I still don't understand why they went through the effort to make an in-game model of the stubble face hyur male Warrior of Light who is a generic representation of the player base and not give players the ability to use that face. Its not like the WoL seen in the CGI trailers have had a 1-to-1 recreation in game, in fact the only thing shared between the Stormblood trailers and in-game model was hairstyles.
While I "get" (but disagree with) why NPC models have unique characteristics that the player base doesn't have access to (Estinien and Hilda's unique hairstyles, Misija's unique skin color for Roegadyns) in order to make them distinct, having all the material of this expansion showing the "Your Character Here" representation not actually be something your character can look like is odd. I would have understood if they decided to give Ardbert the new stubble face to make him more distinct like other NPCs, but that didn't happen.
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While I "get" (but disagree with) why NPC models have unique characteristics that the player base doesn't have access to (Estinien and Hilda's unique hairstyles, Misija's unique skin color for Roegadyns) in order to make them distinct, having all the material of this expansion showing the "Your Character Here" representation not actually be something your character can look like is odd. I would have understood if they decided to give Ardbert the new stubble face to make him more distinct like other NPCs, but that didn't happen.
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