Dissapointed With The Live Letter

[SturmChurro]

So, first of all, I wanna make it clear that I had little to no expectations from this, but honestly, this was even dissapointing that way. First off all, they ignored some of the most liked questions like missingg genders and such, but that was expected. Then, we got a very, very dissapointing reveal. Female vieras will never get acces to the hairstyles all races do. Then, we also know DNC and GNB wont get acces to the coolest looking weapon sets in the game, at least for a long time. Instead of spending time awnsering higly asked questions, they spent time awnsering questions that barely had likes and I doubt many players really cared about.

Honestly, dissapointed with this Live Letter

PD: Reminder that this thread isnt to start fights with each other, to talk about topics like missing genders (theres 2 threads for that) or to insult the devs or any other players by any means

I don't care if male viera weren't even talked about, nobody should have expected that.

Yeahhh... If they're gonna keep hairstyles race specific, I seriously hope they add race specific hairstyles that look an awful lot like the ones you have to unlock or pay for.

Huge disappointment if they don't.

This is some grade A Bull manure. Not only were the races rushed, and hrothgar designed into a corner. Limited headgear, but not only that, fully limited hair too? These races feel more like appeasements to certain fan wants, but also marketing ploys.

[Inuk9]

You mad about glamour?... ok

He is mad about his male viera wet dreams in his signature not being in the game. But he is not talking about it, of course...

How about we leave the creative team do whatever they want with their game? What a crazy idea!

[Altera]

927 page long Gender thread wasnt enough for you huh? If gender is thee most important part of the game, i kinda feel you have your priorities in a weird place. If i cannot use the old hairstyle that i could on my Highlander, so be it. Viera will get more unique hairstyle that others cannot use.
Seriously, the other gender will probably be part of the next expansion given how long it takes to developer races.

From what I saw in the LL, I am happy with what I saw.

I kinda see your behaviour with these gender threads as a nuisance and borderlining harassment of the development team.
If you want them to make weapons and such from 2.0-4.58, they would have to slow down development on new fresh content and gear. Do you think time isnt a big part of their decisionmaking? They arent doing this to piss people off you know. Siiiigh

[Loki]

Just bored about the same answers we have again and again concerning "memory data restrictions". They can't just add a simple beard....come on.....

I hoped they would add options and customization for every races (now the 2 last races are available) but with this kind of answer i'm just disapointed cause a beard is just like a hairstyle, so what the trouble?

They are just lazy? SE doesn't want to invest in their game cause FF7 with its 20 dlc eats all our subs and cash shop bills?

During years we had some "ps3 limitations" for most of everything, now what? Ps4/5/10?

[Altera]

Just bored about the same answers we have again and again concerning "memory data restrictions". They can't just add a simple beard....come on.....

I hoped they would add options and customization for every races (now the 2 last races are available) but with this kind of answer i'm just disapointed cause a beard is just like a hairstyle, so what the trouble?

They are just lazy? SE doesn't want to invest in their game cause FF7 with its 20 dlc eats all our subs and cash shop bills?

During years we had some "ps3 limitations" for most of everything, now what? Ps4/5/10?

Lazy huh, go work the same amount as these developers do, and I bet you will see things ina different perspective. I have worked 12-14 hour workdays over long period of time and it almost killed me healthwise as I was exhausted physically and mentally and got very little sleep. And you can clearly see Yoshida is drained in the LL.
People who call game developers lazy, should look in the mirror and ask themself if THEY are really productive and how to do more if possible. You constantly hear game studios and Crunchtime where they work endlessly and often without overtime pay etc.

Shadowbringers has been an amazing experience so far, so I would say the budget to XIV has not gone down but up as even they animations and voiceacting this time has been really great.

PS: There will ALWAYS be limitations, be it time, money, hardware, manpower, so get used to it. Even if you have a monster PC, there are many who cannot afford that. And if they cut PS4 support, this game would prolly loose hundreds of thousands of subscribers, meaning less people to queue with, less income to XIV which means less budget going forward.

[Lunavi]

I kinda see your behaviour with these gender threads as a nuisance and borderlining harassment of the development team.
If you want them to make weapons and such from 2.0-4.58, they would have to slow down development on new fresh content and gear. Do you think time isnt a big part of their decisionmaking? They arent doing this to piss people off you know. Siiiigh

This so much. I am a huge supporter of the addition of Male Vieras, but some people make it really hard to rally their cause considering that they act like crybabies and literally tries to suck out all the joy of everything else in the game for everyone else until it happens. Like come on! This LL had so much stuff to feel hyped about such as the Y'shtola glam which I personally have been asking for since we saw Y'shtola's new groove and the job changes and the (to some) LONG awaited PvP changes. I could see people wanting more 5.1 info, even though we are months from it happening, but to complain about no speak of Vierra when they have literally done a statement about that already is so over the top.

[Iscah]

Just bored about the same answers we have again and again concerning "memory data restrictions". They can't just add a simple beard....come on.....

Look at how the current beards are implemented: toggle options in the "other features" menu. They're unique to the face, and need to change shape depending on the settings you've chosen for the jawline.

Adding more toggles means adding extra data to the character, and that's something they're avoiding doing. It would affect a lot of parts of the game, including presumably the legacy code they don't like to fiddle with and tend to build around.

[Mikhaill]

this isnt to discuss missing genders. Like I said, they didnt give an awnser to that, and many other questions (that awnser wasnt even an awnser, it was simply a who knows)

I've seen you on the Viera topic and I'm all for them adding the other sides but look, my man...
This post is obviously you very upset about not updated stance of the matter.
Just stop it. They said it already, it's in the backburner. That's it. They said putting those two races were already hard as is.
I agree they are rushed, I agree that the hairstyle comment is weird, and I hate genderlocks and support the other sides as well.
We can support, hold hands and sing Kumbayah for days but it won't make them change their minds for now.
I mean, I've been pretty underwhelmed and upset at the game numerous times but...

You must be patient. Just like us healers are playing the same damned healers for almost 6 years.
We really need other things in the game to be taken cared of as well and this LL in that aspect didn't do much for anyone all around.

[SturmChurro]

Apparently "legacy hairstyles" meant viera specific. Using the definition of legacy, maybe more viera hair from the other games or concepts we've seen? I don't even know what they looked like either way. People were definitely completely confused.

[xbahax92]

Why did they answer about Meol? Like...out of all the questions asked, you ask about that ...?

They answer these questions so people can complain. That must be it.