Petition to fix Miqo'te Face 2 Eyebrows

[Tahli]

Are you or someone you know a proud ♀ Miqo'te who uses Face 2?


Are you unhappy that your eyebrows went from this (Endwalker and before)



And then this (April Benchmark)



To this? (Current brows)



Did you choose a hairstyle, headwear, face paint or Sun Seeker-exclusive "bushy brows" facial feature just to cover those sharp eyebrows?

Did you choose Brow option #2 because all the other options looked too crazy or extreme?

Are your Miqo'te Face 2 eyebrows too dark for your hair color?

Would you have considered choosing Face 2 if it weren't for the eyebrows?

If you could change anything about this face's current eyebrows, would you?


Right now, these brows are considered "working as intended."

So if you answered yes to one or more of these questions, show your support in this topic!!




More details:

With this eyebrow issue in particular, there are two separate problems going on. The first is that, like many others who have shared feedback, the updated design of these eyebrows isn't as close to the original shape and appearance as they should be. In the first Dawntrail benchmark, the angle was too sharply upturned, and the length was shorter.

But the second is a less common issue, in that since the second Dawntrail benchmark, there's been a genuine bug/texture mapping error that caused the whole eyebrow to get condensed, and crushed thin.

It should be stated that there was a specific line in the official Lodestone response to character graphics feedback:

"Most feedback received on eyelashes and eyebrows falls into the previous category, but we've found that many players are satisfied with the current resolution and shapes. Therefore, we will take caution when proceeding with adjustments."

In the case of Female Miqo'te Face 2, many of us strongly disagree with this assumption. Patiently waiting for something that is clearly broken to be fixed in the 7.1 update is very different from "satisfied." Since the 7.1 update had passed with no changes to our features, this petition felt needed.


So please, Square Enix, make our eyebrows closer to how they originally looked. The shape, the length, the width, the angle, the color and softening gradient at parts where hairs should be thinner. The effort would be very much worth it, and I hope we can look at a future update to this and tell you thanks for fixing this issue.

[mallleable]

Oh, I'm a face 2, and just noticing this, and now I can't unsee it. Please fix.

It's almost like the eyebrow style, and number got mixed up somehow.

[glitteringcosmos]

They keep throwing all miqote eyebrow reports under "working as intended", male and female, and frankly it's infuriating. The eyebrows are ugly, Squeenix. Please fix them back to the way they were in 6.55.

[Valence]

Yeah I'm not too happy about it either.

[Tahli]

Oh, I'm a face 2, and just noticing this, and now I can't unsee it. Please fix.

It's almost like the eyebrow style, and number got mixed up somehow.

Yeah, they almost seem like they were mixed up with the thinner and less detailed eyebrows of faces 1 and 3.
And the way they ALL got pinched thin at the base in the newest version looked so much like a bug, but apparently not?

[Rin_Sato]

Yeah...
They are ignoring this issue outright, or one of the moderators prefers the new look and is spitefully incorrectly labelling things...
Bug reports:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...or-of-eyebrows ("Working as intended")
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...raphical-issue ("Duplicate Bugs")
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...raphical-issue ("Duplicate Bugs")
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...t-in-Dawntrail ("Insufficient Information")

Forum posts (not listing this thread as you are here):
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...78#post6580078
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...08#post6596508
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ws-2-4-Changes

[Daralii]

Yeah, they almost seem like they were mixed up with the thinner and less detailed eyebrows of faces 1 and 3.
And the way they ALL got pinched thin at the base in the newest version looked so much like a bug, but apparently not?

"Eyebrows looking like lines drawn on with a sharpie is intended, thanks for subscribing."

[glitteringcosmos]

Here was my bug report, moved to "working as intended": https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...s-Behave-Oddly

[Valence]

Yeah, they almost seem like they were mixed up with the thinner and less detailed eyebrows of faces 1 and 3.
And the way they ALL got pinched thin at the base in the newest version looked so much like a bug, but apparently not?

Because it's obvious that they changed the UV texture mapping of the 3D mesh by adjusting the mesh without readjusting the textures behind.

[Tahli]

Because it's obvious that they changed the UV texture mapping of the 3D mesh by adjusting the mesh without readjusting the textures behind.

So maybe technically not a bug? --But definitely an oversight, and not how they should look. Could be that the issue in Glitteringcosmos' report was caused by the same thing.