Don't chop miqo'te ears off with hats

As the title said

I dislike being given hats/ hoods that now remove miqo'te ears. Please stop making headpieces that cover miqo'te heads and remove their ears entirely. Make headpieces with ear slots so the ears poke through, instead of clip through or vanish. Some early headpieces have cut outs for ears, can we please go back to that?

Also, design hats for Viera. I want my Viera RDM to wear the red mage hat

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If Viera can't have head gear then Miqo'te can't have ears.

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

As the title said

I dislike being given hats/ hoods that now remove miqo'te ears. Please stop making headpieces that cover miqo'te heads and remove their ears entirely. Make headpieces with ear slots so the ears poke through, instead of clip through or vanish. Some early headpieces have cut outs for ears, can we please go back to that?

Also, design hats for Viera. I want my Viera RDM to wear the red mage hat

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I buy hat just to take off the ears. I am a former Hyur and am use to not having annoying ears to look at. I do love the eyes and overall body skeleton.

I rather the ears get hidden than them cutting extra holes in the hats... Or have ear pockets.

IMO it's hit and miss with me in regards to the holes or pockets in headgear for Miqo ears. Some items it looks fine. Others not so much. However given that cat ears aren't made of bone they aren't really necessary from a functional standpoint. It would be like cutting holes in the sides of headgear that cover the full head for the races with humanly placed ears.

Don't tempt me.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/b9258c2e...9b6d0a056.gifv

Thank god people who actually just want to play hyur don't speak for all Miqo'te.

I absolutely want them to bring back the ear holes and ear pockets, if I wouldn't want to see my ears I'd play a different race.

Do the ear pockets make no sense? Absolutely, but neither do the frog suit, the kpop outfit and all the other goofy "current year fashion" glamours in this fantasy game, realism went out the window years ago. So I'll gladly suspend my disbelief as to whether or not these helmets are in any way practical if it means my cat race keeps their cat ears.

PLEASE. It drives me nuts. Like, do I think the ear pockets are a little silly? Absolutely. I prefer the cutouts, for the most part. But things like caps, in particular, that totally crop the ears... It looks so weird to me.

And I'm playing a miqo for a reason. While more flexibility with customization is always a good thing imo, I don't think erasing a race's physical differences in that way is the right direction to walk that philosophy in. Not even letting them clip through just feels beyond lazy lol.

Also... not what this thread is about, but I miss the tail cutouts too. u_u

If I didn't want to see my ears, I wouldn't have them. Stop removing our body parts!

Ear and tail holes were a very amazing thing :3

Blame the designers for making gear with only Hyurs in mind, and not making different versions for other races. Looking back at gear they've progressively been getting lazier with it, as some Heavensward gear, helmets the ear pockets look like they are just a pair of spikes glued on top rather than actually being designed for them...

Late HW and SB, things started just removing the ears.

ShB onwards they're barely even trying.


Ultimately, I rather they just hide the ears rather than half-assedly try to make the gear work, because clearly they're not gonna make the extra effort to actually make multiple versions of the gear.

PLEASE.

I don't care if the ears just clip through the hats, please don't cut off my ears... my cute lil' ears...

Back in the day they used to design head gear with ear pockets for Miqo'te all the time. Always thought of it as a nice little detail, and I wish they would pick it up again.

I hide any hat that has ear pockets

Rather ears get cut off then clip.

People might not hate the ear pockets so much if they were actually designed to fit the ears, instead of sticking two random small spikes anywhere the artist feels like it.

Yes! Give us ear holes or pockets!

This was honestly pretty cool back in the day when Square Enix put some effort into details like these. Now it just feels annoying.

First, Au Ra horns clip through everything.
Then, Viera don't have headgear because they're scared of working with their ears.
Hrothgar needed to have their ears chopped off just for hairstyles.
And Miqo'te have their ears getting chopped out of headgear when there's a history of them accomodating Miqo'te ears before!

Unlike all the others, Miqo'te are getting a step backwards.

I have a question. After the backlash they got with Hrothgar, why are they continuing chopping off ears? How are they still thinking stuff like this is okay and acceptable to ship off?

Square. We said it before. Racial differences are what make your game characters interesting. If I wanted to play a humanoid character, I wouldn't have changed out of my Roegadyn.

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

Back in the day they used to design head gear with ear pockets for Miqo'te all the time. Always thought of it as a nice little detail, and I wish they would pick it up again.

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The elves and potatos usually had "ear pockets" too on things like full helmets since they stick out the sides a bit.

Feels like gear is only really fitted to Midlanders and Lalafells, then everyone else gets to make do with whatever clipping or cutting happens.

I never noticed a hat that dont have pockets for miqote.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Feels like gear is only really fitted to Midlanders and Lalafells, then everyone else gets to make do with whatever clipping or cutting happens.

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Meh the excuse is probably something like "We don't have ears like that IRL" so... let's get the ball rolling on some gene-splicing... >.>

Hats don't cut off Miqo'te ears.

They squish em :D

*reads title*
yes, use cleavers instead.
It does the job faster

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Originally Posted by Pablomaldito

Hats don't cut off Miqo'te ears.

They squish em :D

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It looks kind of painful DX ears have cartilage in them, imagine having your ears pressed down tightly vs being free

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Originally Posted by hagare

*reads title*
yes, use cleavers instead.
It does the job faster

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Hey now, I'd planned to use a chef's knife :rolleyes:

I can't edit the title sadly! I wanted to make a point but being sleep deprived might have hurt the attention I was trying to bring to miqo'te hats.

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Originally Posted by HeyMcFly

It looks kind of painful DX ears have cartilage in them, imagine having your ears pressed down tightly vs being free

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Depends on how solid Miqo ears are. Ears on cats are more flexible than human ones. Same with large dogs. The only potential sore spots would be at the base where it would be the thickest at which point it would probably feel like wearing a pair of headphones that were too tight.

actually, I prefer the hats that don't have the ears sticking out, most headgear looks ridiculous with ears sticking out of it.


maybe they can "visor" the ears.

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

IMO it's hit and miss with me in regards to the holes or pockets in headgear for Miqo ears. Some items it looks fine. Others not so much. However given that cat ears aren't made of bone they aren't really necessary from a functional standpoint. It would be like cutting holes in the sides of headgear that cover the full head for the races with humanly placed ears.

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Even if they aren't made out of bone, they're still cartilage. Folding up your ears to fit under a hat would be extremely uncomfortable for any length of time. Try folding your ear over and holding it there, that's what it would feel like for a miqo'te.

And in real life, headgear does have space for your ears. Just look at motorbike or football helmets. It's just ours don't stick out far from our head so you don't notice it as much, but extra space is still there.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Feels like gear is only really fitted to Midlanders and Lalafells, then everyone else gets to make do with whatever clipping or cutting happens.

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Because it is, there are only 3 models for each gear

roe - for roes and hroths
lala - for lalas
midlander - for every other race