Hair colours from the blog

[Myranda]

Not too keen on unnatural hair colors. At least not for the setting.

Stay tuned for more complaints.

If I'm honest I'm not too keen on bright unnatural dyed hair colors being possible either because it doesn't really seem to fit the world's lore. However, I know a lot of people do want this but even more so it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for the sake of having more customization in general because we have more natural options now as well. The moment that someone at SE has to decide what colors are permissible and what aren't in lieu of providing a full color palette, that's when we end up with the somewhat limited choices of 1.x. The best I can do is just make my own character look natural.

I'll spare everyone a diatribe on my opinion of the cutesy tattoos.... I'll just say I really don't like them but I know that seems to be a minority opinion....

But I am 500 million percent thrilled for all the new and longer hairstyles (for both genders), the sliders, and the overall increase in player diversity that shall follow it.

[finiteHP]

I'll spare everyone a diatribe on my opinion of the cutesy tattoos.... I'll just say I really don't like them but I know that seems to be a minority opinion....

I'm with you on that. I'm not a fan of tattoos period. I personally think they ruin a person's natural beauty.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I'm with you on that. I'm not a fan of tattoos period. I personally think they ruin a person's natural beauty.

I agree with you 1,000,000% on that. I LOVE the long hair option, though! Now my Hayley will have longer hair!

[Gramul]

If I'm honest I'm not too keen on bright unnatural dyed hair colors being possible either because it doesn't really seem to fit the world's lore. However, I know a lot of people do want this but even more so it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for the sake of having more customization in general because we have more natural options now as well. The moment that someone at SE has to decide what colors are permissible and what aren't in lieu of providing a full color palette, that's when we end up with the somewhat limited choices of 1.x. The best I can do is just make my own character look natural.

I'll spare everyone a diatribe on my opinion of the cutesy tattoos.... I'll just say I really don't like them but I know that seems to be a minority opinion....

But I am 500 million percent thrilled for all the new and longer hairstyles (for both genders), the sliders, and the overall increase in player diversity that shall follow it.

I'm fine with all the customization in the world, as long as it stays within the confines of the believability of the world you create. Make the tone mesh well enough with the aesthetics you already have, or you're going to get a disjointed art style.
Aion had this problem:

But thankfully we are a far step from that extreme. I just hope the hair color remains at least in a semi believable tone.

Makeup however, does look trashy pretty much no matter what. I also am not a big fan of the tattoos either.

[Myranda]

I'm with you on that. I'm not a fan of tattoos period. I personally think they ruin a persons natural beauty.

I'm cool with the tribal and similar tats. I wouldn't use them on my own character and I don't care for tats much IRL either, but they can fit the game lore as a sort of war paint type idea. But the chickabo and stars... I don't want to run around the game surrounded by middle-school level fashion...

I'm fine with all the customization in the world, as long as it stays within the confines of the believability of the world you create. Make the tone mesh well enough with the aesthetics you already have, or you're going to get a disjointed art style.
Aion had this problem:

But thankfully we are a far step from that extreme. I just hope the hair color remains at least in a semi believable tone.

Makeup however, does look trashy pretty much no matter what. I also am not a big fan of the tattoos either.

Wow, is that image disturbing. Yes, indeed, thank the Twelve we are nowhere near that. I'll disagree to a point about makeup though. The best makeup you won't even notice it's there without a side-by-side comparison. Loud, overt makeup not so much: it takes very special skill and circumstances to pull that off.

[Gramul]

The best makeup you won't even notice

Then why bother? Our characters don't age, they have no blemishes. There's not much that can/needs to be brought out in our complexion, we're kinda designed to have perfect skin from the start. Maybe a little lipstick, I know a lot of people are into bold lips, but the distant levels we get for most of this is just unnecessary.

I do hope they have a salon of sorts so people can change mistakes and not lose their characters.

[Gemma]

Then why bother? Our characters don't age, they have no blemishes. There's not much that can/needs to be brought out in our complexion, we're kinda designed to have perfect skin from the start. Maybe a little lipstick, I know a lot of people are into bold lips, but the distant levels we get for most of this is just unnecessary.

I do hope they have a salon of sorts so people can change mistakes and not lose their characters.

I wouldn't worry, I remember yoshi-p saying that we'll get a barber shop so we can change hair, hair color, face paint/make-up, eye color (think thats it but meh, who knows! lol)

So as far as hairstyle goes guess I'm not gonna stress about that since I'll be able to change it down the road.
And yea as for the facepaints, not a fan myself just cause the new ones look like carnival paint on their face lol, but others seem to like it.

Hair colors being a bit out there doesn't bother me unless its an eye sore lol. But people dye their hair crazy colors all the time so guess people in Eorzea want to cut loose and have green hair sometimes lol ^_^ (think I'll stick with my natural look as well ^_^b)

[Catapult]

Our characters don't age.

Actually, they do - it is more that the game itself is in a sort of time bubble of perpetual 1572, 6th Astral Era. This facilitates story-telling. It may not be realistic, but it's for the greater good.

Before I move onto question two, allow me to veer off onto a little tangent: there have been several threads about Hydaelyn’s timeline not matching up with Earth’s. If it has been two years since the release of the game, why is it still 1572 in Eorzea at the time of patch 1.23? This is a dilemma faced by a lot of MMOs. To allow everyone that joins the game, regardless of when they do, to experience the full story, there simply has to be a stoppage of time. Okay, not really a stoppage, but more of a time bubble in which a span of about a year is contained. This is why that for the duration of 1.0, Eorzea was in a perpetual 1572. Think of it as the same thing that’s happening in the Simpsons. 23 seasons gone and Lisa’s still 8, Maggie’s still a baby, and the gummy Venus still tastes oh, so sacrelicious. Pushing time along would also mean changing 1000s of lines of NPC dialogue, updating quests, webpages, etc. with every patch. Meaning it would take more than double the time to release updates, and I’m sure most people wouldn’t want to wait. In a book, movie, offline game, a strict timeline can be set without too many complications. In an online title, there are just too many variables, so we ask that you bear with our bending of space-time. It’s for the greater good!