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

[Iscah]

I think, while there are some actual changes that need to be addressed such as texture opacity and lips, saying you're "mourning" a videogame is generally just indicative of an overly unhealthy attachment to an ephemeral concept in your computer. What will you do, 10 years down the line, when XIV shuts down?
Either way, there's changes to be addressed, but this thread is a crash course on how not to do it. Look at the JP masterpost of criticism. Civil, proper with proper alternatives.
Please remember, it's only a videogame. Go outside and take a deep breath. Things will be ok, just a little bit different.

As I said, yeah it's an overstatement to actually call it mourning, but I think it has to be somewhere in that ballpark of emotion to at least a slight degree if a thing you like is going to be taken away from you permanently.

And yes, when the game shuts down I will also be sad, but at the same time that will happen when it's either a natural conclusion point or there's no other choice, and I simply won't be able to play any more – rather than this bizarre potential middle ground of the character still technically existing as a playable entity in the game but not being the same character any more, because face alterations have changed the personality that their face suggests.

I spun these characters from the impression that their appearance gave me, and now – if these changes go through as they are shown – that foundation is going to shift and they won't be themselves.

A character who looked calm and thoughtful now looks aggressive.

A character who looked friendly now looks cruel.

Minor changes, objectively, in the shape of things resolve into a picture unlike what existed before, and I don't know if I can play those characters any more while knowing how they should look and do not look any more.

I think it feels almost worse than the game ending altogether – not that I would prefer the game to shut down, of course, but it's a very different mood to have the character lost because the game is gone, versus the game still being playable but your character doesn't exist any more because someone decided that their face didn't have the right look.