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

[Doopliss]

The reason something that was approved earlier and celebrated widely by players as being a positive change has now been heavily criticized? Because it has been applied to our own familiar characters. These changes on that less familiar face were easier to view as a whole. On our own characters, these same small changes now more easily picked up as being 'different' and are becoming a huge fixation for many players.

This is also something I can kind of understand your frustration with. I think what's more so happening, however, is that people are getting tricked by these still example images more than anything. They're deliberately taken to look as similar as possible, and in custom lighting to showcase changes all around. The Miqo'te face is actually the same as we have now--all the faces are actually the exact same--as when they first announced they were changing the way heads work. The only time they were different is in the very first preview from the NA Fanfest, when they were using the old head models.

All in all, this is a part of my concern, actually, because it does give the implication they have not been touched at all since London Fanfest, aside from editing the limbal rings to glow a little again. You can notice that even the Auri woman's pupils are still gigantic there, and Male Midlander Face 1 has the same, strange nose change as in the benchmark, and the same darkened lash line, for some examples.

When we finally get to see our characters head-on like this, however, we can more easily pick up the differences, and see things outside of their most ideal environments. As a petty defense for myself, however, I, for one, have been whining about the pupil size increase since London.

EDIT: I also wanted to mention again, they only ever showed mostly the same select few faces during both Fanfests that included the new head changes, which made things even more limited and disingenuous for players. Most of these were Face 1s, though they showed a few other Midlander faces here and there.