Racial distribution, July 2021 (Luckybancho)

[Equitable_Remedy]

From this I am learning we need many more lalafells.

We... do not.

[KizuyaKatogami]

You do realize the lala is his public character, right? Who's to say what his private personal character is. It might even be a Hroth.

Yes but considering he made it very prominent how much he wanted hrothgar you’d think he’d switch to it on his public character for at least a little bit. Considering all the hard work the devs put into it the least he could do is show off their hard work publically.

[DontReadThis]

The lack of roe bros fills me with immense disappointment.

[grinkdaboy]

i think hrothgar would have been better received if they were based off of the highlander body rather than the roegadyn body, and if their faces didn't stumble too far into uncanny valley territory. their faces range from dopey, uncanny, and ronso-like. ronso would have been a far better direction to take them. i don't have anything against roegadyn players, they just seem like victims of rushed development. they made them too wide and armor just stretches and contorts over them

[KizuyaKatogami]

i think hrothgar would have been better received if they were based off of the highlander body rather than the roegadyn body

If this were the case they’d look like actual ronso which i’m sure would’ve been 10x more popular than what we got. I really don’t know why they didn’t just use them instead of trying their own weird spin on them that backfired.

[Allegor]

truth

While I mostly agree with you, I'd argue they actually did Hroths dirty, or rather, started with the wrong foot, since it's also kind of a "nobody's at fault" situation.

I mean, sure, they were never meant, let alone expected, to be a among the popular races, but it wouldn't surprise me roughly half of the people who Fantasia/created a Hroth switched to something else. Not only were they as neglected as Viera for the entirety of ShB, they're even more limited than them... in a game where appearances matter a lot. Why buy a Fantasia to change hair when you can just change to another race altogether - even I have considered switching back to Roe

[AvenoMatt]

While I mostly agree with you, I'd argue they actually did Hroths dirty, or rather, started with the wrong foot, since it's also kind of a "nobody's at fault" situation.

I mean, sure, they were never meant, let alone expected, to be a among the popular races, but it wouldn't surprise me roughly half of the people who Fantasia/created a Hroth switched to something else. Not only were they as neglected as Viera for the entirety of ShB, they're even more limited than them... in a game where appearances matter a lot. Why buy a Fantasia to change hair when you can just change to another race altogether - even I have considered switching back to Roe

This. A lot of feedback I have heard from players who tried out Hrothgar was that they would like to continue playing as a Hrothgar but the lack of hair/hats make staying as one difficult. Same goes for viera but to a lesser extent but it still stands that the lack of customization compared to other races make wanting to continue as these races hard.

On to the actual chart I am surprised by how small Hrothgar's number are as I feel like for every Roegadyn male i see i see two Hrothgars.

Viera numbers in JP are really surprising though. I guess it make sense since viera do fit more into western standards then JP's standards but I still expected then to be at least double what they are.

[DontReadThis]

I'd argue they actually did Hroths dirty..

..but it wouldn't surprise me roughly half of the people who Fantasia/created a Hroth switched to something else..
Why buy a Fantasia to change hair when you can just change to another race altogether - even I have considered switching back to Roe

I did try out Hrothgar for a while, but the "incomplete" feel of the race made me instantly switch back to roe. Sure, I may have a slight fantasia addiction, but it's not bad enough that I'm willing to spend a fantasia every time I want a different haircut. That horrible hunch of theirs also got on my nerves.

[KizuyaKatogami]

The fact that hrothgar hair is tied to fantasia is still scummy to me. The fact they haven’t addressed that at all is even more scummy to me. I get the time restraints and everything, but to release the race half assed as it was but then not even address the hair being locked behind fantasia(to my knowledge) is sad. I hope it’s something they mention soon because it’s the least they could do for hrothgar players.

[AvenoMatt]

The fact that hrothgar hair is tied to fantasia is still scummy to me. The fact they haven’t addressed that at all is even more scummy to me. I get the time restraints and everything, but to release the race half assed as it was but then not even address the hair being locked behind fantasia(to my knowledge) is sad. I hope it’s something they mention soon because it’s the least they could do for hrothgar players.

I know we aren't suppose to talk about mod but modders have made other hairstyles as well as the ones that are locked to Hrothgar faces useable to other faces. So it's not impossible, it just takes time and making individual models for some of the heads. And I too hope they mention something about Hrothgar hair since I know they said they plan on adding more hairs but from my understanding they only mentioned vieras but idk.