Valentione’s and Little Ladies’ Day (veira/hrothgar)

[Penthea]

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.

I don't think SE have ever said bunny ears are an issue for hair either, however so many players claim that this must be the reason. Hilariously some of these players have been miqos!

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.

Yea SE have already proven with two other races that they can make large non-human features on a race's head work for a huge variety of hairstyles. They even adjusted the bun placement on a hairstyle for miqos that would have otherwise clipped into their ears. Knowing all this is a huge part of the frustration I feel over hair.

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.

SE really shot themselves in the foot by making the decision to tie hrothgar hair to faces. It guarantees complications for future additions to appearance options. They knew this would upset players...at least they would know if they cared to look at feedback regarding au ra horns tied to faces. Never mind how its so common for players to change their hair often and SE have access to data that would show this very plainly. The hrothgar hair situation is puzzling because it is just so stupid.

I remember when the ShB benchmark was released I made a thread over concerns about hair on the new races and pointed out that if we get the same character creator on the live servers then it's possible that hrothgar would need a fantasia to change hair. Many told me that worrying about this was silly because the whole idea is ludicrous...and yet...that is exactly what we got.

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

I'm really hoping that covid delayed some hrothgar and viera options we should have had by now, and that May will show us this.