New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[BrunoKazuki]

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.

I had the same feeling when I saw them laugh, it was a lack of respect for us the hrothgar players, also those hairstyles are too feminine for a race of male Hrothgars... developers respect characters and players please.

[AnAverageAspie]

also those hairstyles are too feminine for a race of male Hrothgars... developers respect characters and players please.

As someone who is more heteroflexible and occasionally wears maid and other dresses from time to time, I don't have an issue with a selection of feminine hairstyles. However, I am disappointed that the selection isn't an equal variety of feminine or masculine hairstyles. If the windcaller hairstyle was included then I'd be happy and content with that and the snow cut. But not only is that not the case but they trim off our ears too ><

[Azazel_Grim]

I'm a very experienced 3D Artist. It took me 25 minutes to figure out how to rip from the game, and throw this together:

While it does look significantly better with ears, it goes to show their hair choices were abysmal, and nonsensical.

[SacraAnima]

just.... so much better with ears
but yes, even with ears, the choice is very questionable

[SacraAnima]

Some concept sketches thrown together today, playing with the idea of the unique hairs we were promised

[Jodhi]

Some concept sketches thrown together today, playing with the idea of the unique hairs we were promised

Gods this looks hella hot, why can't this be applicable instead of those.. thing..

[Zomkei]

wait, this WASNT an april fools joke?

and here i thought they looked bad on viera... this is just awful.

[Starshower]

I hope they walk that back.. it not being shown in the twitter gives me some hope. I'm happy being a hroth right now, but I have to say, I was hyped for the hairstyles and now I'm a little bummed out because of all of the negativity surrounding it. I want to see what will happen on the patch.

[Shibi]

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.

Yoshida-san has always explained in the past he has a nico nico screen over there with the stream on it, so he shows the slide/printout then reads the reaction of the Japanese players in real time.

[Zorixas]

Traditionally, you're meant to inform people it was an April's fool prank.

But honestly, despite this not making any sense as you said, I don't know? Like, it's not normal for them to go out of their way like this to make something that they'll just discard. It looks like they had a lot of effort into changing how ears work just for this. It feels like it's real, it has every indication that it is real. Surely we've had heard something about it by now if it weren't, no?

It's unfortunate but if it were actually an April Fools joke, Yoshida would have immediately followed up the reveal of these hairstyles with 'April Fools! These aren't actually real in game representations.' It'd be pretty bad to keep a joke going for this long.

That aside as hrothgar player myself it truly is disappointing. Both the hairsyles and the dev team's stance on it. I cant help but wonder if hrothgar were as popular of a race as say... viera, would the limitations still be as prevalent as they say they are?

What has me questioning it is that this is the first live letter that did air on April 1st, on April Fools' Day, so we can't make the claim that this is an "out of season April Fools' joke". There's nothing to reference this exact scenario, and I wouldn't put it past him to aim for the long game of a joke to make us think that it is real when it's not. Also that the ears connected to the hair is a provable lie for the current heads, and a new head with toggle-able ears would have to be made in order to make this happen. Why discard the current head for that? There are too many factors that has me questioning that presentation. It's painfully obvious that it is bad, too obvious...

Don't get the wrong idea though, it's not that I'm excusing it, but it makes no sense to be mad about it now. Rather, I would use this time to think about what to do when 6.1 is released. What would I do if it was a joke and what would I do if was real? I do have an idea of what to do if it turns out to be real, but I'd want to think it through if I really want to do it, because it will be self-destructive on both sides. If it is a joke though, I will throw away those plans, and just laugh so hard that my neighbors will think that I've lost my mind.