Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
alright lets cut back the roe hate here. There's nothing wrong with roegadyn, although this is my personal take since I play roegadyn on my main and to me theyre the best race in this game
Roes too deserve better both in-game and in the community. Sincerely, someone who played Roegadyn up until they released Hrothgar.

Really guys, no one cares about whether or not you would go X race over Y, that isn't the point of this channel and it's just completely uncalled for. Because remember, this may be happening to Hrothgars, but if the standards keep being lowered, one day it may happen to you. And even if it won't, if it could happen to you, you definitely wouldn't want people bashing on your choices like this.

Quote Originally Posted by Alieno View Post
The fact that they were laughing while showing them off... They know they look awful, but still went with it. Pretty disrespectful to many of us if you ask me.
My friend says that Yoshida looking aside each time and simply chuckling rather than actual laughter should be an indication that he's not happy with what he had to present. But at the same time, I am wondering about that. Yoshida does have to approve what gets done, and we know that he's fairly controlling about their work and when they do it. Which makes me question... either, somehow, Yoshida approved something he didn't want, or he just had to make do with what little they could do.

Which maybe it means that they didn't have time to do this? But if that's the case, it goes against what we're told their normal workflow is, where things tend to be looked over at least once before approval. Meaning someone decided on this, someone made this and someone approved of this. If they're understaffed, they should have had foresight before saying they'd implement these things. Which are decisions that have been going around since 5.55 iirc? If they just didn't have time, then it's still a weird lack of foresight because it means they didn't allocate the proper time or resources into making this.

One thing is certain. Some level of quality assurance failed here, unless this is somehow seen as acceptable to them. Which given what I heard about Yoshida's reaction, them thinking it's acceptable doesn't add up. So it's really hard to understand whether he's not happy with the result or if he was knowingly laughing at how bad the end result was and shrugging it off.

I don't know, something isn't quite right with this whole situation. I'm just trying to understand what could have happened before criticizing people any further. Especially since I under no circumstance know what their actual policy or workflow is.

And one more thing about all this. Hrothgar hairstyles didn't even get posted in the main FFXIV Twitter account, @FF_XIV_EN. There's no mention of them there at all. So either they once again neglected Hrothgars, or they know they're not presentable.