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

[Ath192]

I don't think there's a world where this is even remotely close, every single feature on the face is different, and it also looks like she was deaged about 15 years.

It's not even that it looks neccessarily bad but that's not my character.

I am genuinely struggling to tell the difference. Not to be dismissive of your opinion but provide perspective from a third party observation point. I think a lot of times we obsess over extremely minute details others can't perceive or notice and think everyone notices. So I'm just letting you know, in my world at least, that looks like the same cat. Just a bit more HD.

[Zaniel]

To be honest a graphical update without a character creator update was an extremely stupid decision by CBU3. With more adaptability to customise facial features without being locked to presets 99% of these issues could be avoided.

[Aimed]

Yeah, I quit the game and moved away from the WoW's awful graphical update.

Same I ended up quitting WoW and losing my cute tauren was 80% of it at the time.
(edit - 8 out of my 9 characters look really good for me in the update, including my main!! They are close. I just think a few combos are unfinished, hopefully)

[cakesphere]

Same I ended up quitting WoW and losing my cute tauren was 80% of it at the time.

I didn't quit WoW altogether but it was a huge impetus for me ending up race changing from belf to nightborne...they massacred my boy. Did end up quitting in bfa though. What a mess.

[WiccaP]

Wow, some of y'all need to chill. Yes there are some issues with the graphics update, but I'm pretty sure even Endwalker's benchmark didn't show the full range of character creation options that were released with the actual launch. I'm also pretty positive that the graphics on some things in the EW benchmark weren't the same with launch. I would bet money that what we are seeing in the benchmark isn't the 100% finished product that we'll get on release day.

The benchmark is a tool to make sure your system can handle the game and a give another "sneak peak" not give a 100% full look; and you would complain if it did. As graphics get better, harsher angles soften and round out. With heightened lighting systems there's going to be more highs and lows; that change tones, highlights and shadows, etc. That's pretty much how it works. If they only updated the graphics on the environment and world around our characters, we would stick out like a sore thumb and look horrible in contrast.

A lot of us have been playing FF14 for a long time, through good and bad updates. Why? Because ultimately the dev team keeps creating a game worth playing and they usually do right by the player base. So lets have a little faith and trust that DT will follow that tradition. I'm not saying don't voice our concerns, but lets be reasonable in our expectations and criticism. This update is not ruining the game, our characters still look like our characters in 99% of the pictures and vids I've seen and from what I've played around with in the Benchmark. This is just the same phenomenon that happened when TVs went to HD and then 4K.

[NanaWiloh]

I am genuinely struggling to tell the difference. Not to be dismissive of your opinion but provide perspective from a third party observation point. I think a lot of times we obsess over extremely minute details others can't perceive or notice and think everyone notices. So I'm just letting you know, in my world at least, that looks like the same cat. Just a bit more HD.

I see it but I am a retro gamer so the issues in the old one stick out like sore blood covered thumb. Play the original Mario bros cart on a 1080p tv for a hour or two then look at her pics, problems will pop out like daises lol

[LuciaMirain]

It's VERY upsetting to see how your Viera looks in the benchmark. She's far and away one of the more mature and beautiful ones that get posted in the Viera screenshot thread. Face 4 is absolutely suffering from this. They don't look like our WoLs any more.

Thank you! I feel like I am taking crazy pills when people look at the side/side comparison and think it is the same character. Her eyes have lost their glint, her nose looks wider and her cupids bow is gone. Her face looks rounder. It isnt as horrible in the benchmark, but all the small details are gone there as well. She looks smoothed out and like a pixar barbie. I liked her as she was. Someone went overboard with the beautification. Not everyone wants to play a babyface.

[LuciaMirain]

Lol, since I have been playing as a viera since their release I will not have faith in them to fix this. I hope I am proven wrong but we still don't have the paid for hairstyles and most hats are not visible and the ones that are look like hats for children put on my forehead. We can't even wear the artifact gear headpieces ffs. And honestly alot of miqotes are looking very butchered as well. I think this is a case of alot of people having faceblindness.

There should not have been any changes to peoples noses or mouths. Why did they do those changes....? Id love for them to tell us the need for making peoples lips more plump.

[HeyMcFly]

Remember, there are still people who love the updates- but we can be helpful in our feedback.

I love the way my miqo looks in the DT benchmark. I love that she's not forced to wear lipgloss and there is actual texture to her lips. To me she was a 10 and the DT trailer makes her an 11.

Should there be improvements to her anyways? Yes. I'd like her eyebrow color to be restored, as they were originally darker than what the DT benchmark shows. Also, I'd like longer fangs; but I do like the new shape of their teeth just not the shortened fangs.

And the devs have said there will be future improvements on the benchmark website- to quote: "After the release of the benchmark, we will continue to make improvements to the game's visual fidelity in the lead up to the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail."

So be constructive with the feedback and polite.

[Neonbrightface]

It looks like people noticed the flat appearance and lack of deep shadows and highlights. That was bothering me a lot in the trailer. The textures are beautiful, but there's no depth. So everything just looks strange.

I also noticed the waxy look of the faces when they announced it the second time around with all the races. And the lips oh no.