Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[RyuDragnier]

It's possible that the headgear and hairstyle situation will never be resolved. Elder Scrolls Online has two beast races and due to the different shapes of their heads, they can't use some of the same helmets and hairstyles as the more human-like playable races.

I'd expect a similar issue to be the case for FFXIV's development team. There's some stuff they can probably make work, but they'd likely have an easier time just making the occasional new hairstyle exclusive for Viera and Hrothgar.

Unlikely, the modding community already fixed the problems pretty quickly, so I don't think there's much of an excuse for it not being resolved. When the modding community has this stuff down to a science, it's time to take notes and apply what you've learned from them.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Unlikely, the modding community already fixed the problems pretty quickly, so I don't think there's much of an excuse for it not being resolved. When the modding community has this stuff down to a science, it's time to take notes and apply what you've learned from them.

The modding community really picks us the slack. I just wish Yoshi P and the dev team could get more manpower since XIV was their saving grace for a solid 2-4 years.

Demand for stuff in the game has increased yet the XIV team has gotten nothing passed the occasional more than earned paid week of vacation after big crunch times.

[Shofie]

Unlikely, the modding community already fixed the problems pretty quickly, so I don't think there's much of an excuse for it not being resolved. When the modding community has this stuff down to a science, it's time to take notes and apply what you've learned from them.

I wouldn't say modders "fixed it quickly" as I only heard of the "fix" coming down the line weeks ago, and Viera have existed for years at this point. That was not a quick fix, nor "good" one, as a lot of stuff won't work properly with it. A lot of mods only look good when carefully posed, and without movement, because surprise: they don't have quality control.

It's an enormous undertaking to make thousands of pieces of gear work, plus quality control. Modders are not beholden to SE's quality control, nor do they have to make their code work with anything "nicely" since it's client-side. It's an entirely unfair comparison to say "well modders did it so why can't SE" when these are not level playing fields for many reasons.