The sad state of customization

[Annah]

the current engine can handle hair collision and other customizations features.

However, SE sees that developing other things other than customization like these are more important (i.e., savage, Omega, Extremes, Tome, different armor ilvls, etc etc)

I am not saying either is right or wrong.

All I am saying is Square Enix believes there are more important things to focus on rather than these issues|

Oh, and just because you can "customize" more in "android" games that doesnt mean the game as a whole is better. I've played a lot of games (both on tablet apps and pc games) that had a lot more customization options than FFXIV and those games were complete sh*t

Just throwing that out there too

[Aylis]

Oh, and just because you can "customize" more in "android" games that doesnt mean the game as a whole is better. I've played a lot of games (both on tablet apps and pc games) that had a lot more customization options than FFXIV and those games were complete sh*t

Just throwing that out there too

That's bringing personal taste and personal preference in a discussion that doesn't involve it. FXIV might be better to you but to someone else those android games might make FFXIV look like complete s**t to them. I've played a lot of games too, some with more customization options then FFXIV some with less. Yes some in both camps to me make FFXIV look like garbage. But that's personal opinion. The question is why is a game that's major standpoint is glamor and looking amazing not have the tool set to fully take advantage of both.

[Annah]

That's bringing personal taste and personal preference in a discussion that doesn't involve it. FXIV might be better to you but to someone else those android games might make FFXIV look like complete s**t to them. I've played a lot of games too, some with more customization options then FFXIV some with less. Yes some in both camps to me make FFXIV look like garbage. But that's personal opinion. The question is why is a game that's major standpoint is glamor and looking amazing not have the tool set to fully take advantage of both.

Yes. That is very true. It is about personal tastes. I personally have never found a mobile game that was better than FFXIV

[Naunet]

Clearly they are able to add more options to each of the presets - otherwise we would not get new hairstyles every few updates. I do not think it is too much to ask of SE for them to add more presets for ALL of our customization options.

[Pori_Dessu]

Clearly they are able to add more options to each of the presets - otherwise we would not get new hairstyles every few updates. I do not think it is too much to ask of SE for them to add more presets for ALL of our customization options.

That's a reasonable request. However, most of the other customization options that could be added the same way as hairs aren't noticeable enough in game to make SE put more attention in making them, as someone said before, customization options is not viewed as a priority when allocating development resources.

Modified is not the same, i didnt say a 100% new one. I worded it wrong sorry.

No problem. But that's what I said on my first post, but in somewhat different words, as I said this game's engine is built using the 1.0 engine, I worded it poorly tho, so I apologize as well. Anyway, the problem is, the base engine for this game is as old as 2008-2009 at least, and was created under the supervision of a different director and producer, who thought basing the whole game content on levequests and not having jump in game was a good decision, so... As I said, unless the team can completely overhaul at least some part of the engine, customization options that can be compared to BnS at least (BDO is kinda impossible, the customization is crazy in that game) is not happening.

[Naunet]

That's a reasonable request. However, most of the other customization options that could be added the same way as hairs aren't noticeable enough in game to make SE put more attention in making them, as someone said before, customization options is not viewed as a priority when allocating development resources.

They're noticeable enough to me and everyone else who's asked for more customization in the past. (And those threads have gotten LONG!)

Honestly SE doesn't need you making excuses for them.

[Pori_Dessu]

They're noticeable enough to me and everyone else who's asked for more customization in the past. (And those threads have gotten LONG!)

Honestly SE doesn't need you making excuses for them.

I'm not making excuses for them, I want more customization as well, and I notice all this stuff as well. I'd like to be able to make a better and more unique looking character. But you gotta understand the other side of matters as well, that's the basic when thinking about things. I stated your request was reasonable, but you gotta understand why it isn't happening anytime soon. I'm not saying you shouldn't request stuff, just don't blame them if they don't implement it for a comprehensible reason from their standpoint.

[usalia]

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Modified is not the same, i didnt say a 100% new one. I worded it wrong sorry.

[Lelila38]

At the very least they could give hair collision physics so it won't clip.

This has been discussed several times already. They had to chose between no hair clipping and a wider variety of armors, just with clipping hair. They favored armor design over the hair issue.

[HakaseNyan]

I wonder what they'd have to sacrifice to give us more character customization. Anyone else played Black Desert? Plenty of character customization, but the amount of different armor, and how they appear on the character, is awful. The only other comparison I can think of, similar to FFXIV, is Guild Wars 2 - I don't remember the character customization being all that great either, but then they have up to 3 dyes on a piece of armor and a bank/wallet thing going on.