Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Theodric]

Squeenix, let me give my men bulges you cowards.

It doesn't even need to be a slider. Just actually present. Overwatch does it tastefully - on certain costumes you can see that McCree and Soldier: 76 are packing a decent amount of heat. It isn't even particularly lewd, just a consequence of a male's natural form combined with the realistic tightness of certain outfits.

[zeylos]

To be honest, its competition right now that can give FF14 a run for its money is ESO, but due to the differences in play style - well there's the issue. I still believe the whole 'Best game of the year - so far' is something that they should eyeball and take into consideration and not just go 'well we did that with it being in this state, everything is fine.' Hopefully, the suits give Yoshida an increase in budget.

World of Warcraft is also a great game that even in this dreadfully wrong expansion has many more players than FFXIV will most likely ever have, and I think that going by their interviews and such the next expansion will be great on all fronts (like how after WoD, which was worse than BFA, came Legion, one of their best expansiosn ever), and it's XIV main competitor currently, having many more players than ESO will ever have

[Lauront]

It is with regard to NPC designs - I forgot some words in there - should read "whilst he considered having multiple body types (in light of the ShB trailer showing these for Miqo'te) infeasible for player characters". So my bad, edited it in.


Basically he more or less ruled that option out but said they are looking at ways to improve body optimisation.

Hopefully, the suits give Yoshida an increase in budget.

Isn't he one of them now?

So it boils down to, the game being overhauled in regards to graphics and CC etc. They don't bother at all overhauling and are just waiting for the end of this games life to make another MMO with up to date graphics that is more than likely to have the same playstyle as ESO or a Destiny clone, but with moogles.

Based on interview commentary he gave, it wouldn't even be the same type of MMO as this, but something more in the MOBA direction. They spoke of "perfecting" this one. You would hope "perfecting" would include graphics/CC improvements but it remains to be seen.

I want this. ESO didn't let me edit the downstairs but at least I could edit everything else. Least I have cyberpunk to be an degenerate in ... A degenerate spoilt for choice due to that awesome character creator. Ayyyyyyyyyy

Even the presence of a bulge (a la Overwatch) as opposed to a flat pack would be welcome! As Theodric says, it's part of how the male anatomy interacts with tighter outfits... flatpacks down there just look odd. Sliders veer into murkier territory given that they draw attention to the feature, but for a game like Saint's Row (or I guess Cyberpunk?) the age rating may allow for it.

[AnakhaSilver]

The reason you're not getting a graphics overhaul is it's a lllloooooot of work, btw. Just as a heads up.

[Lauront]

I wouldn't go so far as to it being a case of "will" not (because it's not set in stone) but I agree, they have stated it is a lot of work.

[AnakhaSilver]

I wouldn't go so far as to it being a case of "will" not (because it's not set in stone) but I agree, they have stated it is a lot of work.

I mean, even if you logic it out, you realize how much work it is. They would have to remake all the assets--time I'd rather they spend on new things than retexturing old things.

[grinkdaboy]

I mean, even if you logic it out, you realize how much work it is. They would have to remake all the assets--time I'd rather they spend on new things than retexturing old things.

the question in my mind is that why don't they just outsource it?

[GenBroadaxe]

the question in my mind is that why don't they just outsource it?

Because it's a loss of control. Japanese companies tend to be more conservative in how they operate so if a project is important enough they'd want to keep things in house. I work for an American branch of a international Japanese company who, at one point, made the decision to let another company make an core part of one of our products that we normally would make and it lead to one of the largest service advisories we've had. If FFXIV is a substantial money maker for them then I can't image that they'd let any outside variable work on it.

[grinkdaboy]

Because it's a loss of control. Japanese companies tend to be more conservative in how they operate so if a project is important enough they'd want to keep things in house. I work for an American branch of a international Japanese company who, at one point, made the decision to let another company make an core part of one of our products that we normally would make and it lead to one of the largest service advisories we've had. If FFXIV is a substantial money maker for them then I can't image that they'd let any outside variable work on it.

if it's just a matter of re-creating textures at a higher resolution then you're going to have to really sell it to me on how they could possibly screw something so simple like that

[AnakhaSilver]

the question in my mind is that why don't they just outsource it?

Gestures at how far back FF7R ended up because of how much they had to scrap from the outsourced part