I have many conflicting ideas about the barber shop. I'm not enthused about a rotating name change nor do I think players would be either simply because of the exclusivity of a name. A racial change Is also problematic but I do understand "buyer's remorse" and these things might be best as a real commitment via the crown store.

As far as the barber shop goes, I'm mostly in favor of a fairly inexpensive shop where I could walk in and see jewelry and pictures or books with hair styles and adornments so I could adjust my cosmetic appearance i.e. hair colour, make-up, adornment which would include body tattoos. I think this should have a wider variation so that, for instance, I can have eye make-up and a discrete tattoo or separate pieces of jewelry or other adornment. Then, for a higher fee I could have cosmetic surgery to adjust both body and face i.e bust reduction, face lift, you get the idea. A gender change could fit here as well. This I would prefer to be in game gold and not regarded as a gold sink. Before level 50 many players don't have that much extra gold. I know I spend most of mine on tempers for crafting. A single full crafted set even at blue eats a lot of armor tempers. These kind of changes don't affect game play just player happiness and so should not be really expensive.

The other thing I think is really important because it would eliminate a lot of unhappiness is a better character creator preview. If we could see our characters in various real game world light in real game armor (because I have never seen any of the armor from the creation screen in game on anyone) it would make character creation better. I had not considered varying angles but if some need that then it should be available. Also allow more time idle because it is very frustrating to have made a character you really like only to lose them because you didn't put in a name fast enough. I can't name my characters until I see what they look like.

Mettaricana wrote: »

Acrolas wrote: »

Name change scroll should be for crowns only to tone down possible abuse.

Barber shop should just have one interface - the original character appearance edits, plus additional for-gold sliders.
You'd be surprised how many people would be confused if there are two barber shop interfaces.

No original character editor is terrible because players are viewed ingame from a top down view and creator a bottom up view making a large portion of the time a player made not looking the way you intended ingame also the creator lighting is terrible. It needs a slide up option on camera not jist a zoom in. Can't count the amount of time I made a hot sexy elf in creator then log in to a potato once in game with a huge chin or forhead and gappy eyes that all look different when viewed from a slightly different angle.

It's a great TES tradition though - start in a poorly lit area and get your character looking just right, then when you come out into the sunlight wonder what happened.

EDIT: I think the biggest character creation issue in ESO for me was that the first NPC I met was half-giant Lyris, leaving me thinking "oh no, I have inadvertently made my character really tiny, she only comes up to Lyris's elbow..."

NikaTheCat wrote: »

Epona222 wrote: »

Mettaricana wrote: »

Acrolas wrote: »

Name change scroll should be for crowns only to tone down possible abuse.

Barber shop should just have one interface - the original character appearance edits, plus additional for-gold sliders.
You'd be surprised how many people would be confused if there are two barber shop interfaces.

No original character editor is terrible because players are viewed ingame from a top down view and creator a bottom up view making a large portion of the time a player made not looking the way you intended ingame also the creator lighting is terrible. It needs a slide up option on camera not jist a zoom in. Can't count the amount of time I made a hot sexy elf in creator then log in to a potato once in game with a huge chin or forhead and gappy eyes that all look different when viewed from a slightly different angle.

It's a great TES tradition though - start in a poorly lit area and get your character looking just right, then when you come out into the sunlight wonder what happened.

EDIT: I think the biggest character creation issue in ESO for me was that the first NPC I met was half-giant Lyris, leaving me thinking "oh no, I have inadvertently made my character really tiny, she only comes up to Lyris's elbow..."

Just wanted to add to this.. Recently made some new characters and encountered a similar problem. For example, Altmer are naturally very tall, on the contrary Bosmer are rather short. The thing is that you can't really see that in the character creation window, because you have nothing to compare your character to. So, I found myself blindly adjusting the height of my characters just based on what I knew about their race (and players new to this game wouldn't have that kind of an advantage, if you can call it that).

Yep there is absolutely no sense of scale in character creation at all.

I dont understand why they dont do this to be honest... it would probably take less time than making a barber shop .

Dragon Age gives you a dlc FOR FREE to change your characters appearance.
FF14 allows you to save your character`s look and later reload it on a new character, which is awesome for when you make a character that you love how it looks but want to make it in a different faction later etc.

What do we get? NOTHING. And when we get it? It will cost a poopton amount of crowns.

I agree that we should have the option to change our character appearance and our character name, but I also get that companies want to make money.

I would not mind to pay a reasonable amount of crowns in order to be able to do so. I think my character would look more cool with war paint and I think we should have the option to change this.

But as you guys have been saying I don't think it would be fair to have this only for ESO+, even though I am a member I think every single player should be able to change its character look!

Edit: I want to add that in WOW barber shops are free as well, and you get more styles than when you are creating a character.

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, but something I'd be interested in and could make everyone happy and money for ZOS. Charge in game gold (reasonable amount) for appearance change, then in the crown store they could add lore friendly style packs to purchase. For example, new hairstyles, more beards (please), options for female (and male) toons like more flowers, or other adornments not included with stock creation, more color options etc. I know this is a rough overview but these "style packs" I think could add some unique and personal twists to character customization. This could also open up the floor for potential addition of other races that exist in the lore, expanding on immersion, RP and gameplay.