I would call this like a feedback, not load of shitty backlash.
Honestly...in your opinion, is this something that Ciri would wear?
Feedback is not given like this. You just leave your ideas and move on... that is feedback, you don't insult whatever they made in order to force your choice on them. Right now I see people using words like awful, horrible, stupid, nonsense and so on just because it doesn't match whatever "logical" design is going on in their heads.
You misunderstood me.
My point was not about the consent from the author, but was about the fact that...if you are basing your work on something made by others, the original author is like a sort of bible, a sort of handbook on how design pre-existent characters. The set of descriptions and phrases that the character says in the original work is what define that character. You can gave the Dandelion attitude to Geralt. Is your right in the name of the artistic freedom, but then...that character of Geralt would have only the name.
So...Ciri liked to wear in a peculiar way, when she was Falka, mostly with rich dresses...but an armor...well, I don't know.
I understand your point though this is just your perspective. For me it's like you get inspiration from a famous book or novel and base your work of art on it, then you put like 10 years of your life into making it a standalone product after that you are entitled to some freedom to do things your way within the lore off course.
Right now people are blowing things out of proportion in the name of lore for example "Oh how she got this shinny armor ?", "She cannot wear a low neckline !", "How it will protect her belly ?" sheesh man...
If we confine them like this then I fear that maybe next time they'll never base their work on something popular like Witcher books, after all they are artists and eventually they'll get fad up by all the bounds we'll put on them so they'll just give us a generic open world RPG like Skyrim with unnamed hero and lackluster characters so they can finally do anything they like, I think this is what you want in order to give them some artistic freedom.
If this is a Zerrikanian armor as said by Marcin then it has a vision behind it and I like it.
Oh and Geralt also wore this during Witcher 2 and you can play your entire game with this, very lore friendly right ?
People need to understand this is a game...