Petition to fix Miqo'te Face 2 Eyebrows

[Metool42]

you should add the + tail too and not hiding tails and ears with some gear

None of these are a new or even related issue. So no. Plus i want less gear to hide ears and tail, not more.


Anyways, it's now day 433 since we are being ignored by staff about an actual bug that has been reported since the beginning of the Dawntrail benchmark.

[Tahli]

Remember what we once had! And what we could have again, if they fixed the thin eyebrow bug and tweaked the shape to be more like it used to be!
How our brows originally had an actual, carefully made shape. An outer corner that was tapered and softer than the more full inner corner! How emotes gave unique expressions with emotions that weren't just "angry >:|" on the eyebrows!


[Eyebrow type 2]








[Eyebrow type 4]

Resting face. Brow 4 was angled higher than Brow 2, but it wasn't angry! It had a curve, and an impish and playful look to it.




Two angles of a scowl, a temporary expression where the eyebrows are supposed to be angrier. Even then, some parts of the brow still had a soft, downward curve. It looked natural, nowhere near as overexaggerated or scary as they do now!

(All screenshots are from before 7.0)



Never forget how well done these eyebrows originally were! If they could do it once, they can do it again!

[Metool42]

I honestly cannot fathom how this just will not be adressed at all anymore. Sure, it's a fraction of the player base playing that race with that face and gender, i get that. But not even being acknowledge anymore is just not fair.

Played that character with that face for almost 10 years, and now i'm just being told by people who don't care that it looks the same or better. No the heck it doesn't. Don't tell me my character of 10 years improved when she's actually just gone. Don't tell me spock-eyebrows in cutscenes where she's angry are normal.

[Tahli]

The people who don't care, wouldn't care one way or another. The people who don't notice a difference... probably never played a character with this face before 7.0.

There's no reasonable person who can say this looks "better" than before. Change is one thing but it should never be a whole downgrade from the way it used to look. It's inexcusable.

[Tahli]

Here's how the mobile version of FF14 did Miqo'te face 2's eyebrows:



https://i.imgur.com/LTejyVC.jpeg


They still got some things wrong, like how they're still too short, not curved enough, and don't fade enough into a tapered outer tip. But it's at least a little closer to the original shape and color than what we have currently, and not crushed thin at the inner corner.

I'd prefer it over what we have in the main game now, but would most prefer a shape closer to what we had originally.

[Metool42]

Wow, even the mobile version is closer to what it should be.

That says something. I would not have nearly as many problems with it if it was like that. Hell, i'll accept my character looking like PS3 era if it means having her friendly face back.

[Valence]

[glitteringcosmos]

bumping this in solidarity. with love, a face 4 male miqo player suffering similar issues

[Metool42]

First is Endwalker, second is Dawntrail
Tell me again how they're "the same."

Square, i'll pay literal money to just play the unbugged version.

[Tahli]

The shape and the emotion it conveys are totally off in the Dawntrail one, yeah.

If anyone has ingame screenshots of this face with eyebrows 1, 3, or 5, I'd love to see how those looked before too.