What I noticed in the character creation video.

[bobbygunz]

People don't realise that by saying "it's alpha" they're actually just agreeing with people who say "it can be improved".

It's so futile these debates when everyone's just agreeing with eachother and don't realise it.

[RoosterAgathos]

Where have I heard this before?

You heard it in the game that you apparently never stopped playing. Go sit in the corner and eat your glue.

[Molly_Millions]

Where have I heard this before?

The difference is this time they've actually told us there will be more options when last time testers just assumed there would be.

[Yucie]

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.

[Yucie]

People don't realise that by saying "it's alpha" they're actually just agreeing with people who say "it can be improved".

It's so futile these debates when everyone's just agreeing with eachother and don't realise it.

It's alpha. It's alpha. It's alpha.

In case your reading comprehension escapes you, they've already confirmed that features for the CC will be greatly expanded upon in upcoming builds.

But lets just be broken records. lol

[Gramul]

You heard it in the game that you apparently never stopped playing. Go sit in the corner and eat your glue.

Just saying, careful when throwing that phrase around. We where promised many things when it was in alpha the first time and none of that fell through.

Hell, we where promised that whole earth spire thing would appear as meteor began to alter the whole field of energy as a part of the end of the world event, and that never came through.

Just don't use it as an excuse.

And I'll have you know, I eat no simple schoolyard glue. I dine on only the finest industrial grade adhesives from France.
Merci beaucoup.

[Abriael]

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUmRujYUrA

Aren't we lucky that FFXIV: ARR doesn't look that crappy...

[Warlock]

Aren't we lucky that FFXIV: ARR doesn't look that crappy...

For real lol

[Abriael]

Also, extremely free slider character creation is VERY overrated. What it generates is exactly what happened in PSO2, with horribly deformed characters making for the 50% of the game's population.

I don't know about you, but I'm interested in playing FFXIV, not Rocky Horror Picture Show Online.

[Shougun]

Also, extremely free slider character creation is VERY overrated. What it generates is exactly what happened in PSO2, with horribly deformed characters making for the 50% of the game's population.

I don't know about you, but I'm interested in playing FFXIV, not Rocky Horror Picture Show Online.

I dont care about the sliders - I saw the sombrero and I mentally rage quit the video.. lol

Would be like torches lighting a space station >.>