So, new hair coming out... Just...

[Yandere-chan]

Because Square is greedy and racist against Viera, they won't be getting a variant. Like, seriously. Enough is enough. It's dumb that they literally exclude hair variants for an entire race in the game due to greed. It should be a standard to make variants for Viera for every added hair.

There has been more than ample time to accomplish that. Now, they are going to add Viera boys just to increase the number of people they will racially exclude new customization options to in the name of greed. And yeah, they have every right to exclude races of customization additions, just as we have every right to complain and incentivize them to choose to stop excluding races.

It should be unacceptable at this point. This is not a status quo we should tolerate any longer. We have clearly waited long enough. Square is screwing us over because they refuse to give FFXIV its proper budget to meet what should be a minimum. Clearly, they aren't going to change anything on their own w/o us making a fit over it. After this long, that can not be denied.

[Zysets]

It's definitely ridiculous to think new hairs and such aren't made to accommodate new races, I understand the backlog of material not being compatible until future updates, it was the case for Au Ra as well during Heavensward, but I would like to think new options would be made with Viera in mind? If it's clipping issues, I don't think most people would be bothered by the ears clipping a bit into hair ;p

[Amnmaat]

They should really put out a new statement regarding female Viera hair. Hrothgar is a separate race with a design choice where the hair is selected along with the face.
If it's any consolation, once male Viera comes out they will never treat female Viera and male Hrothgar as one race. Once this happens they can start letting the Viera race (male and female) get old hairstyles from mogstation, seasonal events, and possibly even level 1 hats and artifact hats/helmets.
It's not easy waiting until Endwalker but they will fix the hair situation, that's a guarantee.

[Yandere-chan]

They should really put out a new statement regarding female Viera hair. Hrothgar is a separate race with a design choice where the hair is selected along with the face.
If it's any consolation, once male Viera comes out they will never treat female Viera and male Hrothgar as one race. Once this happens they can start letting the Viera race (male and female) get old hairstyles from mogstation, seasonal events, and possibly even level 1 hats and artifact hats/helmets.
It's not easy waiting until Endwalker but they will fix the hair situation, that's a guarantee.

I really hope such things will come with Endwalker, but my faith in Square had dwindled in regard to this matter. With every new hair that is added that I'm excluded from for choosing one of the new premiere Shadowbringer races, the more I feel forgotten about and uncared for by Square, all just to save a bit of money on making minor adjustments to make the hair fit Viera. As for Hroth, they have their own issues. I hope they too will be given justice in time as well.

[DamianFatale]

I really hope such things will come with Endwalker, but my faith in Square had dwindled in regard to this matter. With every new hair that is added that I'm excluded from for choosing one of the new premiere Shadowbringer races, the more I feel forgotten about and uncared for by Square, all just to save a bit of money on making minor adjustments to make the hair fit Viera. As for Hroth, they have their own issues. I hope they too will be given justice in time as well.

Hrothgar NPCs are seen with varying hairstyles. It is absolutely in the game files, but they just aren't available to players yet. Viera might come after, because Hrothgar are a LOT worse.

[Zysets]

I really hope such things will come with Endwalker, but my faith in Square had dwindled in regard to this matter. With every new hair that is added that I'm excluded from for choosing one of the new premiere Shadowbringer races, the more I feel forgotten about and uncared for by Square, all just to save a bit of money on making minor adjustments to make the hair fit Viera. As for Hroth, they have their own issues. I hope they too will be given justice in time as well.

That's kind of my hope, with the Viera getting it's other half it's the perfect opportunity to add in all the hairs and hats they're missing out on, I was HOPPPPING for an announcement at fan fest but I'll accept a surprise on release c:

[_Koneko_]

i can't wait to see this thread again but with regards to male viera not being able to use any of the unlockable hairstyles coming out or existing ones i'm sure the dev team will get around to fixing it sometime you only waited 2+ years right :P

[Yandere-chan]

Hrothgar NPCs are seen with varying hairstyles. It is absolutely in the game files, but they just aren't available to players yet. Viera might come after, because Hrothgar are a LOT worse.

Technically it's in the game files for Viera to be able to ware headgears too, they are just forced hidden because they are worried about clipping but also don't want to spend time to make little ear pockets for Viera ears and such. That's the point though. They have just put off putting any money into expanding hair / hat customization for players even though it should of been planned for all along. Like, okay, can't get it done by release of expansion? We are used to that. But to purposely just ignore it for all this time? That isn't on accident. That was chosen on purpose. That's just really rude and uncaring for those who of course were going to want to play as Viera and Hroth. Like, they could of been allocated the budget to do that. They just wanted to dump as little money as possible into FFXIV though. It's even a meme that FFXIV is used to pay for other projects while its left with less than what's needed to meet even all its basic goals. It's worth complaining about to me.

[Zysets]

i can't wait to see this thread again but with regards to male viera not being able to use any of the unlockable hairstyles coming out or existing ones i'm sure the dev team will get around to fixing it sometime you only waited 2+ years right :P

Only doing 1 race this expansion hopefully that helps cut it down a year d;

[Iscah]

They should really put out a new statement regarding female Viera hair. Hrothgar is a separate race with a design choice where the hair is selected along with the face.
If it's any consolation, once male Viera comes out they will never treat female Viera and male Hrothgar as one race. Once this happens they can start letting the Viera race (male and female) get old hairstyles from mogstation, seasonal events, and possibly even level 1 hats and artifact hats/helmets.
It's not easy waiting until Endwalker but they will fix the hair situation, that's a guarantee.

It's not a guarantee.

As far as I'm aware it's only fan speculation that Viera and Hrothgar being linked is what leads to them artificially restricting Viera hairstyles.

If it's a deeper technical issue preventing them from using normal hair for some reason, separating the races might achieve nothing.

Maybe it's pessimistic but we can't say it's guaranteed to be the fix to the problem. Being certain now (and spreading the word that it's a certainty) just sets up for further frustration if it doesn't eventuate.