Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[reiichi]

I'm sorry but HUH? How is this game supposed to last 20 years with these sorts of limitations? It's not just faces but things like housing, glamour, etc. With all these technical limitations it seems crazy to me to not just move on to a new MMO in the long term.

Hopefully when Yoshi P said the 10 year thing he meant that FFXVII online (or whatever) will launch at some point between then but XIV will still be serviced until the end of the next 10 years.

It's not a technical limitation of the engine or something, like that older post seems to imply. (And that's likely an incorrect interpretation of the original answer provided back in a live letter or something).

The "game breaking" issue is that if SE adds more faces, they'd have to go re-QA all the animations to ensure it doesn't clip or animate improperly, and as seen with how they've handled newer race additions, that doesn't seem to be a priority. Adding in more faces without doing the proper work for it would just result in first-party "modbeast" issues otherwise, which would be divisive.

I'd definitely like for them to add more options, especially since the "graphics update" is exactly the sort of opportunity do this sort of work, but I'm not hopeful. It's still weird that /new/ hats are barred from Viera and Hrothgar. And that only midlanders have 6 faces, which is still not diverse enough, but a major step up from the 4 for every other race/clan combination.

[Neetborn]

I'm still waiting for a new FF mmorpg. I came from FF11 which was way more limited in options compared to 14. Sad to say but SE will always cater more to the Japanese and they haven't changed their ways since 11.

If you want RL representations then I live in the US and majority of the people here are overweight including myself and I'm Asian. The number of overweight NPCs in 14 are so few that they can almost be counted on one hand.