What I noticed in the character creation video.

[Hulan]

I believe ... like the other races... that the other implemented content is simply not selectable at this time

First, to make it clear, I love the character creator video and everything in it. But this argument doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. The other races and classes are there, but grayed out. Meanwhile, the number of hair, face, etc options is explicitly defined. I personally would not be put out if what we saw here is what we get, though I would not say no to more options; but I would not get your hopes up too high that they are going to release more options.

The reps have responded to the issue, saying that there would be more options, but their response was rather evasive. I'm holding out cautious optimism for more, but I honestly am not expecting much.

[Tonkra]

We have FAR MORE to worry about if they spent longer than a few months on the CC.

do believe it or not.. there are different teams working on different things.. i doubt that any other development department will be affected by it.

and indeed the char creation is ONE BIG important factor.. its what new players see for their first time when logging into the game.. and when they see (oh i have just 4 faces to chose from, 1-2 scars? wtf? clonewars?)

especially in a game like FFXIV where individuality should be even more important, because you play for 80% of the time the one and only character.


they want to show a new editor? with almost exactly the character indiviualisations?
its just the presentation which changed greatly.

[Munba]

what if not? ;XD 1 1/2 years of developing the char editor.. and then they are going to implement the other hairstyles within 2 months till beta oder what? really doubtful.

Probably they already made the more hairstyle but not implemented because every alpha phase has more elements to check. The first phase has basic things and so on.

[Erics_Asura]

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUmRujYUrA
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I was going to post PSO2 character creation video too. ;;

[Meatdawg]

I was going to post PSO2 character creation video too. ;;

All I got out of the PSO2 CC is you can make some really unproportional characters...

[Erics_Asura]

You must have never played any of the PSO series then.

[Inaaca]

First, to make it clear, I love the character creator video and everything in it. But this argument doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. The other races and classes are there, but grayed out. Meanwhile, the number of hair, face, etc options is explicitly defined. I personally would not be put out if what we saw here is what we get, though I would not say no to more options; but I would not get your hopes up too high that they are going to release more options.

The reps have responded to the issue, saying that there would be more options, but their response was rather evasive. I'm holding out cautious optimism for more, but I honestly am not expecting much.

It does stand up, because all the grayed out options you mentioned were just clickable text. But the options we're talking about (such as hair or face) have clickable thumbnail icons. It stands to reason that if they haven't finished those yet or don't want to reveal them, then they wouldn't have icons for them either to gray out in the first place.

[Zantetsuken]

please show me one that looks better

Since you asked... (PSO2 got nothing on Eve)

But yes, I agree with the OP, the Character creator in this game is fantastic and will be even better once we have the final version.

[Psykotsu]

All I got out of the PSO2 CC is you can make some really unproportional characters...

If that's all you got out of PSO2's character customization, then you might have a limited imagination. Yes, you can make make characters who are disproportional, but when it comes down to it, the uniqueness that each character has in that game far surpasses what XIV has allowed.

Yea, I know it's in alpha, but Elexia posted the vid to counter the OP's point #1.

[RoosterAgathos]

Okay okay there are some very polished character creations out there.. but i did not get the feeling of "wow i cant wait to play that game".