New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Denji]

Yes, a few words that would clear major points up, would already help. Especially about the Fantasia. Currently people are outraged not just because of the new hairstyles, but also about the things that they don't know. And I'd personally rather like to know what I exactly I am angry or worried about, apart from "ears are important, gimme ears" of course. I asked on Twitter below the tweet about the patch notes for a bit of clarification. But I doubt I'll get a reply, not because the social media team is mean but because it's likely they also don't know. They are not the devs after all, and I suppose it is already week-end in Japan.

I'm afraid we just have to wait and see how it will be on Tuesday, and what the devs might say in the patch note reading. I just hope people don't start outright harassing the devs - or the mods and social media team for that matter. I understand the frustration (as I've stated plenty in this thread), but bullying them won't change anything this close to patch release.

The only reason for the vagueness that I can think of is that they're not sure how much work they can do without delaying the rest of the patch, so they're keeping everyone in the dark until last minute when they can take what they have and pawn it off on us with the promise that they'll fix it later.

[aveyond-dreams]

Apparently Zepla has made a new video regarding the situation. Good to see even the most beloved of SE's streamers taking a stand against what is quite frankly a ridiculous situation that has gone on for far longer than it should have.

[Pip_Chick]

Apparently Zepla has made a new video regarding the situation. Good to see even the most beloved of SE's streamers taking a stand against what is quite frankly a ridiculous situation that has gone on for far longer than it should have.

This does put a smile on my face

[Minali]

Apparently Zepla has made a new video regarding the situation. Good to see even the most beloved of SE's streamers taking a stand against what is quite frankly a ridiculous situation that has gone on for far longer than it should have.

That's cool. Checked her channel a few times for updates in general, but I also didn't expect her to do something about this now. (She really has a lot of other things on her plate after fleeing her country and learning about what happened to her old suburb since then.) It's awesome that she still takes time for addressing this, with all the other changed in patch 6.1 many other streamers have their focus on other content. (Which I don't blame them for, everyone has their own priorities.)

[Denji]

Apparently Zepla has made a new video regarding the situation. Good to see even the most beloved of SE's streamers taking a stand against what is quite frankly a ridiculous situation that has gone on for far longer than it should have.

Hopefully that at least gets more people talking about it.

[CoeurlBeachBriefs]

Apparently Zepla has made a new video regarding the situation. Good to see even the most beloved of SE's streamers taking a stand against what is quite frankly a ridiculous situation that has gone on for far longer than it should have.

Good stuff. Never watched any XIV Content Creators but if they're being vocal about this too, I'm glad. Most MMO communities would say "If you don't like it, play another game" and excusing how things are. I love YoshiP and the dev team, genuinely they are all great, but I'm just... happy that this community will actually voice when things aren't okay. Not out of entitlement, but because we pay monthly for this game and deserve a say, I think.

[SacraAnima]

was funny for sure, I was hoping that she (or another highly viewed content creator) would make an educated and more serious video about this situation, with live letter receipts and summarized representation of how the community is feeling about it. BUT it's still exposure and she certainly called the quality out. So that's still good

[Denji]

was funny for sure, I was hoping that she (or another highly viewed content creator) would make an educated and more serious video about this situation, with live letter receipts and summarized representation of how the community is feeling about it. BUT it's still exposure and she certainly called the quality out. So that's still good

well it isn't an actual video made by her, it's just a clip from her stream. aka unscripted and probably closer to how she feels than anything planned out would be.

[Karowolus]

well it isn't an actual video made by her, it's just a clip from her stream. aka unscripted and probably closer to how she feels than anything planned out would be.

The other thing is. Yoshida apparently watches her streams.

[Rathmir]

Do you know it or do you ... guess it? To know it, you should make some benchmarks first. One million Bnuuys vs. one million Hrothgar? Which race will get more FPS?

There is a slogan in the software development industry: don't guess, measure!

Asked around for dropping some tests, and the results are... tad baffling.

Having a full vanilla Viera world has the same impact as higher poly + 4k textures Hroth.
Both vanilla gives 5-10% more fps with Hroth only.

No true measures set, but even those samples tell a bit about stuff, maybe. So let the results sink a bit.

I personally wont harass anyone, It wont get you anywhere. While a reply from a dev would be nice, at this point, with the hairstyles and ear chopping already in the games code-what is it going to get us?

It's a piece of meta data, and actually other races have a "Show<insert race here>Ear" (yes, all other races, too) flag, while Hroth and Viera have a "Show<Race>Hat" - Viera with the additon to (not) show ears as well already. So maybe they're already working for a Viera like solution. But my guess stays like stated a text before: Squeenix seems more likely to chop our ears after all.
Additionally not only with helmets, but also hair styles, with bad luck. It's a quick and easy solution to deliver anything, literally.


With all that extremely vague information set so close to release date, I let do the +20% insecurity do their work. And just wait for the final results before an unnecessary war will be started (or more likely joined) by my side. No need to yourselves ruin the weekend, yes-no?