FFXIV already has better character customization than Warcraft

[KageTokage]

Of all the games I've actually played, Phantasy Star Online 2 by far had the most robust character creator and is F2P, though region-locked (But easily bypassable).

You're pretty much guaranteed to be able make the exact sort of face you'd want, and while the body options aren't as robust, they're still unlikely to disappoint, being able to alter limb length/width, muscle tone, and weight to get a build that should be fairly close to what one wants.

[Squigley]

Black Desert >= Eve Online >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest

Eve actually set the bar on this one, BDO came later. Oh the sweet irony.

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

Actually being an MMO means that the data of dozens of other characters around you have to be send through the servers. 100 people on the map means the server has to send all the data of these 100 characters not only to you, but also to the other 100 people around you. And the more options the character editor has, the more data has to be send. And that's basically the reason why Au Ra horns aren't seperated from the face - "Server Limitations".

i cant belive ppl buy the server limit excuse if it has such a low limit upgrade your servers seriously

[Maero]

I was also going to say Black Desert but someone already has.
Tera has ok customization from what i can recall, and Blade & Soul perhaps? Other then that i do not recall at least online games for customization.

[Sigma-Astra]

i cant belive ppl buy the server limit excuse if it has such a low limit upgrade your servers seriously

Because there are people who actually know how expensive and how much of a pain in the butt it is to put a new server together in a large room filled with other servers? All it takes is for one thing to go wrong and most of the time, there's no handy dandy way or manual to tell you where you screwed up. Servers installations are just prone towards having random hang-ups because something was either corrupted in the process, something didn't install correctly, things didn't transfer over correctly the way that they should, etc. It's massively stress-inducing.

You can't just simply take the old server out and pop a new one back in like a battery. The game won't magically still be going in the meantime as that happens.

[Gula]

i cant belive ppl buy the server limit excuse if it has such a low limit upgrade your servers seriously

I take it you have never watched the Live Letters yes?

[Iscah]

I would like to see facial options unlocked within an entire race (e.g. Eyes/mouth/nose will no longer be locked to faces 1, 2, 3 4, etc - you can mix and match with all options within the race). That alone would make me quite happy and could really broaden the types of characters we see in game, all while still keeping perfectly normal appearances.

To give an idea, these were some really quick mock-ups I made a while back in MSpaint (dem skillz!):
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These may not be the best examples, but they are pulling various facial features from all the faces in the race.

While I do enjoy really expansive character creators, it can also be a bit overwhelming to me as you have SO many options for what you can do.....and I want far too many! lol

I don't think they can just do that, because (I assume) the faces fit together like jigsaw puzzles, and each face element would be designed to slot into that particular face shape.

If you wanted them all to be interchangeable, I think the faces themselves would have to be a lot more uniform in their shape and proportions.


It would also be about the amount of data involved. Right now it only needs to store your choice out of 6 options. If you could access every element, that would be 24 options, times however many face settings there are.

[Ilan]

Aion was limited in the fact that you could only really create animu or korean pop idol faces unless you went off the rails goblin. B&S- also NCsoft, did the same thing. I like the body options in other games, but XIV stylistically clicks with me best. XIV's body options just feel like the scaler tool in photoshop. You get max height, and min height. No hips, leg proportions or anything that makes your body really stand out since even flat chest isn't truly flat.

You what? If you can't work with the sliders keep your hands off of them. lol

[TaranTatsuuchi]

transmog > a dead raccoon > glamour closet

Funny tidbit...
It was originally planned to be called the Glamour Commode.



It will always be the glamour toilet to me!

[DPZ2]

Personally, I find that the FFXIV character look and feel appeals to me more than most other MMOs, even those with a gazillion sliders.

The main reason - emotion. When I laugh, my body and face move like I'm laughing. The eyes make things more lively. I don't have a dead stare in every cut scene.