Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[Embran]

Question, without any sort of drama or arguments attached; I'm simply curious.

How many people plan to quit over these changes?

[hiedra]

Question, without any sort of drama or arguments attached; I'm simply curious.

How many people plan to quit over these changes?

I doubt that many will quit. It'll be an adjustment. I played 1.0 and it was weird coming over to ARR and seeing how different everything looked. But you get used to it.

I do have some beef with the way my character looks because I feel they took away a lot of his distinct features to make him more "beautiful." But it's not worth quitting over. I read somewhere that they'll give free fantasia's so I'll use that to make adjustments to my character and to improve upon what I now have. It'll take a while to get used to. But ultimately it's not that big of a deal. Outside of taking screenshots I don't spend that much time looking at his face. It's just weird having this massive change after so many years of using the same character model.

[Rudje]

I doubt that many will quit. It'll be an adjustment. I played 1.0 and it was weird coming over to ARR and seeing how different everything looked. But you get used to it.

I do have some beef with the way my character looks because I feel they took away a lot of his distinct features to make him more "beautiful." But it's not worth quitting over. I read somewhere that they'll give free fantasia's so I'll use that to make adjustments to my character and to improve upon what I now have. It'll take a while to get used to. But ultimately it's not that big of a deal. Outside of taking screenshots I don't spend that much time looking at his face. It's just weird having this massive change after so many years of using the same character model.

I mean, a lot of these changes cannot be fixed with fantas. Au Ra are especially impacted as horns and faces are still linked, but most races have limited enough options that changing one detail means there's no recovery if you're trying to match--not to mention how you can't go darker if you're already on the darkest color options. I don't blame anyone for quitting.

I just don't know why they bothered making these changes instead of just upscaling.

[hiedra]

I mean, a lot of these changes cannot be fixed with fantas. Au Ra are especially impacted as horns and faces are still linked, but most races have limited enough options that changing one detail means there's no recovery if you're trying to match--not to mention how you can't go darker if you're already on the darkest color options. I don't blame anyone for quitting.

I just don't know why they bothered making these changes instead of just upscaling.

I'm not saying that I would blame anyone for quitting. But realistically I'm just not sure that will happen with a lot of people. Me personally I have a very toxic love/hate relationship with this game and I keep coming back.

I do agree that fantasia won't fix a lot of problems. My previous face will be impossible to get now. They took away the one feature that I liked about it most. Now he looks completely different. I'm very upset about it, but I am also weak and will continue to play anyway. A lot of people will be on that same boat.

[kanrakuen]

First is benchmark, second is my character in the current character creator.


I have to say that I am also pretty upset about this. To get the same colorations back I would have to change the lip color (currently set to none) and to fix the "dirty" looking skin shadows I would have to add the dirt face paint in a lighter color. The catch lights in the eyes are practically gone.

No free Fantasia will fix the fact that I do not want to play my character like this, that it doesn't feel like my character. I am aware that I am complaining over minor things because other people have definitely been hit worse - but I think it is everyone's right to complain about unwanted changes, especially if they're more drastic (like plastic skin, wrong highlights in the hair, completely changed jaw shapes etc.)

I was looking forward to the benchmark and instead it sucked all motivation to even play Dawntrail out of me. Will I quit? Probably not. Will I start giving SE less money and only sub every other month so I don't lose my housing? Probably.

Between the absolute disaster that the Dawntrail preorder was and THIS, I am at the point where I legit regret preordering.

[Reinha]

I mean, a lot of these changes cannot be fixed with fantas.

You're right and it's quite upsetting. This is pretty much unfixable and it's shocking that there are people who will defend or downplay these unnecessary stylistic changes.



I will be race changing with that free fantasia. There is no way I will be able to return to my current look which I love, so I might as well start from scratch.

[McGrump]

Not a fan of they they did to my Elezen myself. Her eyes are souless now.

[TheDruidOcelot]

Question, without any sort of drama or arguments attached; I'm simply curious.

How many people plan to quit over these changes?

well i havent pre-ordered Dawntrail, and at this point, i don't know if i will, unless square enix makes some kind of noise about fixing making my characters look like ENTIRELY different people. so. a conditional 1, with the caveat being "if the dawntrail msq ends up being an absurdly racist repeat of the blue mage quests, the quitting won't even be quietly disappointed, it will be loudly appalled"

[Tethan]

Question, without any sort of drama or arguments attached; I'm simply curious.

How many people plan to quit over these changes?

I came back to the game when I was very sick for Endwalker, because finally, after so many years since Fran appeared in Stormblood, I could play a male viera. I couldn't play much of Endwalker due to illness, but finally getting better, I come back to this, to my character soon being ruined. I only got one expansion to enjoy this character I have waited for for years. Even just a matter of principle, this is extremely disrespectful to the player base, making unilateral changes to characters without reason or any means to opt out. On top of issues with partyfinder after DC travel was added that was NOT been addressed, DT not having any great hooks in terms of story or gameplay content, it becomes rather hard to justify continuing to pay for this game, Squeenix's cash cow.

[Xeronia]

I haven't pre-ordered and after this showing I doubt I will until as there just seems to be too many issues that shouldn't be present at this point. I do hope there is some official communication about the issues presented by the OP but until then I will take that advice everyone throws around of playing other games.