Quote Originally Posted by Sterre View Post
My main point was rather clear in my comment. The reason why I'm against removing any race restrictions is that this game doesn't offer any race specific content, only "content" that offers some unique traits to the races (other than the obvious physical differences) are hairstyles, hempen sets and starter gear. That honestly isn't much at all, I know not everyone cares about that stuff, but there are still many who do. Removing the restriction would take away the little uniqueness the races have left.

There's plenty of hairstyles available for all, and all the hairstyles they will add in the future will most likely be without restrictions as well, so it really isn't unreasonable to have those few hairstyles restricted.
^I agree with this. Race-specific hairstyles, aside from not requiring the devs to work to provide more to the insatiable glamour crew, provide a specific "look" to a race. There's the option for more generic hairstyles, and then there's race-specific, and I daresay "cultural" styles. It's cool to think that, oh, Au Ra, have a certain hairstyle that typifies their culture, much like Dunesfolk forehead gems and Elezen ear clasps are distinctly THEIR style. It's like when you research your heritage (whatever it is) and the clothing/style of your culture. If you see someone not from your culture, who looks very different from you, wearing or styling themselves after someone in your culture, there's something off (or wrong) about it. Keeping some things special for each race is a nice thing, it preserves a part of their "look and feel", especially in a game where these things are used, as a whole, to carve out their lore.

I don't know why it bothers people so much.