Character Customization Moving Forward into Shadowbringer

[DarkEiraStar]

Don't count too solidly on "new and unique customisation" actually meaning they have more options than other races. Most likely it's just *different* options. (For comparison, you could call Auri limbal rings a 'new' customisation option that hadn't been seen in other races, but data-wise it uses the same input that stores racial tattoos or unique earrings on other races.)

Also if I remember correctly, I think that quote originated from when they were talking about why they were making headgear invisible - in which case the meaning was probably more like "doing this means we could include designs that wouldn't work with helmets" than "doing this meant we could incorporate more choices per character".

I don't believe there will be new character options for other races at Shadowbringer's launch, and probably not in many patches afterward. However it is unlikely that we will see anymore new races given the development time and cost into creating them. That's doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't see new character options for the existing races. They're adding Viera because people really wanted them (they were actually considering Viera in place of Au Ra's back in Heavensward), they're adding Hrothgar because people wanted a more animalistic race. So why wouldn't they consider adding new options to the existing races, if there is enough of a demand for them?

[Iscah]

I don't believe there will be new character options for other races at Shadowbringer's launch, and probably not in many patches afterward. However it is unlikely that we will see anymore new races given the development time and cost into creating them. That's doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't see new character options for the existing races. They're adding Viera because people really wanted them (they were actually considering Viera in place of Au Ra's back in Heavensward), they're adding Hrothgar because people wanted a more animalistic race. So why wouldn't they consider adding new options to the existing races, if there is enough of a demand for them?

I'm not saying they can't add new options, but that it's unlikely the new races would have inherently more 'customisation points' than the older races. Possibly it will stay the same, or possibly all the races get some extra settings, but I doubt the new races will have more options-per-character than the older ones.

Some people are interpreting the statements about the new races having (vague quote from memory) unique customisation options as a tradeoff for not having visible helmets, as that somehow that will translate into giving them more categories of character settings.

If people are counting on that being the case, I think they may be setting themselves up for disappointment and a wave of angry "where are the additional customisation options we were promised?!?!" posts upon Shadowbringers' release - when we weren't promised anything at all, and people just read something into a statement that was never actually there.