Request: Please update the character creator!

[SturmChurro]

There's MMOs older than xiv that have better character creation like Aion which is is like... 12-13ish years old. I get the engines were different but with the PS5 version on the horizon they're almost fatally lacking compared to most of the competition. Yes WoW creation is kinda meh and they're the biggest competitor, but look at the big ones after WoW: Guild Wars 2, Elder Scroll Online, Blade & Soul, and Black Desert to name a few.

With the limitations they love to tell us about they might as well just re-make XIV from the ground up on a much more modern and durable engine. I'm not saying crank up the graphics to 1.0 levels but you know what I mean. Just better infrastructure across the board making what they deem "difficult" significantly easier.

Much of the "further customization" is also locked behind cash shops; it is specifically designed to be sold to you. GW2 has most (if not all?) of the nice, or non-generic options as something you have to pay extra to receive, ESO uses many of the "options" as padding for their lootboxes. Black Desert has an expansive creator, yes, but (all?) outfit options are sold through the cash shop, or bought then player sold through marketboard auction - so good luck looking half decent in the end, also most outfits are skimpy (for the purpose of being sold). Things like Black Desert have too many creation options, or rather morph options, anyway. I like that SE has a general idea of what they want their world too look like, and don't allow players to have horrific creatures running around, like something out of Ark for example.

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