A New-Players Perspective and some thoughts

[Espon]

Character Creation
Initially, when I made my character as a mid-lander I was surprised by the lack of facial hair options there were available, only being able to toggle the top and bottom half on/off. It was only then after leveling my character some parts that your beard style was connected to your face shape? I was a bit annoyed and didn't want to have to restart to make a new character, so I decided to purchase a bottle of Fantasia.
While I have no quarrel with store purchases, making every product priced on USD left me feel cheated as I'm from another North-American country, considering the conversion rate, the prices didn't bode well for me.
Is this part strictly me complaining?
No. Below, is what I'm suggesting to remedy it. I want to make character creation a better experience for everyone so that they won't make the same mistakes I do.

There is an Aesthetician you can unlock ingame in Limsa Lominsa. For 2000 gil, you can change your character's facial features and hairstyle (unless you're a Hrothgar). That way you don't have to buy a fantasia if you want to change your appearance slightly; only for major things like skin colour, race, and gender.

[Gabadabs]

There is an Aesthetician you can unlock ingame in Limsa Lominsa. For 2000 gil, you can change your character's facial features and hairstyle (unless you're a Hrothgar). That way you don't have to buy a fantasia if you want to change your appearance slightly; only for major things like skin colour, race, and gender.

Also note that you can find the Aesthetician from the crystal bell in the inn room once he's unlocked.

[Rhuled]

Also note that you can find the Aesthetician from the crystal bell in the inn room once he's unlocked.

There is an Aesthetician you can unlock ingame in Limsa Lominsa. For 2000 gil, you can change your character's facial features and hairstyle (unless you're a Hrothgar). That way you don't have to buy a fantasia if you want to change your appearance slightly; only for major things like skin colour, race, and gender.

While I'm aware there's an Aethetician; I feel like it doesn't do justice to beard-types.
What I was particularly getting at was that jaw options were connected to beard styles.

Thanks for the replies.
<3

[KizuyaKatogami]

Unfortunately as far as beards and facial hair go, i don’t expect many changes. They’ve shown time and time again they really only favor the female characters and things of that nature. Masculine additions are rare few and far between.

[Wilford111]

Unfortunately as far as beards and facial hair go, i don’t expect many changes. They’ve shown time and time again they really only favor the female characters and things of that nature. Masculine additions are rare few and far between.

They said they're working on derplander stubble right?

[Rhuled]

I weep, and only pray for more.
I apologize for the slow-posts, but I'm rate limited due to my ig level I think.

[KizuyaKatogami]

You get a free Fantasia from the first level 50 main story quest. You can gain extra hair styles from grinds, loot and the market board and there is an aesthetician you can use to change it.

The price is not made cheaper in other currencies because they fear people from the US would just buy using those currencies to get a cheaper deal.

I have seen worse character creators but I have also seen better ones, so I would say it's in the middle and that it's good enough. The game supports PS4 which do not all have an SSD, so until support for that is dropped there is no chance of the game not taking into account people with a HDD.

You can already toggle the detail and lighting on a character. I don't think the detail on armor is a problem, but maybe you have only seen armor from ARR with lower resolutions than the latest ones.



SQEX regularly advertises in YouTube and Twitch adverts, on major game channels like IGN and GameSpot and at shows like E3, Gamescom and PGW. There are regular interviews on many gaming websites.

IGN https://youtu.be/2XbxPsWFyU8
GameSpot https://youtu.be/b0lIlB7SVyg
E3 https://youtu.be/0k6QHeAmY58
Gamescom https://youtu.be/cCaCtmJZ9xE
PGW https://youtu.be/Dn42qwlQ0t4

Adverts
https://youtu.be/gBjOs4ZgMY4
https://youtu.be/d-lsLrRTCh0
https://youtu.be/j8aS43vOSUU
https://youtu.be/emVE9cTIyzQ

A larger advertising campaign was suspended during COVID-19 so that it didn't look like the misfortune of everyone being at home was being taken advantage of.

Dunno why people keep bringing up ps4. They’ve said over and over they’ve barely scratched the surface of what ps4 can do. It’s their engine holding them back not ps4 lmao

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They also advertise in movie theaters, especially around expansion launches.

[RitsukoSonoda]

FFXI had very little advertising in the west. FFXIV wasnt much better tbh. I think the west got 1 commercial on normal television channels back when 2.0 launched. I think there are some now that pop up on stuff like crunchyroll.

The character creator is a bit dated. IMO it was a bit dated even when the game was new in regards to customization options but it didnt bother alot of players back when the game was new because it was a large improvement from FFXI which was where as sizable if not majority of the initial player base came from with the FFXIV 1.0 launch. However I will say the dated character creator's limited options does have atleast 1 upside and that would be that this game has far less issues of player characters not being visible that I've seen on other titles that have a far more in depth character editor causing you to see a large amount of basic looking placeholders while the game locates all the specific elements needed to construct other player's characters on screen. Not really a issue in small amounts... can be problematic when there are alot of people present such as high traffic areas in a game.

[Kolsykol]

Tbh I wish that the barber just allowed you to fully customize your character again ( except race and gender, I understand Fantasia for that ).
But stuff like eye color etc should be customizable imo.

As far as marketing goes I don't think that Japanese games really get much marketing to begin with, but FFXIV have actually had some big commercials.
I can't even remember any marketing for games like DMC5 or the RE remakes tho for example.
Usually when I see ads for games it just ads for the same rehashed games ala Assassins Creed or the next CoD or EA games.
Word of mouth or just looking around myself is how I find most games.