Can we PLEASE get new/more options for our characters?

[NekoHina]

Just as the title says, can we please get more options for our characters. Yes, while I would love to have the ability to change the size and shape of my character, I know this is not going to happen in this game.

However, there are hairstyles and eye/hair colors already in the game that could easily be shared among the races. I have wanted Yotsuyu’s hair since I first saw her in game and I found out that Auras have it as an option! There are also Hyur and Viera styles that we (Miqote) do not have and vice versa.

Additionally, we clearly see characters in game with a variety of different options from more than one race or see Miqote with slitted pupils AND fangs. So it shows that it CAN be done. So please, instead of all of the other graphic advancements that you have made and are still working on…I would so much rather have other options for my character. We have had little to nothing in 10 whole years! It is an embarrassment to have so few options in a game in 2024 when I get more on a mobile phone game.

I appreciate all of the work that you have done so far (though I personally would rather those advancements be toward character creation options), going forward will you please put your efforts toward our character creation? I do not need to see how lovely the grass moves or the water reflections if that is a choice against how my character looks and how I can change her up.

While on the subject, please lift the limit between some race/job apparel. Much of the earlier stuff is all classes and (other than artifact gear) if that were to happen with the majority of fashions nowadays, it would greatly increase our options with very little work your end. Same for sharing hair/color options.

After all this time and I cannot get a decent tan skin tone on a moon cat so that my character can have fangs, ear clips and a beauty mark. I get the lore behind the races, but they have been living together now for 10 years and I am sure many have cross-bred, so it only makes sense that we could have options for a blended race (in my case between sun and moon cat). Please help make this a possibility. I beg of you as someone who has not missed a day of subscription since the ARR beta. I have supported you, so please support our characters in game. Thank you very much.

— Hina

[Gralna]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is slated for 8.0. Before then though, highly unlikely to be worked on during patch cycles considering how large of an update this would need to be, to be done right and not just make people angry with a half effort attempt. So likely wouldn't even hear anything about this till about a year to six months out from next expansion.

[Rikizza]

YES!! I just posted something about this. Hair and gear restrictions need to go. And give us more eyeshapes, lip shapes, makeup, ect. Would also love bodyshapes. It would just make everyone happy and its not THAT much work to them, and they would earn money from it in the end because they would get even more players.

[VerdeLuck]

After we can get headgear and the all-race haristyles on Viera, right now 2 arces have vastly less glam options than the others for no reason.

[lolnotacat]

I doubt it would ever happen, but my main is a Xaela and all I want is for horns to be independent from faces. I want Xaela Face 3 with Face 2 horns so much.

[Mapleine]

After we can get headgear and the all-race haristyles on Viera, right now 2 arces have vastly less glam options than the others for no reason.

To any older players, what the hell happened to hairstyles in XIV?

I feel like through Stormblood they were showering us with cool hairstyles, then after ShB they just do short cuts and bobs when they feel like it.

[KisaiTenshi]

To any older players, what the hell happened to hairstyles in XIV?

I feel like through Stormblood they were showering us with cool hairstyles, then after ShB they just do short cuts and bobs when they feel like it.

That was when the DX11 upgrade happened, but they were still supporting the DX9 version. Dawntrail is the first version that no longer supports 32-bit/DX9.

Like it can not be understated that just to "keep" DX9 support they had to nerf the DX11 support to the same feature set. If you had it in 64-bit DX11 mode, you saw a prettier game, but it was still using DX9-era features.

It may still be a while before the developers actually update/re-export all models for DT. Hair seems to have been overlooked as most characters zoomed in, still look like they have low resolution textures that are even lower resolution than their clothing. Long hair requires having hair physics, otherwise the long hair will clip into the body, which, see the problem with tails and capes.

But hair is complicated. Check out VRoid, and try to make a "hair style" in it. It's not simple at all even when given easy-mode tools, because there's more to it than just geometry and a texture. There's lighting, physics (which FFXIV sadly has very little of) and gravity physics.

Like some of the silliest things that happen in this game are where the physics "should do something else" but do not. For example, riding a mount. People wearing a skirt or a "skirt-like" outfit, should be riding side-saddle on all mounts that don't have an actual seat. All Miqo'te, Au-ra and Hrothgar should sit in "chairs" differently (eg sitting on the edge to accomodate their tail) not just sitting down and having it clip through.

But more to the point, I just wish clothing respected the tails and ears. Forgetting about fashion wings for a moment, the most visually distracting thing this game does, is tails clipping. Is it so much to ask just to have clothing not clip through the tail like it's not there? Can we get some simple cloth physics and a collision point at the base of the tail so that the cloth flows around it?

Can we get some simple hair physics so that pony/pig tails actually bounce off shoulders and not into them? So longer hair actually flows down the back and not into it? I know it'll never be possible to make some hair styles not clip without making them processing heavy, but some of these issues with hair, ears and tails feel like the developers not caring, rather than "optimizing"

[GrizzlyTank]

Have a hunch that the character settings were optimized down to the bits, leaving some setting with at most 4-8 options without having to rewrite stuff.

[SynTepes]

I feel this, I'd love for Au'ra horns to no be attached to their faces.
I'd also love for miqo markings to not be tied to their faces as well. I only use face 2 on my girl because its the markings I prefer most. T n T

[NekoHina]

I agree with all of your concerns about the options for various races. I also agree that I would much prefer how the clothing moves and conforms to body movements, as well as how the hair moves. After 10 years of this game, we deserve to have more options for our characters. I understand how other things were deemed more important for this update, but most of the things I can see in game PALES in comparison to what could be done with my WoL.

I could almost handle it if they did come out and say that we were definitely doing it for 8.0, but I am not sure I would have faith in that. There are many things that have been promised and have never materialized.

On a related “glamour” note, There are still to be weapons added for some of the older glam models like Tsukuyomi’s line of weapons. There are none for the new jobs and dancers and other weapons are still missing. This is my favorite weapon glam, alongside the Fae King styles. I realize that weapon glams for PCT and VPR might take a while, but they should have included some of the older, popular glams for the new jobs (as well as the missing older jobs).

I do not mean to make a nuisance of myself by continuing to request these things for my (our) avatars, but I would just like for the devs to see the requests. It is long past time that these types of items were made available to us.10 years and nothing is not cool.