Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUmRujYUrA
2. We can't really determine this until we're playing, but we do know they're making this a standard MMO, so good chance it will play and flow like every other MMO in the past 7 years.

Alpha really means little as you don't really see such a large gap of changes between Alpha and beta (ignoring the obvious), you'll see some different stuff like more shaders and a few more options here and there, but Alpha is pretty much what the final game will be like as the alpha for XIV ARR is a stress test more than a bug finding mission which means they're very confident in the design they have completed.

Btw, there's already a feature in XIV 1.0 that allows you to use other race's hairstyles that isn't active, that will likely be the "more choices for hairstyles" that get put in by late beta or after launch.



We have FAR MORE to worry about if they spent longer than a few months on the CC.
lol PSO2, a game that will die within months because of SEGA being bad at handling a game, especially in the west.

The difference between these two CCs is this main fact; PSO2 uses mostly unisex animations and rigging, pushing uniqueness in race and gender aside so that people can have silly sliders to make people as tall and thin as trees, or short and really round midgets.

FFXIV's character creator is realistic, and judging by the alpha so far, will boast a large number of features to choose from by the time everything is done and implemented. Races and genders will be unique, while games that give up such things will make every character share pretty much the same animations.