[Character Graphics Update]: Second Benchmark Worries

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"Overall appearance of player characters will be altered as little as possible" -from one of the slideshows in Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVIII

As little as possible could mean anything honestly.
Some changes might've required more change than others even if those bigger changes were the minimum they could do in those cases.

We'll just have to wait and see what'll happen down the road.

Edit:
That's even what "Possible" implies.
That chances are that it isn't possible to keep the changes minor for some.

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As little as possible could mean anything honestly.
Some changes might've required more change than others even if those bigger changes were the minimum they could do in those cases.

We'll just have to wait and see what'll happen down the road.

Edit:
That's even what "Possible" implies.
That chances are that it isn't possible to keep the changes minor for some.

Changing lip shape that is 90% texture is not really some impossible herculean task, really. It's called using a reference, which I'm aware that a lot of forum goes here tell on themselves they could not do, but the people at Square Enix are paid professionals.
I've also been seeing a lot of people in other threads trying to gaslight people into it either being a full revert back to pre DT or current whatever changes, no inbetween.. It really wouldn't take too much to tweak the new faces to resemble the old ones more.

That aside the "We're really putting a lot of priority on not changing the image you have of your own character in your head. We want to make sure your characters still look the way that you enjoy them now." part of the quote is a lot more obvious in regards to the intent in my opinion. It shouldn't be the people who are satisfied with their character having to look for other options ( many of which fantasia won't fix ) but rather the people who want something new. Square has shown they're willing to make customization available that's literally a copy paste of previous face but with a beard on midlander, so I don't see why they couldn't add the new batch of crack customization for those that want it eventually after they nail down the actual current look. Because here's the thing, they've been able to make do with the current customization and in the majority of the times they don't even see the difference, so what will some more waiting do? As opposed to people who may have been playing for a decade and are suddenly altered with no options to fix besides breaking TOS, it's not even close.

At the end of the day we do have to wait and see, but I find the attitude of some forum goers very reminiscent of those shutting down Hrothgar/Viera grievances since they weren't affected, so it obviously doesn't matter.