VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[reivaxe]

See, I like yoshi and want to give him the benefit of the doubt because I honestly thing that he slapped that limitation on Hrothgar because of the simple fact that H/V were rushed to begin with. but to say that its working as intended? No. I absolutely refuse to accept that notion because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that this was going to blow up in his face the moment people figured it out

Imma try to keep this short.

What part of Hrothgar and Viera doesn't seem intentional?

Viera? They wanted to just make FF14 Fran. It's what people asked for, after all. They coulda just took Miqote hair and made longer ears outta them but nope.

Hrothgar, why can they not have hairstyles from other faces?
Welp, each Hrothgar head was designed to have a different size-n-shaped forehead and ears. From a design standpoint, this could be pinned on the fact that the devs made them full animal looking, and it's hard for humans to tell the difference between non-human faces, so they made them each look very different. They didn't HAVE to design them this way though, and because their heads are so different the hairline for each mane would fk up on any head that it wasn't made for ... so the devs would have to make alterations to each Hrothgar hair to not make it look like cheapo clippy garbo work on the 3 other heads. They don't do that for any race.

Why can Hrothgar not at least change between the TWO hairs for their 1 face? Cause part of their hairstyle is in their face features tab for w/e reason. This isn't the case for ANY other race, they just have bits of hair in their face features tab for w/e reason. Perhaps they really couldn't find a way for more stuff to be in the Fur Pattern (AKA Hair for any other race) tab, but again, that's a design choice to have barely seen fur patterns be a part of this race and suck up so much CC.

Why would they do this if they know how it would be received?
Why would devs making this game (where most people play pretty/ cute characters) make people who play the big better-looking-Roe-bro males race with beast faces pay extra? If I were to put on my profit-driven-company hat, I'd say ... YP really liked the idea of a big beast dude option, and much like he said ... he had no idea how popular it would be. These races cost time and money not only to make but also to support, as they make everything more expensive to do.


Simply put, it gives them more of a return on investment if w/e small amount of Hrothgar players pay them extra money. There's way more FV than MH, but I do wonder how much money SE has made from the 24k Hrothgar players who may have wanted to change up their hair sometimes over the past 2 years. Depending on how many arvg Hrothgar actually pay money to change their hair, they could have made just as much or more $10 Potion sells as they did on Viera Females over the past 2 years.

This is why I'm very interested in seeing 6.1's Hrothgar changes ... and it's also why I'm 100% sure Hrothgar are still gonna have to pay $$$ to get this solution, just like people with stubby Middie face.

edit-
So basically, you all seem to think that these devs (After making Male Miqote/ Femroe/ Thighlanders AND Au R ALL fully functional) just got slapped by some rando incompetence stick when it came to these races. I don't, I think it's clear that they wanted to give people what they were asking for with Viera (aka, be true to what "Viera" are and make them look like Fran instead of like long earred tall Miqote) and wanted to ensure they got a good profit from Hrothgar by making that smaller amount of players pay. Even if you don't think it was money driven, they know how to make fully functional races, none of this was accidental even if poorly thought out.