the most common image I've seen for it when it was a "big" story on gaming sites.