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(04-28-2015, 04:14 PM)Naunet Wrote:(04-28-2015, 03:21 PM)SessionZero Wrote: One thing that I think it's important to remember, is that this is not a game designed with just RPers in mind.
I disagree with the notion that wanting SE to provide some variety in character models is asking them to design for RPers.
That's not what I was saying. What I was saying is that it's not designed just for RPers. I went on in that post to mention that they must design for a wide variety of play styles, which means budgeting and time and resource and staffing allocation to a variety of different content. They had to build an entirely new city-state, new instances, new open-world areas, new enemies, new ability animations, etc, etc. I'm not an animator or an expert but I would think that building new models from the ground up is expensive and time-consuming and SE was just trying to maintain that balance that I also mentioned later on.
There's a clear preference for model types among the entirety of FFXIV's playerbase. Do I like the fact that pretty much no one plays FemRoes or FemHighlanders? No, because I think they're great. I'm just saying I understand SE's perspective.