Do I Have to Buy the Next Expansion to Get The Viera Hairstyles?

[Steelbreaker25]

Regardless of what expansion you own, the entire game gets updated to the newest patch. So "coming with Endwalker" doesn't just mean the expansion content, it means 6.0, so all changes coming will affect all players, whether they're on the free trial, only own the base game, or are only up to Shadowbringers.

Generally speaking, an expansion only restricts the new MSQ and whatever is gated by the new MSQ. Hairstyles are not gated by EW's MSQ. I'm not entirely certain about male Viera; generally, the new races are gated by the expansion they were introduced in, but I don't if they're treating the males as a new race packaged with EW, or simply an update to old content, and available to anyone with Shadowbringers.

[Strongfat900]

Regardless of what expansion you own, the entire game gets updated to the newest patch. So "coming with Endwalker" doesn't just mean the expansion content, it means 6.0, so all changes coming will affect all players, whether they're on the free trial, only own the base game, or are only up to Shadowbringers.

Generally speaking, an expansion only restricts the new MSQ and whatever is gated by the new MSQ. Hairstyles are not gated by EW's MSQ. I'm not entirely certain about male Viera; generally, the new races are gated by the expansion they were introduced in, but I don't if they're treating the males as a new race packaged with EW, or simply an update to old content, and available to anyone with Shadowbringers.

Yeah because I've looked for official sources everywhere, and couldn't find any in regards to these things. Like, I can't buy the new expansion due to monetary reasons(tight budget and all), and I just find it odd that they want to charge us money on fixes that we've been asking for 2 years, esp given that we already pay them around 15 USD every month just to play their game. Honestly, I'm disappointed on how less transparent they are when it comes to these things. This link does insinuate the idea that the male viera is locked behind the expansion:
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/endwalker/patch_6_0/