Give back pre-DT models back NOW

[Kaelah]

If they do that then we will just see a "Give us back the DT models NOW" thread. Can't please everyone - I'm in the pro update crowd, if they went back, I'd be unhappy.

[xivYuiM]

We never asked to destroy the game like this, so many years being so perfectly good and now is pure sad and irritating to play with these cartoonish, foolish, emotionless and lifeless models

Why?

New models are better and absolutely close enough to the old ones to pass as "the same character". 98% of people wouldn't notice if you changed details of their character without telling them. I have been using the same moonie face 3 since 2014 and, while it was weird to see it changed to the new model for the first hour or so, I really can't get over how much better the characters look now. Especially the eyes. New models are 10/10.

[juicybug]

i think they need to touch the models up some more, not just smooth them out and make them shiny
add actual tone to them and more hairstyles unique to them, more options overall. and better eyebrows.

[Naoki34]

We never asked to destroy the game like this, so many years being so perfectly good and now is pure sad and irritating to play with these cartoonish, foolish, emotionless and lifeless models

Why?

Give me back my chocolate, I prefer the other one there...
Hmm...

[Cheapshot]

The thing I’m not getting is, if so many of you are telling others that the changes are so little and subtle that you don’t even notice them, then why be so hostile to people who want a few more subtle changes to recapture some of their original look? You didn’t notice or care about the differences so why would you notice or care about more? The lighting and some of the textures are improved. Your characters are still going to look “better”.

Bemoaning people complaining that they were attached to the features they spent years with sounds a bit silly coming from people acting attached to features they’ve spent a week with.

[HeyMcFly]

if the old textures were optional and dont affect people who like them, i see no harm in giving them back to players who want them

I get it, i was attached to face 4 on miqo but it isn't as pretty now so I swapped faces

[OliverQ]

I'm very happy with my new model.

[Iscah]

I don't understand how anyone can say the old graphics were somehow better.... 7.0 was a massive improvement visually.

Asking for the old models is not the same thing as asking for the old graphics.

We were told we'd be getting the same appearances – or as close to it as they could keep – and instead we have been given many seemingly arbitrary changes.

But yall are still gonna go play with your characters right?

Am I, indeed?

I've put countless hours into this game and my specific characters. Posting glamours on Eorzea Collection has been one of my biggest hobbies for some time.

I'll finish MSQ with the girl who is at best almost-but-not-quite Aurelie, and at worst a puffy-faced stranger with a bored resting face and uncanny smile – it varies with the angle and lighting but sadly is more frequently the latter.

Then I'll play a bit with the alts that pre-"upgrade" I was hoping to take into Dawntrail next, and see if they feel anything more like themselves once in motion, because they don't feel it at all so far. U'zolwe (face 4 Miqo'te) has lost his sharp and alert look that defined his character to me; Haru (face 3 Au Ra) has gone the opposite way and his soft-for-an-Au Ra face has become harsher and cruel-looking. Most of my other characters have had similar changes of mood, and it saps my enthusiasm to play even the few remaining.

As it stands, I have no desire to play them any more – no desire to play with glamours, no desire to take new screenshots and place these impostors alongside the originals as the same character.

Unless the faces are either reverted to their original shapes or new faces added so old and new are separate options, my characters are gone right now, and I don't think I can get them back.

New models are better and absolutely close enough to the old ones to pass as "the same character". 98% of people wouldn't notice if you changed details of their character without telling them.

So the people who wouldn't notice the change, also won't notice or care if it changes again.

And no, the models are not close enough to pass as the same characters. Some can, others are a long way off.

I am fairly sure this is intended to be the same expression, for example:



The new face isn't just "not the same", it's simply not even a pleasant face to look at half the time. The art style probably never would have hooked me if the faces looked like this when I started the game.

A surprising amount of joy came from just seeing my character in cutscenes and how pretty she looked. Now she just looks puffy and strangely modelled – the eyes have big fleshy rims in the outer corners and the space between nose and mouth has a bizarre pinched-inwards shape as if she's puckering her lips at all times. There is no setting that will get rid of this.

I'll finish Dawntrail, I'll play through the Arcadion story, but I have no desire to spend any more time with this changeling than I have to.

[BunnyQueen]

We never asked to destroy the game like this, so many years being so perfectly good and now is pure sad and irritating to play with these cartoonish, foolish, emotionless and lifeless models

Why?

They really could have done better.

[Merrigan]

Came back to the forum.

See, once again, a Karen thread about a random opinion.

*Sigh*