Trial Head Limitations.

[Rufus]

Door and I tried out a new game today, and after the long install we were psyched to start it off. There was an excitement in seeing how our characters could look, how we could represent ourselves in this new game, but when the selection screen opened up we were met with extreme disappointment. There was a limit of around 4 different hairstyles with no color choice, per the very small amount of races that they had. I couldn't look like anything that I've ever envisioned my character to look like, and at this point I lost my motivation to play the game.

When asked, only 15 out of 250 players on Graal felt that their characters appearance wasn't important to them at all. That alone should show you how character appearance is of the utmost importance and shouldn't be limited so harshly. If you can't even make a compromise in how you want to look when you're first starting out, you're not going to feel inclined to upgrade because of it, you're just going to end up feeling uncomfortable about playing the game. With this in mind, the trial head limitations do more damage than good.

Trials are limited to 10 heads: only 2 of them are passable as female, 1 of them doesn't even exist, and you don't really get a very diverse range. One of Graal's greatest features is the ability to customize your character, the ability to change your look and represent yourself uniquely. I don't feel like this limitation should exist at all, it could be placed on limiting players to only wearing globally uploaded heads. However if you're going to keep it, change the head limit from 1-10 to 1-500; it will give both male and female players the opportunity to feel comfortable and welcomed to the game. They will feel more encouraged to try the game out, and even more inclined to pay to play it.