Dear Square Enix, can you remove the race restrictions on hairstyles?

[ErikMynhier]

Highlander lore, they always shave their eyebrows. The girls don't though :/.

I have eyebrows.

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[YuzukiHibiya]

This would add more customization options to our WoL so I'm all for it!! Plus I want the double bun from the Female Lalas for my Hyur SE PLEASE DO THIS <3

[Tarta]

I'm sure changing the XYZ coordinates for the in-game hairstyle models to fit that races' head shape/size isn't much of an issue, seeing as how the Lightning hair looks on AuRa females.

The problem isn't that it is difficult. The problem is that it takes game resources that may not be available to lower end systems (like the PS3).
Loading 50 hairstyles in 1 zone is a thing. Loading 300 hairstyles due to different race/gender configurations however is different and lag will occur from client side. Lag may even occur from server side too at that point.
It's the same thing about character details. It's not difficult to implement. The challenge is shrinking the resources it uses. You gotta ditch certain things so the game isn't unplayable on PS3.

[Shougun]

I have eyebrows.

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You use paint! (Very well, but still it's not real lol).

I don't mind the lore saying default wise they shave them, but if other races can change their hairstyle then I don't see why I have to shave every morning XD.

To add to the OP though if it wasn't clear before, I did like it . While I get perhaps when you first get a new race or region there are a bunch of unique hairstyles because its a new culture and style, but after a short period of time it makes little sense to lock them. Throw them behind quests and stuff if they don't want to release them outright but like I said except for "new/incoming" culture it makes less sense. Except maybe technical reasons, no idea what SE's back-end looks like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

[Automedius]

The problem isn't that it is difficult. The problem is that it takes game resources that may not be available to lower end systems (like the PS3).
Loading 50 hairstyles in 1 zone is a thing. Loading 300 hairstyles due to different race/gender configurations however is different and lag will occur from client side. Lag may even occur from server side too at that point.
It's the same thing about character details. It's not difficult to implement. The challenge is shrinking the resources it uses. You gotta ditch certain things so the game isn't unplayable on PS3.

The Luminous 2.5 Engine (FFXIV's engine) works as any other engine would work. Which means in Assembly or PPC, all the developers would have to do is re-edit the hairstyle by NOP'ing four bytes (32 INT) then figuring out how to hook those into functions to make it playable.

Also, the PlayStation 3 will be dropped in support once 4.0 is out. Which makes this much more realistic.

[Yorha]

Yes please

[Keydah]

Miqo'te ears and Au Ra horns create issues. They have been increasing the number of common styles, but I think this may be an ask too far.

That lalafel twintails hair we got back in 2.x challenges that theory. Besides the pigtails, it's tight against the head. There's no excuse now. There's few hairs that would clip through the horns weirdly, and that's not much of an issue for miqo ears.

[LizcFalcon]

In my opinion the default hairstyles can get pretty boring on their respective races, and would look much better on others. Anyone else agree? Or not so much?

I think it's a good idea to remove the race restrictions on hairstyles. More options could be opened up for uniqueness of a character. While there is many hairstyles it's limited by race. All hairstyles for all!!!

[Namida-Hikari]

Highlander lore, they always shave their eyebrows.

I want to be a insurgent Highlander. With eyebrows and Miqo'te vest & zouaves.

[briarth0rn]

If I remember correctly, in the early months of the ARR patch cycle, the team was unlocking hairstyles from one race for others in each new patch. I'm not sure why that stopped, but I think they were doing this at one point.

Huh! I didn't really get active until about 2.4, so that's news to me. They should do that again.