New things from German interview with yoshida

[Fourbestintoner]

*We designed them badly on purpose and never actually worked to implement hats and hairstyles*
Loo, not surprised

[Drkdays]

It's just hats and hairdos. Good lord. Everything else works fine.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I mean I doubt we will ever see community pushback against negligence like this unless its widespread and egregious. That's the problem when players are super buddy-buddy with the company they pay money to, there's no pressure to not half ass things.

People who don't play H/V will just shrug and move on. People who do play H/V will just mod and deal with it.


A shame though, we're losing out on so much because of this approach ;(.

Unfortunately it’s a big problem with this community in general. People are fine being spoonfed by SE and will accept anything they do and constantly defend every action they take no matter how bad. I strongly believe it’ll be the death of the game at some point because people just go around like blind sheep.Community pushback is very rare and i was genuinely surprised by the Male Viera and Female Hrothgar fans actively taking a stand. If only they would do that more often.

[Raikai]

Whatever is going on, it suggests that it's not just "we don't want to revisit old gear". Something stops them from being able to share hairstyles with the other races. Otherwise it shouldn't be more modification work than they already have to do for Miqo'te, so why stop short?







I feel like the angle of the ear bases means that hats would have to be quite big to line up with them? Which might look fine over hair, but it's hard to tell. They tend to have very bulky hairstyles as far as I can think.

I've seen similar glitches with Miqo'te too, and their ears float in a similar distance than of Viera... and the caps, bandanas, etc, all float a little above the actual scalp, if you compare some images... It's just that Viera ears would need different kind of holes.

Of course, point hats, for example, defnitely would be really hard to work because their point would clip upwards. I mean literally bandanas and caps, they can be workable just with the holes.

[Puremallace]

Worst mistake they ever made was adding to Viera to this MMO. Why do you want hats if you are supposed to be a bunny? It is LITERALLY a race made from playboy bunny's. The entire point is the ears and nice figure. I seriously thought all the feminist would get more upset by the prior things vs not having the equality of a hat.

[BunniEclair]

Worst mistake they ever made was adding to Viera to this MMO. Why do you want hats if you are supposed to be a bunny? It is LITERALLY a race made from playboy bunny's. The entire point is the ears and nice figure. I seriously thought all the feminist would get more upset by the prior things vs not having the equality of a hat.

Can we stop with the “Playboy Bunny” crap already? Get some new material. They are tall women with bunny ears, there’s nothing more inherently sexist about them over the other races.

[Theodric]

To be fair, I don't think he's necessarily wrong about such being the inspiration behind their design...

The addition of male viera has allowed the race to move away from that stereotype somewhat, but let's not forget that Yoshi-P himself is on record stating that he would be reluctant to add them because, in his own words, 'a male rabbit might be kind of weird'.



He's since changed his mind and the interview in question is from 2013 but still...

[MagiusNecros]

I want to know why they thought tying hairstyles to faces on Hrothgar was a good decision.

Forces players to buy fantasia if they want a particular hairstryle later on.

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Except it literally is. If you want to do that, Fantasia and New Game+ are there for you.

In a game where you can be literally any job on a single character, alts don't make a lot of sense.

Especially when there are so many critics out there who say that the story is "over long".

Not gonna hand over 35+ dollars, taxes included on all the purchases and resubbing, every time on name changes and fantasia's when I want to play around on another character. My alt Rupert Faradae wouldn't be caught dead wearing long sleeve clothes. My alt Brandon Sharpe wouldn't ever go without masks. My main Allison Amelie, previously Alvaro Rivera (fantasia'd and name changed because there is no job in the game that fits his theme anymore), wouldn't ever go parading around in hats. Sometimes I want to play certain jobs and wear certain pieces of glamour but they do not fit certain characters. Not gonna play anything aside RDM or MCH on Rupert, as nothing else fits his theme. Not gonna unlock or play tanks or MCH on Brandon, not his thing. Not gonna unlock GNB or play melee jobs on Allison, not his thing.

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I suppose I'll just be taking that 35 dollars elsewhere and spend it on food or on games that aren't as laughably restrictive when it comes to alts. Certainly not going to spend it on this game where you run of out crap to do endgame and getting alts through ARR is the biggest chore. Especially when a lot of other, far more entertaining, games are being released in June and July.

[Rosenstrauch]

Why do you want hats if you are supposed to be a bunny?