The Hat Problem...

I'm not going to sugarcoat it, i'm not going to write up a twenty page dissertation; i'm just going to say it.
Outside of a scant few helmets, you have stopped supporting non-human head-shapes and this needs to change; I'm getting tired of having to go back to ARR/HW/SB for hats that will actually account for the race i chose back in beta for ARR.

I get it. Non human head-shapes are hard to account for, ears horns and all whatnot... but we're not the ones that put these head-shapes into the game; And if unpaid modders can come up with solutions to these problems, i am very certain that you can too through the use of actual money.

I'm writing from the miqo'te perspective, but i'm not the only character with issues.
(Please, do not make this into an "i have it worse" thread if people respond... its the core issue, not who has it worse.)

Feature suggestion: Offer a place where people can submit their art models that fix hat issues in exchange for credits on the FFXIV Store Page and/or Crysta

Aside from that, with how powerful AI is today, generative AI should be able to come up with fixes for the hat problem.

before hrothgar and viera came out, i would want to play miqo all the time, but they seriously have such a bad hat problem. half the appeal of a miqo is that you have those cute ears, why on earth are they always smooshed underneath a hat...? i guess it is just too hard to make ear holes for a base game race. lol.

They shoult just hire the person who does the Viera and Hrothgar hats mod.

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Originally Posted by PorxiesRCute

They shoult just hire the person who does the Viera and Hrothgar hats mod.

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i agree. i'm honestly surprised they don't ever try to outsource and hire well-loved modders. even if it is for a one-off job like retroactively updating all hats. i think that would go over well with the community too.

I just am resigned that I'm never going to get a new hat again in this game.

I find it odd given how popular cat-people are, but here we are. No excuse for this at all - it's just shoddy quality.

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

I just am resigned that I'm never going to get a new hat again in this game.

I find it odd given how popular cat-people are, but here we are. No excuse for this at all - it's just shoddy quality.

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it's really strange!!! miqo'te are singlehandedly the most popular race in the game and even they get the short end of the stick. it's really embarrassing from SE. all of the cutting corners is really catching up to FFXIV.

Correct. I wrote a thread on the matter, as well, should you want to support it.

There's just no effort when it comes to the racial features of non-hyuran races. The recent Vanguard head pieces of Fending/Maiming are an example, with the ear compartments being placed wrong because they come from the circular shapes to the sides of the helmet. This would've been fixed if the shapes had been positioned further back, adjusted per race or if the compartments simply sprouted from the logical spots in the helmet.

Same goes for caps like the Street Cap or the Calfskin Rider's one. They should have ear holes for them to stick out. And if players would rather not show the ears in these cases, then just add a toggle.

Let's also not forget about tails being removed from certain outfits since EW either.

yea theyre getting lazier and lazier. since dawntrail they also gave up on elezen (and lalafell) ears on armor. no more earsockets. which in hoods can be explained away but also in metal helmets. and the DRAGOON ARMOR. the elezen posterboy class. they couldnt even be bothered to give us that.

also the first dragoon helmet in history without cool visor options and/or glowing eyes. its so lazy and boring it actually pisses me off

Wait, you guys can actually wear hats?

something i thought was cool was that if you equip the new tank/maiming raid helmet it shows the sunglasses, so you get a pair of sickass sunglasses

It's so bad. You either can't wear a hat without the ears being deleted or you can't wear a hat at all. Fine if they're hidden for something like helmets, but cloth items should just let the ears poke out. It looks fine.

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Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

something i thought was cool was that if you equip the new tank/maiming raid helmet it shows the sunglasses, so you get a pair of sickass sunglasses

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Would be better if the sunglasses were added as facewear and the hat actually showed your ears (or gave you the option to).

Look. they are sweating enough already when they let vierra/Hrotgar wear 2 new ARR per patch. I don't think we can realisticly expect them to dare put enough effort into this atp.

Some hats I feel work better without the cat ears... And honestly, I don't think the team designing gear even know what heads look like, let alone where the ears are or what they look like...

Like the Vanguard Fending/Maiming helmets that recently got ear pockets for Miqo'te...
https://i.ibb.co/3RM5jL7/ffxiv-30072024-202501-127.png
https://i.ibb.co/JqMSQXY/ffxiv-30072024-202452-648.png

The helmets are smaller than the head, and the ears are on the forehead.

It's strange to me because Y'Shtola is basically the face of the game... a miqo...

I have a Face 2 Xaela main and I just wish my horns would stop clipping through everything.

please fix it, we love our characters and we want to be able to wear our armor and still look like our character instead of an 7 foot tall midlander