I think it largely comes down to needing adjustments and improvements to be uniform across all races and genders. People pitched a fit when the Setzer coat was male only initially. People complained when hair would get added but only for certain races. People complain that not everyone has a muscle slider. There's no butt slider. There's no junk slider. If there were, there'd be the inevitable argument that my miqo can't have an ass like a roe can or that how come lalafell junk can't be the same as highlander junk because <references to earth biology that has no margin on anything>.
If you update the popular races, you neglect the few playing the unpopular which would further drive a wedge between them. If you update the unpopular ones first, you're basically wasting resources. Do them all at once and you're taking away from content development.
The game wasn't designed with super-in-depth character rendering. Maybe once we drop PS3 from the supported hardware we can handle processing that many unique characters, but as is? Go play something else if you need to create a perfect avatar, because XIV is not and has not ever pretended to offer that.
Tangent: People want to play cool things, that's why even single player games like Soul Calibur and <whatever> have in-depth options. Wrestling games have tons of pieces to make nearly anyone from anything. It's done to show off your creations, I think, or to complete a roster, or to just go wild for your own amusement. Character creation in those games becomes its own minigame. XIV's focus isn't on that, it's on what you do with that character.
If you update the popular races, you neglect the few playing the unpopular which would further drive a wedge between them. If you update the unpopular ones first, you're basically wasting resources. Do them all at once and you're taking away from content development.
The game wasn't designed with super-in-depth character rendering. Maybe once we drop PS3 from the supported hardware we can handle processing that many unique characters, but as is? Go play something else if you need to create a perfect avatar, because XIV is not and has not ever pretended to offer that.
Tangent: People want to play cool things, that's why even single player games like Soul Calibur and <whatever> have in-depth options. Wrestling games have tons of pieces to make nearly anyone from anything. It's done to show off your creations, I think, or to complete a roster, or to just go wild for your own amusement. Character creation in those games becomes its own minigame. XIV's focus isn't on that, it's on what you do with that character.
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