remove hairstyle restrictions

each race/gender only has a handful of hairstyles they can choose from, with the announcement of them dropping PS3 support was wondering what everyones opinion of the hair restrictions is.

do you think square should remove the race/gender hairstyle restrictions and let anyone use any of the hairstyles?

i think they should i dont like having 15 or so styles to choose from when theres so many in the game why cant i just choose any hairstyle that i like instead of limited what we can choose (theres quite a few hairstyles i really love too but their not available to my race)

please post your opinions of this (would love to get yoshi's opinion of this but i doubt he browses the english board :()

I don't think de PS3 limitations have something to do with it.

I'm all in for this !
Please SE, we really need this, plus it's not against the lore to see person mimic other cultural hairstyles

To be fair I actually like the unique hairstyles per race. It's also not a lot to be honest, so I disagree with this TC. If you want a hairstyle which you cannot get, use fantasia and switch to that race. I like the exclusive hairstyles per race/gender.

I would like to see this, but I'm not sure about what the limitations are/if there are any technical reasons that some races have certain hairstyles and others don't. It would be neat if more of the hairstyles were shared between races, as there are a few hairstyles that Au Ra have that I would like to see on my Miqo'te.

No I think different races should look different and that includes many of their hairstyles, emotes and so on.

I want them to share most hairstyles between all races - can skip those which have horns in them for example.

In a past thread about this very same subject, one of the reps chimed in:

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

We're currently prioritizing the addition of new hairstyles that can be enjoyed by all races, but we will continue to look into opening up previously exclusive hairstyles to other races as well. If there are any specific hairstyles you would like to see added, please let us know so we can use them for future reference!

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I am always game for more ways to customize our characters. :)

I would love that.

I think the reason the have lock on hairstyles is to make races unique in a way. I mean imagine a Lala with Au Ra hairstyle (not so bad they'll appear taller xD).

I would really love that...then I can use this pony tail on a different race ^^

I like race-exclusive things.
For example I would like a tail accessory for Au ra or Miqo'te.

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

do you think square should remove the race/gender hairstyle restrictions and let anyone use any of the hairstyles?

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You make it sound as though there's a switch they can flip that will suddenly allow these hairstyles to be used by other races. It's not that simple - before a race can use a hairstyle they haven't had before, SE needs to redesign the hairstyle to fit that race. This takes design effort (more for some hairstyles than others), which takes developers off of other tasks, etc, etc.

Each hairstyle you want to be made all-races and all-genders, needs an appreciable amount of development effort to implement. That's why SE asks for specific requests, rather than just going ahead and doing them all.

Oh, and there's also the Mi'qote problem: any hairstyle that has short or no hair on the sides looks positively CREEPY on Mi'qote. As human beings observing humanlike character models, we subconsciously expect there to be ears on the sides of the head or something that looks like it could be covering up ears. When they're not there, the uncanny valley hits like a freight train. If the developers were to make all hairstyles all-races, they would likely leave these out - and that would simply be unfair, for Mi'qote to have so many less hair models than other races. And if SE gave them additional unique hairstyles to make up for it, then we're back to square one!

I would love them to remove all hairstyle restrictions, several Hyur and Miqo'te hairstyles are quite pretty, but I would like to use them more in Au ra (Even Au ra most of her hairstyles are pretty, to use in other races)
This would give us more possibilities of personalization :D

By the way, I'm the only one who believes that they should put more hair colors?
Something like this?
http://imgur.com/Hy3PCuA.png

So sick of everything being blamed on PS3 limitations when it isn't even the case. Blaming everything on PS3 limitations is up there with blaming Obama for everything.

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I want the Au Ra mod looking hair but I'm afraid it would make my Hyur head look humongous.

I'm not sure PS3 restrictions was ever the issue here.

I think it's nice to keep a few race restricted. Particularly the ones that would look odd on other races, such as any Roe styles with their unique hair line.

I'd love them to add more of the other races styles though, I've had my eye on a certain hyur style since launch.

Yes and no, I don't want any other races to have the 'Axel' inspired hair cut that male Au Ra have, but I also want the other hairstyles like cat girl dreads. But selfish I know, but hey xD

Yes please remove it, it doesnt make the races unique but the exact oppostie.
Since there isnt much to choose from, players from the same race use all similar hair.
It would be nice if there was no restriction at all, then every race would have more hair to choose from.

edit: There is also an elezen NPC from the "school" sidequest in Ishgard who uses a male Au Ra hairstyle, which isnt unlocked for players yet.

I want to see bald Miqo'te

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Originally Posted by Texa

I want to see bald Miqo'te

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Type Bald Miqo're into google. The first two images have what you want.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

I would really love that...then I can use this pony tail on a different race ^^

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Speaking of your haircut, would be nice if they fixed it while wearing a hat, it transforms it into the shorter version., it's awful.

Would seriously love to have race/clan/gender restrictions removed. I like the hairstyles that come with midlander hyur but sometimes would be nice if I could use some of my old aura hairstyles.