Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[BunniEclair]

Alternatively, it might not get picked if they plan on addressing it at some point in Fanfest anyway.

However if someone does ask about it I would advise being as concise as possible about what you actually want to know, leaving little wiggle room for it to be misunderstood or easily derailed. Like in my case I specifically want to know about hair implementation, so I would craft a question about that rather than a general question about the races getting updates.

Someone who wanted to specifically know if they intend to fix the hrothgar fantasia issue should probably ask about that and only that. That is actually one issue I’m super curious about...as far as I know they never addressed it as an issue they are working on a solution to, even though anyone can see it’s completely unfair and should be fixed.

[Abaigeal]

A thousand percent agree!!! you have to be very exact and concise.

[LuciaMirain]

"Ah yes! And If you look here- we see the Key Notes! The Key Notes feature the new races of last patch! But then on the SAGE PAGE you see art work of a Viera- which clearly means that Viera are the mains of SAGE- If we take that into consideration paired with the fact that the two races had a few NPC shots of their kind in the trailer... and if you combine the clues and add in a dash of rage from the community...

ALLL SIGNS POINT TO NEW THINGS FOR VIERA AND HROTHGAR!!!!!!!"


2 minutes into Key Notes...When all hopes are Dashed



"NOT LIKE THIS...EVERYTHING POINTED TO YES....."


Pretty much how I am imagining that will go! LOL

Serious Note though!! I really really just want some information- Is something being done. Or not. That's all.

Just the whole thing that the viera in the sagepic doesnt have a new hairstyle should really tell you all you need to know.

[Vahlnir]

you have to be very exact and concise.

Yep. Otherwise you get this from Yoshi P and the translator (from left to right).



Seen it happen more than once during a live Q&A. lol

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

What is your plan to provide better transparency of future works in progress? This coming from the disparaging treatment and negation of answers around Hrothgar and Viera.

but realized that it'd A. Not get picked. and B. would probably come off as bullying yoshi p.

Also realize, the Viera and Hrothgar Questions have been non-stop. YoshiP has been a good sport and has answered every question thrown at him about it, but you know even this wonderful man will have a limit. When it becomes the only question people ask no matter how many times you've answered it, thats when Questions about Minfilia's favorite type of Sandwich get answered instead.

Plus...transparency....feels like an odd question to ask when they have been transparent with us.
I think you need to reword this somehow....like, maybe something more relating to..."can you the Devs develop a Roadmap System where you share your Plans on what you have in store in upcoming patches? Something like we have this idea/feature planned, and we hope to get it done by X patch"
That would make more sense then asking about Transparency. To me at least

[BunniEclair]

The questions in the community have been nonstop. The questions that actually make their way to Yoship have been maybe once every 6 months since launch and the answers are always vague, at best, and usually revolve around the other genders.

Concrete answers have been given to 100% hat support (not happening) and that more hair is coming, someday. I think people, myself included, are now wanting to know when that someday is planned to be. Is it something we can expect in 6.0? Will it be a big update all at once, or should we expect one or two every now and then? Do they intend to keep hrothgar locked out of the aesthetician for their manes? I think these are questions that could have direct answers and would go a long way in easing the tension. He may not be the right person to ask (lead character designer and team probably have a way better idea of what’s going on with this) but since he’s the only one who regularly does interviews, I would like him to do his best, even if he can’t spend too much time or go into too much detail.

[Yencat]

Plus...transparency....feels like an odd question to ask when they have been transparent with us.

Have they though? The last person that claimed they address this all the time couldn't find a source newer than a year old, and in that video they asked us to "please just wait a little bit longer". Now I don't know what they consider "a little bit longer", but a year is definitely being generous and still nothing.

People are now expecting/hoping we'll finally see something next expansion but the fact that this wasn't communicated in any way beforehand, and we really don't even know for sure if we actually will, isn't what I'd call transparent.

[Raskbuck]

Also realize, the Viera and Hrothgar Questions have been non-stop. YoshiP has been a good sport and has answered every question thrown at him about it, but you know even this wonderful man will have a limit. When it becomes the only question people ask no matter how many times you've answered it, thats when Questions about Minfilia's favorite type of Sandwich get answered instead.

I was under the impression they haven't addressed the Viera and Hrothgar issue at all, so I'm a little surprised to hear that. Do you remember when they did that? So I can look it up.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Have they though? The last person that claimed they address this all the time couldn't find a source newer than a year old, and in that video they asked us to "please just wait a little bit longer". Now I don't know what they consider "a little bit longer", but a year is definitely being generous and still nothing.

People are now expecting/hoping we'll finally see something next expansion but the fact that this wasn't communicated in any way beforehand, and we really don't even know for sure if we actually will, isn't what I'd call transparent.

They told us what to expect with the Viera and Hrothgar, that they would have limited hair options, they told us about the headgear issue, they told us that this "may be the last time they could develop new races, so they wanted to both give something thats been requested for a long time, and something they wanted to do that was also requested" not a 100% verbatim retelling, but its what was said.
People every chance they got would try to ask about Male Viera and sometimes Female Hrothgar, and they have addressed this saying that they barley had enough time to do what they did in the 1st place, and that there are resource issues and technical issues atm. If they could implement them in the future, they would.
I call that pretty transparant. And YoshiP keeps answering these questions even though he already answered them.

Also, we still have another fanfest or 2 left before the release of the game, they haven't revealed to us everything to expect out the gate, and they wont till the planned time.
So this lack of transparency Im seeing sounds more like you want answers beforehand, before the planned reveals during the time that they actually talk about these things. Its not like he can just break the news now.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

The questions in the community have been nonstop. The questions that actually make their way to Yoship have been maybe once every 6 months since launch and the answers are always vague, at best, and usually revolve around the other genders.

Concrete answers have been given to 100% hat support (not happening) and that more hair is coming, someday. I think people, myself included, are now wanting to know when that someday is planned to be. Is it something we can expect in 6.0? Will it be a big update all at once, or should we expect one or two every now and then? Do they intend to keep hrothgar locked out of the aesthetician for their manes? I think these are questions that could have direct answers and would go a long way in easing the tension. He may not be the right person to ask (lead character designer and team probably have a way better idea of what’s going on with this) but since he’s the only one who regularly does interviews, I would like him to do his best, even if he can’t spend too much time or go into too much detail.

I think some of these will be answered soon honestly. If no "Missing Genders" customization options is definitely something that should have been worked on.