Character Creation: Assessment and Critique

[Michikyou]

No offense, Naunet, but your opinion is neither better nor more accurate than Meena's.  You're both offering concretes without a shred of cited evidence.  So honestly, either one of you could be completely correct, completely incorrect, or partially correct.  At this point, it's really just a matter of opinion.

 

Not a single one of us has access to peer-reviewed studies or scientific polls showing that our opinions are the accurate ones.

I believe blizzard did a survey on what people were most interested in a year or so ago. I'll go dig it up when I get home.

[Naunet]

No offense, Naunet, but your opinion is neither better nor more accurate than Meena's.  You're both offering concretes without a shred of cited evidence.  So honestly, either one of you could be completely correct, completely incorrect, or partially correct.  At this point, it's really just a matter of opinion.

 

Not a single one of us has access to peer-reviewed studies or scientific polls showing that our opinions are the accurate ones.

 

This isn't exactly a peer-reviewed research journal publishing house. >_> But I'm not just stating my opinion.

 

I'm basing my assertions of other people valuing character customization on the very large amount of official forum threads I've seen in the betas and in releases of over half a dozen MMOs. Anecdotal? Yes. But there's some value in that it proves these demands exist. The very real implementation of strong levels of customization in a variety of MMOs would suggest that the developers of those games saw a more than sufficient demand.

[Warren Castille]

No one can possibly prove anything. Everything is wrong.

[Gegenji]

No one can possibly prove anything. Everything is wrong.

 

You can't prove that!

[Warren Castille]

No one can possibly prove anything. Everything is wrong.

 

You can't prove that!

 

Neither can you.

[LiadansWhisper]

No one can possibly prove anything. Everything is wrong.

 

That wasn't really my point.  It's frustrating to watch someone go, "No, you're wrong because I'm right."  And that's honestly how some of this discussion appears to me.

[Naunet]

No one can possibly prove anything. Everything is wrong.

 

That wasn't really my point.  It's frustrating to watch someone go, "No, you're wrong because I'm right."  And that's honestly how some of this discussion appears to me.

 

The post of mine you responded to was literally me saying "You're right, but so am I." >_>

[Caspar]

I got a good laugh out of the meaningless bust slider when making Virara, but seriously, they should replace it with a Pudge slider ranting from "Lowfat Popoto" to "Fatty Fat Fatty."

[Jana]

I miss Warren's ass

 

WERE WE ROBBED OF ASS WITH THE CHANGE TO 2.0?!

 

 

While I am totally used to character creation with a lot of freedom (PSO2, Dragon's Dogma, even Tera in some ways (like actual face sliders that made a huge difference)), I don't find FFXIV's options to be terribly lacking. Would I like more options to use a different-looking face, or edit a jawline? Sure, but I'm not about to quit the game over it.

 

Besides, I've never been one unable to work with what I'm given.[/humblebrag]

[Warren Castille]

It boils down to the largest (not the loudest) opinion being the one SE's interested in. Could the character creator be more detailed? Absolutely! Implementing that in 2.0 would have been just one more challenge on top of the rest of the overhaul - Legacy options needed to be retained or rebuilt, remember. I imagine SE was trying very hard to reuse what assets they could.

 

The armor in the game is already low-res. It's sometimes jarring to see this beautiful world and then my splotchy shield, or zooming in for close-ups and noticing how artifacted the armor can be. Having to stretch those already-hurting designs over someone playing with a body dimension slider would draw more attention to that, and flaws in design are usually the sort of thing one can't unsee once noticed.

 

XIV was never a game that proclaimed you could make anybody. There's nothing wrong with wishing for more, but the reality of it is that this isn't that sort of game. For now, maybe.

[D'aito Kuji]

 

 

...XIV was never a game that proclaimed you could make anybody. There's nothing wrong with wishing for more, but the reality of it is that this isn't that sort of game. For now, maybe.

 

This is mostly how I feel.  I was slightly disappointed with the facial features as it doesn't seem possible for a Miqo'te not to be cute.  But I look at my cats faces at home, and cats on the internet, and cats all around, they are almost always cute.  So I just accepted that all Miqo'te tend to be cute with only minor differences between their structure.

 

But I am always, always, always, gonna cheerlead for more options, customizations, and alternative armor and gear.

[Aduu Avagnar]

It boils down to the largest (not the loudest) opinion being the one SE's interested in. Could the character creator be more detailed? Absolutely! Implementing that in 2.0 would have been just one more challenge on top of the rest of the overhaul - Legacy options needed to be retained or rebuilt, remember. I imagine SE was trying very hard to reuse what assets they could.

Also remember that a lot of the 2.1 content was content they didnt have time to implement before 2.0 launched. Crystal tower for instance.