Shae Vizla Missing head

The explanation is simple: They don't wan't people to put armors on their companions that isn't 'Star Warsy and iconic'... I mean, really, it's not our story it's theirs. Oh, wait... that was Sony.

Actually, it's beyond me why we can't customize any of the new companions. As is their steadfast refusal to even speak on the matter.

If it's the whole skimpy armor excuse, then why can characters still wear it? Vanilla companions? Dancers in all the cantinas scattered everywhere? Various npc's?

Why make customizing companions a part of the game and then remove the option and refuse to explain the decision?

My assumption was that at some point they mean to sell customizations on the CM, and they figure we will still be buying all the regular armor sets for ourselves (that's what they believe alts are for, never occurred to them that we'd actually want to gear them, but that's another story), so they might as well separate the companions and have us pay extra to make them look different.

I am honestly a little surprised that we have not seen kotfe-companion customizations on CM yet, but this is the only reasoning that made sense to me, so for now it's what I choose to believe.

WTH!!!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!? The best companion change in this expansion is actually a bug.

*flips table and throws chair at screen

Do you WANT me to UNSUBSCRIBE? This kind of thinking is EXACTLY what will cause that to happen.

I can't begin to voice how much disapproval I have for this idea. As other people have said - if WE want one of your three customized appearances, then we can load them up but if not, then we put on the gear WE WANT to see on our companion. It is this way that we (THE PLAYERS) feel that the companion is OURS. As long as you feed CANNED FIXED appearance companions to us, the player base will be UNHAPPY and a majority (I'd like to think) will simply NOT use them as companions.

Couldn't agree more.
I wasn't even going to use Shae until I make a new alt, but now I'll have to dress her up on just about every character just to prove a point.

I claimed Shae using the clickable token item I got in the mail, and didn't receive the other two customizations for her. I'm guessing this is a bug too?

No please do not do this bioware!
Eric go tell your fellow team out there that it is a mistake to remove such a cool feature to customize the looks of armor our companions can have.
This is what I said on an other forum post too:

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I 100% agree! Bioware please keep this setting how Shae Vizla is now and give us the freedom to dress our companions in the way we want. Any idea why this is important? That freedom of choice is, important, and that is what makes it fun. And any idea why so many people crave for it too? It is because it is also not fun to see everywhere the same clone of Lana or perhaps now Shae Vizla around literrally all over the fleet 40x for example if people pull lana out and all look the same. Such things are important for players. Please try to implement this thing you made for Shae now for other companions, it would be so cool and nice of you! Please do not remove a good thing you did, it is otherwise a real shame, you gave us something what we all like. Greets! (BTW I love the new KOTET story so far! Really goodjob with that bioware if you read this now, I do it on Veteran Mode and it is so epic and fun, I am glad you listened to the critics for kotfe it worked for kotet! Please keep listing to us and do not revert changes what are well received by players Thank you and do not screw up things alright? haha)
Greets,
JE.


PS: I posted the same message on: http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...=1#post9132804
http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...=902436&page=2
Perhaps these 2 threads can be merged? ^^ Anyways bioware do please keep this addon it is so cool!
I will haunt you forever if you remove this whahaha.
Greets! ^^

I btw never use Lana because of this reason, same for Theron, that I can not customize them. I really would like to give Theron the same cool Bounty Hunter/ or Imperial Trooper outfit what I made for all my other companions, so it all looks more like 1 big Team you know, same accounts for Lana, it would be so cool to see in Cutscenes to see them all as 1 unified team.
And everytime I see Theron still wearing that same jacket what he wears for YEARS now, I get this feeling, ''go CHANGE your clothes!!!, you wear this since you where 19 years old???''. It is funny a bit that someone gets so attached to 1 specific look I guess lol, but bioware you can make with the way you made Shae Vizla give people the look what you guys want the companions to look like, and at the same time give us a free choice if we want to change it. It is a win win situation. I can not think of 1 reason what would damage you or the players in the process with keeping things like they are now. So implement this for all companions who are unable to get dressed differently. Please do it! And be smart! I say you we all would like this feauture. I will give you an kiss Eric if you guys do not change this and make it happen haha. (Good luck anyways with all the other projects and things you work on)
Greets and best whishes,
JE.

No, you get them when you do her Alliance Alert (sometime after KotHE Chapter 14)...you can do this mission even if you use the token, so basically you have to do KotFE to get the extra customizations.

I don't get outraged by much. I've been a subscriber for years with little to complain about.

But if you remove the ability to customize Shae, I will be outraged. It's a slap in the face, in clear defiance of obvious, widespread user feedback.

We want to be able to customize our companions. You should want us to also, since it gives us another body to put Cartel Market outfits on.

The fact that I could customize Shae was a delighter. I promptly dressed her up in the same armor that my wife's red-headed BH character wears. I showed my wife, and she was thrilled too.

If you "fix" this, then you really are lost.