SE please, stop hiding our cute fluffy ears

Hello, so I am very sad to see how adorable and pretty head gear looks simply awful on miqo'tes.

Example, the new Sky Pirate's Beret of Aiming, simply adorable until you add ears to it. I don't understand why SE keeps covering Miqo'tes ears on every hat they release, I mean, wasn't the old AF Bard hat amazing? yes it was! were the ears hidden, no they weren't.

I will show what I mean:
http://i.imgur.com/KiX5mKE.png
1st picture is the old Bard AF hat, look at those fluffy ears poking out! adorable~

2nd is the hat from Crystal Tower, not too bad since the ears are very low profile, so they don't stick out too far making the hat look strange.

3rd image, is the new beret, it is not bad enough how the beret shape gets completely messed up when you add leather in shape of ears to it, but also, the color, why that color, I haven't crafted it or tried to dye it, because... I won't glamour it, also if it is like the top, the blue stitches will remain blue, so, colored triangles in shape of ears with blue dots in them... why!?

Please SE, just stop covering them, we want to see the ears, that is why we choose Miqo'te as our race.

Thank you for reading, please reply if you agree, or if you think I am just crazy picky well, go ahead and reply too! I like to glamour.

Edit: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3426182 Some hats photo edited to show ears instead of the ears covers.

As an Elezen I have no particular emotional stake in this but I completely agree; the ear pouches on that new beret look weird with that jumble of colours. Fuzzy bare ears are much cuter than ear pouches. Do they always hide your earrings too?

If the ears are covered by the hat, yes it will also hide the earrings.

I never really understood the ear pouches on anything in this game. I mean, if you were designing something to accommodate big long ears...wouldn't you just make holes?

I don't mind ear pouches in general because it's nice to have them on some items, but fortunately for me most pieces don't cover my ears so there's plenty of choice. If all of the Miqo'te hats are coming with pouches now then that's not very fun. It's also preventing you from seeing all of the event/preorder glamour earrings they keep handing out, which is rotten for those who enjoy those items. So I support this suggestion.

Not only do the ear holes look better, but how the heck are Miqo'te supposed to be aware of anything with cloth/leather/whatever blocking their ability to hear?

It's a well know fact that it takes Us Miqo's 45 minutes to an hour to put our hats on. We gotta angle our ears juuuuuuust right so that our ears go into the...socks... ear holes are better because that's easier to stick your ears through. We wear socks on our feet, not our ears SE!

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Originally Posted by Lucke

We wear socks on our feet, not our ears SE!

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On the bright side: They *do* keep the ears warm!

Yeah please, I want to show off my beautiful ears, not hide them in some ugly pouch. =(

I agree, the ear holes look way better.

Free our fluffy ears ! :3

I for one am glad to have a nice hat that isn't ruined by odd ear pouches or ear holes at all! (White Beret)

I do lend my sympathy to the 3rd hat, ugly stitches are a little bit of a plague around here it seems. (Original Moogle plush design, creepy minion button eyes etc)

Ear socks are one reason why 99% of the time my gearsets have hats hidden.

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Originally Posted by Zojha

On the bright side: They *do* keep the ears warm!

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:) true, maybe leave them hidden for winter style hats

Make it optional (via toggle) or remove it.

Vote no on ear pockets!

I always thought it was a waste to bother making different models. Theyre ears, they bend and can be hidden inside a regularly shaped helmet, specially the Miqote. Theyd be better protected as well. Looks good/ok with some hats like the BRD one but other than that its bad. I guess it would look better if they just left holes instead of trying to cover them up with ear patches almost all the time. Even hoods get them ... hoods!

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Originally Posted by Kayote

Theyre ears, they bend and can be hidden inside a regularly shaped helmet, specially the Miqote. T

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Nyuuu, don't bend and squish our sensitive ears like that T_T

I like my ears too.. sucks we can hardly see them, Make it happen SE give us our ears back!!

I prefer ear sockets for my lala.

Hats are overrated anyways. #tf2

Always glamour something that doesn't hide my fluffy ears.

Ear socks look worse on elezen, they're huge, regardless of actual ear size or shape and some of those ear socks look to be in the wrong spot.

I photo edited some hats to show how they would look if there were ears instead of the pouches.

http://i.imgur.com/KZKqZJc.png

While not all of them work out, I think some do look better, for example the witch hat, it would be illogical having the ears come out through the purple/blue band on the hat, so why not just hide the ears inside? the hat is pretty gigantic (for reals, it is big!) enough to hide ears in it. the nightcap could also hide the ears in it, again, it is a pretty big hat, some other hats do hide ears, like most of then 3.0 crafter gear.

I also agree that helms, probably most metal made helm could keep their ear (ouch) just because we are speaking of a solid metal piece that is meant to protect the ears, also, most metal helms ears look pretty good and do not mess up the hat shape at all.

But deciding which hat should have ear sockets, which keeps their "pouch" and which can hide ears, is something the team needs to decide themselves, I do understand the extra work it would be, but I also that it would simplify some hats models a lot because they won't have to think of a matching/logical pouch shape/size/color for every hat they make.

Anyway! thank you for reading, I am happy to see that many other miqo'te, elezens and probably even some lalafels, agree that not every hat needs to have their ears hidden in cloth/leather/metal.
Take care!

i play a male miqote and have had an issue with hats since the start. whilst the viera were sad they couldn't even wear hats i was out there looking at my caboi with almost handlebar triangle for ears on some hats
its why i rarely wear hats.

my personal choice would be to have ears that stick through the hats as opposed to the handbar style covered triangles we sometimes get

I sometimes think they look at the exarch for hoods and go yes this is all miqote.
but he was HIDING his race deliberately so it wouldnt make sense for all hoods to hide the miqote ears.

in fact showing the ears in all hoods barring the future cash shop exarch outfit (prayage) would mean a lot lore wise.