Can males get some diversity?

[Ayer2015]

Cant say that I agree with your sentiment. Elezen are tall and thin, Roes thick and muscular, Lalafel are well.... Lalafel. Au Ra, sure are fitter looking, but they also have very wide hips for a male.

The only body type I would say is not in the game for both genders would be a fatter type.

[Leloa]

Well but all the girls like miqote, midlander and au ras are skinny as fluff so it's quite even

[BillyKaplan]

There's about as much body type diversity between males and females, that is to say - none. They each get slightly different attributes based on race but they all generally adhere to pretty common conceptions of masculinity and femininity. All the guys have muscle. All the girls have thin figures. Lalafells are equally potatoes. The only true disparity between the races right now is a bit less variety on the higher end (where male Au Ra are) and for males, a bit less variety on the lower end (where female Au Ra are). But if you look at it like that, males arguably have the bigger height ranges, going from the shortest male Lala to the tallest male Roe whereas for ladies you won't quite get to that range.
Both are equally lacking in any true body-shape diversity.

[CosmicKirby]

I want a new race that looks like the males are fresh out of Huge Quest.

[Kohdo]

We have beefcake Roe males, slender Miqo'te and Elezen, androgynous sentient potatoes and musclebound femroes. We don't have the Michelin Man physique, but that'd look ridiculous anyway. There's plenty of body type diversity, and the only game I can think of that does it better is SWTOR with their body type slider, and maybe ESO as they have a better muscle mass slider than FFXIV.

[Hestzhyen]

Can't hurt to have more variety, though XIV has a nice range from potato to ultra buff. Part of the reason I don't like western MMOs is because all the men are OD'd on testosterone. I like being a guy, but I don't need to be "manly" in every blippin' game I play.

I do wish my character wasn't so buff even with the sad excuse for a "muscle slider" all the way down. And that I could be Female Miqo'te height instead of taller than almost every lizard/cat girl despite being at the minimum height setting. They're small complaints, sure. But I'd still be happy to have more control over what I look like.

[Theodric]

So long as 'more diversity' brings more options for those of us who want our characters to look masculine, sure - add things like a muscle slider for every playable race. I'd be playing a Miqo'te if I could make one that is a bit beefier than the current options allow for.

I also want to see more options for things like facial hair and not necessarily just beards, either - I favour stubble and something similar to Hien's facial hair would be incredible.

[Riardon]

So long as 'more diversity' brings more options for those of us who want our characters to look masculine, sure - add things like a muscle slider for every playable race. I'd be playing a Miqo'te if I could make one that is a bit beefier than the current options allow for.

I also want to see more options for things like facial hair and not necessarily just beards, either - I favour stubble and something similar to Hien's facial hair would be incredible.

We've been asking this for years. Yet they always ignore us. The character creation screen needs an overhaul with more options and some rearrangement. The colour palette also needs more colours. A muscle slider for all races and genders. More faces and not the 3-4 we have now lol. More eye shapes, noses and more body options including body tattoos.

[Lukha]

So long as 'more diversity' brings more options for those of us who want our characters to look masculine, sure - add things like a muscle slider for every playable race.

If they were to introduce different build options, ideally I'd want to see (at least) three options for each race/gender, with the current models as the 'middle' option, and one slimmer and one bulkier build. The exceptions to this would
probably be femAu Ra and both M and F Elezen, who are already pretty slim and might get more use out of two bulkier options, and MRoes, who have probably already achieved maximum bulk and could be given a 'trim' and 'scrawny' option (Imagine the poor textures if they tried to make them any larger! I was standing behind an MRoe in RW last night and could almost hear the design on his coat screaming for mercy >.<).

I'm trying not to imagine how badly adding all those new models would compound our current glamour equality issues...

[Iscah]

Re. character heights - I went and checked all the height ranges in the character creator (because I was curious and was meaning to do it anyway).

Height in centimetres with slider at 0 / 50 (default) / 100:

Midlander M: 168.0 | 175.0 | 182.0
Midlander F: 157.4 | 164.0 | 170.5

Highlander M: 184.8 | 192.5 | 200.2
Highlander F: 173.1 | 180.4 | 187.6

Elezen M: 194.1 | 202.0 | 209.8
Elezen F: 183.5 | 191.0 | 198.4

Lalafell M/F: 86.9 | 91.9 | 97.0

Miqo'te M: 159.2 | 166.2 | 173.2
Miqo'te F: 149.7 | 156.0 | 162.2

Roegadyn M: 213.5 | 222.0 | 230.4
Roegadyn F: 192.0 | 207.3 | 222.7

Au Ra M: 203.0 | 210.0 | 217.0
Au Ra F: 146.0 | 152.2 | 158.5

If you compare the minimum and maximum heights, most characters have a possible range of about 14cm, but female Roegadyn have an unusually large range of about 30cm.

Adjusting height seems to just scale the entire character up or down, without changing their body proportions.


In order by average height:
222 - Roegadyn M
210 - Au Ra M
207 - Roegadyn F
202 - Elezen M
192 - Highlander M
191 - Elezen F
180 - Highlander F
175 - Midlander M
166 - Miqo'te M
164 - Midlander F
156 - Miqo'te F
152 - Au Ra F
92 - Lalafell M/F