Unsubbed Thread (Tell us why)

[Aurumis]

My characters are gone. Years of joy seeing them when I log in is gone. They have been replaced with strangers I don't recognize. It's been two months and they still look like strangers. I break down crying when I have to look at their new faces for an extended amount of time. These are the vessels through which I interact with the game world and whose stories I've love to weave over years of writing and artwork. Without them, there may as well be no Final Fantasy XIV to me.

That alone makes it difficult to continue to log in and play. And then I played through Dawntrail.

Nothing could have prepared me for how truly wretched this story is. I preordered and bought the collectors edition of Dawntrail, thinking, "they haven't let me down yet over four expansions, why would they now?

I'm obligated to finish the raid tier with my static, and after that, I'm leaving. Until they SERIOUSLY address the problems with character models and show some actual evidence of fixing the faces and making amends for this insult of an MSQ, I'm done.

I’m considering not renewing once my game time runs out in a month. It will depend on what they do with the character graphics. I’m waiting for the public statement they’ve promised on it in the character graphics thread. They said they’ve delayed to properly translate it.

For me though, I’m so demotivated that the appearance of my Miqo’te changed. I would look past everything else and keep playing happily if my character returned to looking the way I loved. I don’t want to lose the house I finally won recently, but if I unsub depends completely on how they handle the character appearance feedback. I hope they take it seriously. I think they took too lightly peoples attachment to the appearance of their characters of up to 10 years.

This is literal why I'm also unsubscribing. The character graphics made my miqo'te not be him anymore. I had to cope with it for 2 months and I still don't like him, even more in cutscenes he looks just bad. I hate his eyes so much now... I was just doing Summoner's job quest and Y'mithra's eyes looks alive and vivid and perfect and my miqo'te meanwhile has the most deep eyes I've seen in a videogame after this "upgrade". I can't play with this, it's the only thing that makes me stay in the game, If they don't fix it I will just watch streamers and youtubers play the next expansions because I will not continue since I also didn't enjoy DT msq at all.