Your opinion of the Character creator.

It's a flat out disaster, not so much a character creator as preset editor. Inquisition's CC wasn't great, had a horrible selection of hairstyles, but is still a masterpiece compared to this.

The problem with the CC isn't that you ant make good-looking characters. It's that you can't make them look how YOU want them to look.

For me, I have this weird thing where I like to make "snow white" type characters. I did it in DAO, DA2, DAI, etc. Super fair skin, black hair, blue or brown eyes, and red lips.

Exhibit A:
imgur.com/a/OCCLf

But I can't do this with the MEA CC. Mostly because I just cant make a character with fair enough skin. Ain't the end of the world but kinda annoying.

I was expecting a new and improved version of the DA:I CC, or at the very least, something on par with it. 

What we got is incredibly disappointing.  It's basically a gutted, highly-restrictive version of the DA:I CC.  A highly frustrating "Preset Tweaker"... not at all what I would consider a "Character Creator". 

They need to fire whoever was evolved with the CC and start over from scratch so it's not a piece of shit.

hopefully it will be better in the next game

With Bioware specifically, I haven't had this problem until now. I'm aware CCs have limitations, I just have never encountered this particular limitation in a Bioware game until now. *shrug*

I spent a few minutes trying to think of one in my 25 or so years of video gaming and I can't think of a single CC from any game where you can't make a single white character.  Even putting aside the limited number of adjustment sliders one has in MEA, the inability to change eye/brow/nose/cheek/chin shapes, the small selection of hair types, and the overall aesthetic quality of the presets, we don't have even a single skin tone for anyone paler than a rather swarthy Spaniard? 

In the case of MEA it is far less a case of "just the way of CC's" and feels a lot more like BW telling us "these are the kind of characters you should be playing".  Frankly I'd even rather have ME1's CC just dropped down into the middle of MEA.  Bad textures with low poly meshes and all.  At the very least give me some pale, fair, and rosy colored skin tones.  Some varying choices for complexion would be great as well.

Haha Andromeda's tight CC limitations are intentional.

Guys please, let's be nice... I can't read any critical subject without finding some with hunt here or there. Just like for the animations.
But really, a game's fault are rarely one man's fault. Just like for the animations, there is this post on the forum where an animator is ranting because of what people are saying about his co-workers and at the same time shows what a great work animators do when they are given the possibility.

Clearly the issue is a problem of resources and timetable management, and even then, we can't know exactly what problems the management had to face during the course of development. To close the question, where I do 100% blame BW/EA, is their  pre-release review blocus strategy. The only explanation I have is that they are tweaking their PR to give the feeling they "play by the rules" (one can be informed pre-release through youtube or reddit from early access players, who probably are fanboys as they have to pay early access), while doing their best to ensure most people who don't try to actively inform themselves won't know anything (end of review blocus only one day before release, while most developers who play nice end the blocus 1 week before release).

I am not excusing anything about the state of the game, just reminding that targeting someone in particular is unfair toward this person, and is anyway not the way to move on. Yep, the CC is terrible as it is (I think BW has already improvement of CC and hairs in the 2 months roadmap), I even think that the CC is the worst made by BW (since ME1) as you can just ajust a bit around the presets (which are mostly ugly). As for the hairs, they look like LEGO characters. Even without speaking of rebuilding from scratch, BW will have to do a major work to improve the CC to an acceptable level.

I swear sometimes it feels like Bioware did this shite CC on purpose to create controversy.

When I think about how many times I have posted random shit on the forums with little thought, compared to the agonizingly meticulous and reworded posts that I have to make regarding the CC...all to make sure I don't sound racist. Replacing "white" with "Caucasian" or "pale" or "eastern European". Making sure my posts have just enough of the apologetic tone to not be attacked, etc.

Since I am sick to death of it, I am just going to say it and be done.

- The asian, indian, and black presets are relatively attractive.

- The white preset is a fucking monstrosity (and her skin is pink, rather than white).

- The other preset that you can make fairly pale has disgusting squid lips that look like an old lady who smoked for years.

- You cannot make a pretty white woman in the CC. Please don't show me your pics. I have seen them, and they look like ass.

- On top of this, the default white woman looks like a derp. She is basically meme fodder.

So that is why it sucks for me. I want to play an attractive white woman and I can't. I played through as an attractive Asian girl and am now playing through as an attractive Indian girl with freckles. But I can never play through as an attractive white woman. And it sucks for me, cause that it what I would like to do.

I actually get what you are saying because I felt that way about the Inquisition cc, that no matter what I was trying to input, to play any attractive female, I had to play a white girl. So, I hope they add the white preset to match the same type of face everyone posts in the numerous threads they make to show how superior the Inquisition cc is. The oval-faced girl, with regular features, and pretty.

For males, the problems run deeper, as the small tweaks to the face really Age the face in the game. They will need to add the complexion slider if possible to airbrush the boys.