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[SchwarzwaelderTorte]

Cool, thanks!

Yeah I'd say in your case the eyes do look like an improvement overall, I see what you were going for with them.
(this does not automatically invalidate everyone else's feedback though, just to be clear!)

However, since we're using the same face, I'm noticing the same change in expression. If you pay attention to the corner of the lips, the shadow in your Endwalker screenshots is going slightly upwards, whereas in Dawntrail it goes slightly downwards.
It is a small change, but to me, especially with Face 1 who looks relatively stoic compared to the other faces, this makes her go from "slightly happy, just chilling" to "slightly worried, something bad is about to happen", and even if that reflects my current mood very well, I'd rather not have her look like that in cutscenes where she has no specific facial animation.
(ironically, to me the change does make her look like "she just came from a 10 hour shift/sick of dealing with everybody problems")
I don't know if this is something you've noticed as well, or something you care about at all, but I still want to point it out just in case.

I also don't know which eyebrows you're using, but if you ever plan to change hairstyles (even if right now you think "no, never" there is still a chance they'll add more hairstyles) it might be worth comparing the eyebrows as well.
For me the change in Eyebrows 1 (the part the closest to the forehead scale is slightly raised) added to that worried expression, and this didn't show with some hairstyles, but since I'll be using the one I have on my lodestone profile right now, it's a problem for me.

Anyway, overall, besides the pupil size which you really care about (which really should be an option because opinions are very divided on that!), I don't think any of the grievances people have brought up would go against anything you like about the changes?

So I'm not really sure I understand why you've been so dismissive and antagonistic with everyone's feedback? (especially for someone who first replied to me saying "I also don't like arguing in general"......)

You like your new limbal rings, cool, the color and overall impression doesn't seem to have changed that much in your case. They changed a lot in mine though, that's my problem!

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Anyway, overall, besides the pupil size which you really care about (which really should be an option because opinions are very divided on that!), I don't think any of the grievances people have brought up would go against anything you like about the changes?

So I'm not really sure I understand why you've been so dismissive and antagonistic with everyone's feedback? (especially for someone who first replied to me saying "I also don't like arguing in general"......)

You like your new limbal rings, cool, the color and overall impression doesn't seem to have changed that much in your case. They changed a lot in mine though, that's my problem!

Honestly...I truly wouldn't have ever posted if I didn't see so many people complaining about the main thing that I like.
Usually it was always mixed in with other complaints so it was always hard to tell what people were even agreeing with as it was never just singled out which made me think people probably didn't hate it as much as they hate the lips because it was either lips + other things or its just only the lips. Wasn't sure if they were liking the post because of the different lips? scales? eyebrows? or eyes?

I want to say it was even worst in the JP side because even though it was very quite obviously only the face 4 just wanting EVERYTHING reverted they still included the change I liked and they were extremely detailed >.> (which chain reacted to making NA/EU people doing the same thing) which made me look on different SNS to prove people like au ra and since au ra's didn't change much from 1.0 to 1.1 it kinda proved my point SE saw people liked the au ra but even with yoshi-p words; I think people saying things can still change because yoshi-p words was pretty ambiguous(because he said things like bulk of the changes) so some light changes could still be adjusted so I again went digging for positive feedback for au ra's to show people love it like me.
Since you're never going to see much positive feedback here since the forums is usually negative feedback and as I said before; People that are happy don't have a need to say they're happy, only people that are unhappy will speak up.

I've been pretty defensive in defending the new au ra because people keep trying to revert things and change it before I even got a change to even play it.
If people were asking for options I wouldn't have cared personally but people ask for reversions and these reversions (imo-in my opinion) I think are ugly....comparatively(in my case I'm talking about the eyes, not lips or anything else). Like after seeing au ra new eyes I just personally can't understand how someone could like the old over the new.
Yeah I don't like to argue but I'm sure you're aware everytime I said anything, someone replied back to me trying to either dismiss me or put words in my mouth which made me reply back. I even got called a trolled for some reason which made me upset, all because I'm defending the new au ra and trying to show proof by posting X/Reddit posts.
Either way...DT is almost here I don't think I have anything left to prove my case about au ra's. I finally posted my pics and explain what I liked along with the links in my other post. The final decision is SE and If you felt I was rude to you "Es tut mir leid" I apologize.
If anything changes (because I saw the problem you had got accepted in the jp bug submit) gratz! and if it doesn't hope you can still enjoy dawntrail.