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K'nahli · **04-30-2015, 10:33 PM**

(04-30-2015, 05:58 PM)Hyrist Wrote:

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The crux of it is, while we are free to make positive estimates on the reaction of the Playerbase, Square Enix, or any game Developer really, have a bad track record of such assumptions.

Also, speculative equivalencies are merely speculative. The Limbal Ring for a Au Ra can be the equivalent of a tattoo Hyurs. Tail Sliders are muscle sliders are ear sliders and so on. Scale patches are beauty marks and scars and so-forth.Â

Suddenly Au Ra get differential horns but Elezen don't get differential ears, followed by Mi'qote. Then that happens and Au Ra wonder why they don't have horn sliders and Hyur, Roe, and Taru wonder what they're going to get for all the new additions.

While you may think otherwise, Square Enix can't take that chance. They've got a backlog of bugs and concerns and imbalances and loads of complaints that there's not enough (insert piece of content here) to address, on top of any new content theyÂ wish to add.Â It would take time and resources to what would amount (to be fair) to an overhaul of the character creation and character rendering process. I assure you, it would not wind up being 'easier' than that given all the technical testing quality control, and coding (it's not just character wise, it's data storage and load both server side and client side)anything short of that wouldn't be worth the work load because of all the technical hurtles they'd have to cross.

It's easy to sit client side and speculate as to what little difficulty it would be to change something. It's an entirely different world to sit on the production side of what's pretty much considered a 'living game'.
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Again, as a personal perspective, I'd be all about more options. However I'm a hobbyist when it comes to following Gaming as an industry and am familiar with a lot of the tripping points and tropes of developers.

I do not see this happening, at the very least not anytime soon. The way it's structured implies to me that they created a rather rigid system off the bat and to expands the options will likely require a good bit of overall. I could be wrong, but my gut feeling on this tells me to settle in with what we have.

I'm not saying 'don't give feedback' as, again, I want this to happen too. Just please, please do not become hung up on it.

Mmn... in hindsight I think you are right in that I was downplaying the difficulty and resources it would require quite a bit. I apologise ^^a

(04-30-2015, 06:04 PM)Aysun Wrote: I said it on tumblr, and I'll say it here:

Sure, but if they decide to not link horns to face type then theyâ€™ll have to make Miqo'te markings not linked to face type as well. Wonâ€™t happen.

Look at the character creator as a whole and youâ€™ll see that each race has things that parallel the others in what you can change and what you canâ€™t. Theyâ€™d have to revamp the entire creator if they wanted to change this one thing.

People seem to forget we have the same problem with Miqo'te. No, it's not the ears that are linked to the face, but the markings we get. :/ There's no mixing there either.

You are very right about the miqo'te markings. That never even crossed my mind.... perhaps because I was priveleged enough to get my favourite ones, haha ;

(04-30-2015, 09:51 PM)X Wrote: And while I would love for more, this is one of the few games I can get very unique looking characters from a limited set of predefined features.

I always find that impressive about this game, haha. It's a shame in a sense however, since one can only imagine the much greater diversity that could come with something more elaborate

Au Ra Customization: Horns and Faces

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