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

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I agree with the OP; nitpicking on words is a very convenient way to not discuss the topic.
Square enix is a multi billion dollar organization; they get paid to have community managers who will/might pass topics of discussion to them.

The FFXIV team is one that went through FFXIV 1.0 and the lead up to 2.0, they know criticism of the game is never personal and is always done out of love for the game. It's not when people are passionate/mean that you should worry, it's when they stop that you should. I've seen plenty of promising mmorpgs where the playerbase criticized the devs out of love, but now you go to their forums, social media, or discord and it's a desert. They couldn't pay anyone to give feedback about the game if they wanted to.

As for the topic at hand; I'll repeat, they will fix the hair situation sometime in Endwalker. I can't say it'll be 6.0 when Endwalker comes out, but I can almost guarantee that it'll be by 6.1. As much as they love everything to be a marketing surprise for Live Letters, etc, this issue with the hairstyles for female Viera really stings for them.

I understand pre-Shadowbringers hairstyles, but patch 5.5 is adding a new hairstyle and they can't use it, ouch.


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It's not really nitpicking, the reason why people keep arguing about it is because the OP refuses to back down from something that people think is pretty obvious.
I think that if you showed the comments about it being racism to pretty much anyone they'd have a very negative reaction to it and think that it's a crazy accusation.

No one is saying that you can't criticize the devs either, in this very thread there are people criticizing both the OP for throwing the term '' racism '' around so wildly AND criticizing the devs for the hairstyle situation.
I am pretty sure that if you went up to Yoshida and accused him of being racist he'd have a negative reaction to it too and take it personally.
Because it is a personal attack and accusation.

That's not tone policing either, no one is criticizing the OP for being emotional people are criticizing the OP for that term being used.
If the OP had just not used that but been upset it wouldn't be a problem.

Posting a fancy screenshot you found with a nice buzzword is also a convenient way to not have to adress peoples actual problems and criticism.

Edit: Maybe some people are criticizing the OP for being emotional, but not the person you accused of tone policing.

And when male Viera and female Hrothgar are out and they still haven't done anything the threads are going to keep coming.

So you'll just have to deal with the pointless whining.

Have they even said that the Male Viera hair won't be usable on Female Viera?
I mean Male Viera had very similar looking hair in the trailer it wouldn't even surprise me if they end up sharing hair and that's how they add more.

A guarantee?!!! Where did you get that information from?

There's absolutely no official standpoint on this matter.

You do not have any references to back up your claim because - guess what - you just made them on your mind!

This is some real facts and logics right here, you're a real internet debater.
Respect.