New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[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.