![]() It’s one of the main reasons I never got into Black Desert, and was a contributing factor to me putting FFXIV on the back burner. Being forced into overly sexualized customizations bothers me too. Gender locking is a customization restriction that’s an automatic pass for me. Character look and feel is one of the only things that really sets games apart. Every game has combat, some trading, some crafting – all miniscule variations on the same formula. I’m sure to get some flack over this, but customization options are one of the only things that really sets games apart from each other. Really in the grand scheme, Blizzard being tone deaf about yet another thing should be about as sensational as “water is water,” but here we are. I’ve never dumped a game because of the character customization options, but I do celebrate the ones that do it better.Īndy McAdams: It boggles my mind that one of the most anticipated and celebrated aspects of Shadowlands is getting the “meh, whatever, we don’t feel like adding any new customization options, no matter how much you want them, you can’t tell me what to do, you aren’t my real dad,” sentiment from Blizzard. Still, my PvE server characters sometimes will have a gut for RP purposes. I, uh, don’t really need “package” sliders, as I tend to look at that kind of like hair: keep it short so there’s less of me to spot when I’m hiding in bushes. I do prefer to have more options, especially in body shapes and heights for when my face gets covered, but that’s it. I’m not one of those people who want to play gender locked characters or some prebuilt MOBA-esque character that is “mine” somehow. Andrew Ross dengarsw): I think for MMOs, the only “must-have” I have is basic customization: name, gender, skin color, hair color. Do you have any MMO character customization dealbreakers and must-haves – options that you absolutely require to play an MMO? Are there any lines in the sand with respect to customization that you’ve drawn when it comes to your MMO play? And have you ever dumped a character or MMO because you couldn’t look the way you wanted with the tools on offer? But other people will happily put on hobo armor, and for them, their appearance means nothing.įor this week’s Massively Overthinking, I want to mull that over. I certainly have some lines in the sand when it comes to MMO character customization, and I could see myself walking away if the developers of one of the biggest games ever did something like this. ![]() “We tried to be really thoughtful about type of thing, and these types of features tend to be fairly big projects.”Ĭlearly, Blizzard thinks that slighting these players won’t impact its bottom line, but I have to wonder about it myself. “There are a few we didn’t get as many customizations options in for, and those are the kind of things that we’ll be looking forward to in the future,” Blizzard’s Ely Cannon said during the Q&A. It was particularly galling for players of allied races and some of the “beast” races (like Worgen and Pandaren), since they assumed they’d be getting customization akin to what the other races have gotten, especially since some of the bits and pieces are already in the game files. Back in February, when BlizzConline was at its height, part of the World of Warcraft community lost its mind over the revelation that Blizzard won’t be adding new customization options between now and… whatever the next expansion turns out to be a year and a half from now.
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