I just finished modifying my avatar a bit. It’s actually really cool how you can take a picture of your avatar for your icon. You can zoom in and out, pan, rotate your avatar, you can even turn their torso with the right joystick. After framing, you can press left trigger and it’ll go through an animation cycle of some type, and you can snap a shot of your avatar doing something funny. I have mine making some angry growling face. And you can change the BG color once you’ve snapped a shot to really spice it up. It’s pretty fun! I just wish you could save all of them, it seems you’re limited to one avatar making at a time which is dumb when they’re SO tiny filesizewise. And I don’t know what’ll happen once I make another one, if it’ll save or not…
There’s also no excuse for the sucky animation cycles, the sucky piece quality, the lack of big free wardrobe, the lack of background customization ease (I know there’s a way to change a picture of it for free but I can’t find it yet)... all of this they have experience with because of Windows, it’s not a matter of technology or filesize, they just choose to keep it all crappy and locked in. To profit later, in the case of clothes and backgrounds, etc. Here’s looking forward to nickle and diming you… sigh.
Yes, I know it’s a good business model, and yes you don’t have to buy these things. But I mean, they’re doing the SAME thing as EA did with Spore and locking out content that SHOULD be in for free, just to sell it to you later. Case in point: long hair. I wanted very long hair. There is no very long hair. There isn’t even medium long hair. There are tons of fancy hair but no long hair. But I will put money on this: once a new Tomb Raider game comes out, if it comes with accessories, it could possibly come with her hairstyle. Which is long hair braids. Sigh.