Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Iscah]

A few additional thoughts:

On the specific issue of the character creator not having options for wider noses, I wonder if it may be a technical issue rather than a design choice. There seems to be very little variance in the width of noses, but from a side view they vary a lot - high, low, different shapes and sizes. So it's possible that the issue is actually in how the "interchangeable" elements of the face need to fit together, or how it moves when doing emotes.

On hairstyles, Roegadyn and Elezen have a few extra braided styles that Hyurans don't have access to, and wavy hair rather than straight. Again, it's a matter of which elements of character design are most important and which ones you want to compromise on.

On the "clearly black" characters Sawney and Roland: I noticed that Sawney has very pale eyes (one shade off pure white according to his character data) and that sent me thinking - there seems to be a strong pattern of that colour choice. The dark-skinned Elezen characters I was talking about earlier all have pale eyes too, and light hair colours. Perhaps resulting from the same mindset that leads to anime characters having hair and eyes of any colour and still being perceived as Japanese.

Side note on that 'curly updo' hairstyle: it gets used a few times for "sylphs in human disguise" - Noraxia at the Waking Sands early in the game, and two "shifty characters" (obviously touched sylphs) that you encounter in one of the sylph beast tribe quests.

"We want butt sliders! Bunny suits for men! Motorbikes! Bulges! Frilly lolita skirts! Angel and devil costumes! Rabbits!"
>300+ likes

"Character creation is biased towards eurocentric beauty standards despite having a clearly human race with varying ethnicities like those IRL and should have more representation for other races."
> "wOOoOaahHH man this is a FANTASY game whoever heard of BLACK PEOPLE in a FANTASY GAME lmao wwOAHH outragEOUS who do you think you ARE"

It's not that simple. A lot of the early part of this topic involved people trying to make helpful suggestions and getting insulted in return because it's not exactly what the original poster was looking for. That's going to drive away a lot of people even if they agree with the overall sentiment.

Also most of those topics have been around longer, and the only one I could find in the first five pages is the "bulges" one which has all of fifteen likes, versus seventy to the first comment saying it's not actually a fair equivalence.