VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Roransu]

So if they're going to just cut off the ears for these new hairstyles, why can't Viera and Hrothgar have hats? At this point, if the art team isn't going to give us new hats with the ears, just chop off our ears when we're wearing them. It's honestly better than nothing.

The best part is they've already done this and have allowed ears to just clip through. The Shadowless set lets Viera ears just clip through and the Paglthan maiming and fending sets just outright delete ears. Its depressing that people will still defend SE for this and not call them out for being lazy.

[ThivraK]

Considering how much he seems to value perfection (as shown from the EW delay because he tried to get it perfect), he's probably as unhappy as we are..

please stop deifying and defending him on issues like this when he's the head of damn studio who decides and signs off on things like this.
people who get paid to do/redo already existing 3d assets are somehow unable to do what a single modder does in their spare time? not to mention, also take more time than said modder?
he's perfectly fine with this, and instead of blaming it on him for allowing this crap to be shown, you absolve him of blame. same with similar issues like class or dungeon design.
he's the head honcho, he knows about all of this and is perfectly fine with every single issue, because people will still blindly defend this crap, him and his lies throughout the years.

[RyuDragnier]

I'm not deifying him. I'm reading his body language and remembering him LITERALLY BREAKING DOWN IN TEARS BECAUSE HE HAD TO DELAY ENDWALKER. This man takes things very personally when he feels he has let down players. It doesn't excuse the hell out of this, at all. If anything it makes me feel like he knows they can do better, and wants to. Now he needs to prove to us he can, by having those ears on the hairstyles when the patch hits.

[LisSquid]

I see we're back to copium in this thread.

Anyone who greenlit the Hrothgar hair better fess up to the April Fools joke. Sitting on it, not nearly that surprised. Even the end of season PvP reward is a reskin of pieces. Most of EW is a reskin. What is happening in the FFXIV internal world? I'd say it's just covid, but there has been a decline in effort for the assets department since SB.

[Jason_Ashford]

I'm not deifying him. I'm reading his body language and remembering him LITERALLY BREAKING DOWN IN TEARS BECAUSE HE HAD TO DELAY ENDWALKER. This man takes things very personally when he feels he has let down players. It doesn't excuse the hell out of this, at all. If anything it makes me feel like he knows they can do better, and wants to. Now he needs to prove to us he can, by having those ears on the hairstyles when the patch hits.

that's why we need to express our disappointment because this is entirely unacceptable. They could have easily paid the modders who already did ALL of this and more to finish the rest of the hairstyles and move on, but instead we are forced to have earless freaks if we want to have any kind of hairstyle that doesn't require us to buy a fantasia to change

[RyuDragnier]

I see we're back to copium in this thread.

Comes with the territory sadly, since we've been here for 3 damned years and still suffering. Either we accept it, voice our displeasure, and hope it gets fixed, or we fantasia or quit. There's sadly no alternatives here. Copium or you give up.

[juicybug]

[HeyMcFly]

I'm not deifying him. I'm reading his body language and remembering him LITERALLY BREAKING DOWN IN TEARS BECAUSE HE HAD TO DELAY ENDWALKER. This man takes things very personally when he feels he has let down players. It doesn't excuse the hell out of this, at all. If anything it makes me feel like he knows they can do better, and wants to. Now he needs to prove to us he can, by having those ears on the hairstyles when the patch hits.

I understand your point, We can & should be respectful even though this is a clear screw up and lapse of judgement.

BUT I think if he really cared & knew his team could do better, he should have just shown us the concept art of hairstyles planning to be added then asked for more time and not went with these... horrid decisions to push those hairs out- I'd have been okay with that
People are still going to sub/ buy fantasias/ they'll complain for 2-3 months then it will die down until a year of silence passes.

[Jason_Ashford]

I understand your point, We can & should be respectful even though this is a clear screw up and lapse of judgement.

BUT I think if he really cared & knew his team could do better, he should have just shown us the concept art of hairstyles planning to be added then asked for more time and not went with these... horrid decisions to push those hairs out- I'd have been okay with that
People are still going to sub/ buy fantasias/ they'll complain for 2-3 months then it will die down until a year of silence passes.

if they don't address it all between now and 6.1, I plan on giving up and using a fantasia to switch races. I wasted 3 years waiting for this to be fixed, and all they did was spit in my face. i'm done.

[HeyMcFly]

if they don't address it all between now and 6.1, I plan on giving up and using a fantasia to switch races. I wasted 3 years waiting for this to be fixed, and all they did was spit in my face. i'm done.

It's why I've just consigned to being a lalafell.
I've always loved the Viera race but they're quite lackluster in XIV- I figured we'd never get anything of substance added to them unless mods were involved

I hope you & the many other disgruntled folks find happiness in their characters- I wish everyone would just get a free pity fantasia at this point though.