Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[Ghastly]

I know some players are happy that we will not have a new race, because they think they will add more stuff to the current races... but have you guys thought about the possibility that current races will not get new stuff? I think we will have the status quo, next expansion will give each gender 1 or 2 new hairstyles and each patch we will get few hairstyles.

When people say "more customization" they throw that generic term out there. Yet we know no race will be able to be as tall as roegadyn, you won't have miqo'tes that can be taller than they already are.

New faces will be nice but what will 2 or 3 new faces really do? Some people will only like 1 of those 2 new faces. Let's hope they actually work and give us 10+ faces.

Beyond new faces I really don't see them working on anything else. Because lore and design.

[Zojha]

Beyond new faces I really don't see them working on anything else.

Well, faces aside, I can think of a few things:
- Tail Types (As well as Noses, Jaw etc)
- Hairstyles
- Face paints, Face&Horn Separation
- Additional features for the body (tatoos, scars etc)
- Colors converted to a fluid spectrum, rather than set colors.
- Maybe ear types

I doubt weight, butt or body type will be a thing. In general, I doubt anything that would require them to re-work hundreds of armor pieces will become a thing.

[Ghastly]

Well, faces aside, I can think of a few things:
- Tail Types (As well as Noses, Jaw etc)
- Hairstyles
- Face paints, Face&Horn Separation
- Additional features for the body (tatoos, scars etc)
- Colors converted to a fluid spectrum, rather than set colors.
- Maybe ear types

I doubt weight, butt or body type will be a thing. In general, I doubt anything that would require them to re-work hundreds of armor pieces will become a thing.

1. Restricted to miqo'te/au ra only. What more cat tail types are there that we haven't seen? 1 or 2?
2. They always add new hair
3. Face paint is a design choice, they just choose not to add more
4. Scars is a design choice also, I don't see them adding more. More tattoos they could add though but I'm not sure they will
5. Set colors for clans is there for lore/design reasons
6. Ear type? Are there 5-10 cat ear types?

This is the problem with people wanting more customization. A lot of it is either limited to miqo'te or things related to lore like colors.

[Laerune]

I think a good start would be:

- More handsome faces (like Aymeric or Alphinaud) and more faces in general, some races only have 4 faces, but other races have 7.
- Muscle slider for all races and genders.
- Beards, good looking beards, I used to play a male avatar and the one thing that I realy missed was having a nice beard.
- The option for Au Ra to swap horns and faces, Mi'qote can do the same with their facial tattoo.
- Tattoo's in general, I dont care if legacy players will cry about it.

Alot of the player characters (minus those playing the rare race/gender combo) look like clones, I want the option to make my own character, which is hard right now, since the options are very limited.

[ReplicaX]

- Tattoo's in general, I dont care if legacy players will cry about it.

What is there to cry about exactly?
- We have an exclusive calamity tattoo design.
- The Scions have an exclusive Sage tattoo design.

I'm all for keeping exclusive designs and adding more designs for everyone, to include multiple in various locations on the character models.

The team has plenty of lore to go off of for design options and player choices.

[Senn]

More handsome faces (like Aymeric or Alphinaud) and more faces in general, some races only have 4 faces, but other races have 7.

I would really like to play an elezen that looked like Aymeric.

Also, it's too bad there won't be a new race this expansion. I hope they add a viera race in 5.0 though.