Petition to fix Miqo'te Face 2 Eyebrows

[Tahli]

Are you or someone you know a proud ♀ Miqo'te who uses Face 2?


Are you unhappy that your eyebrows went from this (Endwalker and before)

And then this (April Benchmark)

To this? (Current brows)

Did you choose a hairstyle, headwear, face paint or Sun Seeker-exclusive "bushy brows" facial feature just to cover those sharp eyebrows?

Did you choose Brow option #2 because all the other options looked too crazy or extreme?

Are your Miqo'te Face 2 eyebrows too dark for your hair color?

Would you have considered choosing Face 2 if it weren't for the eyebrows?

If you could change anything about this face's current eyebrows, would you?


If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, show your support in this topic!!


Additional notes:

With this eyebrow issue in particular, there are two separate problems going on. The first is that, like many others who have shared feedback, the updated design of these eyebrows isn't as close to the original shape and appearance as they should be. In the first Dawntrail benchmark, the angle was too sharply upturned, and the length was shorter.

But the second is a less common issue, in that since the second Dawntrail benchmark, there's been a genuine bug/texture mapping error that caused the whole eyebrow to get condensed, and crushed thin.

It should be stated that there was a specific line in the official Lodestone response to character graphics feedback:

"Most feedback received on eyelashes and eyebrows falls into the previous category, but we've found that many players are satisfied with the current resolution and shapes. Therefore, we will take caution when proceeding with adjustments."

In the case of Female Miqo'te Face 2, many of us strongly disagree with this assumption. Patiently waiting for something that is clearly broken to be fixed in the 7.1 update is very different from "satisfied." Since the 7.1 update had passed with no changes to our features, this petition felt needed.


So please, Square Enix, make our eyebrows closer to how they originally looked. The shape, the length, the width, the angle, the color and softening gradient at parts where hairs should be thinner. The effort would be very much worth it, and I hope we can look at a future update to this and tell you thanks for fixing this issue.

- - - - - UPDATE AS OF PATCH 7.4 - - - - -
(Jump to discussion after the 7.4 update)

Since the beginning of Dawntrail, two separate issues had been affecting these eyebrows and greatly altered their appearance:
1. Since the first updated graphics of DT Benchmark 1.0, these brows have looked blunt, and the tails are much higher and very straight, no longer having a downward curving taper.
2. Since DT Benchmark 1.1 and onward, the brows had been compressed thin, making them lose their squared inner corner and becoming very dense and lacking detail.

As of 7.4, issue #2 has been fixed, and the shape is essentially the same as it was in Benchmark 1.0. This is an improvement that we're thankful for, but half of the issue still remains.


What We Want:



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Eyebrows are a very expressive facial feature, and even slight differences can greatly alter the personality of a face. While this face has multiple features that differ from the original version, this thread was created because the eyebrows of this face were the most drastically and inaccurately altered of them all.
In order to achieve an accurate graphical update, and for the 7.4 Resolved Issues quote of "An issue with the second female Miqo'te face option wherein eyebrows differed from their appearance prior to Patch 6.58." to be fully true, Issue #1 must be updated as well.
Please, finish adjusting this feature to restore some of this Miqo'te's personality!