Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
So nothing about viera or hrothgar in the announcements but they mostly only showed teasers so we have to wait until May to get the real meat.

I'm praying we will at least get a handful of the non-racial hair. Even if it's just the ones from the mog station. At this point any minor addition would be great. As for hats, it's a more complicated issue but even just adjusting -some- of the hats would be very well received. I don't think anyone is expecting to get everything at once. Getting more bit by bit would be very welcome, and they should start with AF headgear because they tend to be the more iconic pieces.

Below is an image I saved from another similar thread months ago that very much illustrates how bunny ears are just not an excuse for not adding more hairstyles. I know that hrothgar hunch so some hair would clip but nothing is stopping SE from adding hair that would not, and there are plenty of hairstyles that fall into that category.
Agreed on all of the above, but FWIW I don't believe SE themselves has actually ever said that the ears are a particular problem for them to be able to add the hairstyles. They haven't said anything about it at all which is probably worse, but they're not using that excuse at least.

The ears float slightly above the skull on the model so they might have to "raise" some of the hairstyles to meet the ears so there's no visible space between them, but they generally put in the extra work to accommodate Au Ra horns and Miqo'te ears so doing something for Viera is not an insurmountable effort compared to what they already do.

I suspect the reason is because it's not so cut and dry for Hrothgar, and even if they released more hairstyles for them they wouldn't be able to access them without a Fantasia, it would be deemed unfair because as of right now we're for all intents and purposes the new male and female race. But that's just me speculating.

Fingers crossed for May for both races because it's really been way too long for something as basic as hairstyles at least.