New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Ultaniku]

I can neither yay or nay the hair choices as I gave up being a Hrothgar a while back. I just don’t understand why they would ever think doing the styles without the ears is okay. That’s….insane and makes them look rather silly. The ears being “hidden” in the hair is such a cop out.

[vartrashadowbane]

Whose ears is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch him frown. I cry! It's a Hrothgar Blow

He gives his ears a shake,
And sobs until the tears make.
The only other sound's that break,
the distant sounds of viera awake(What about us they cry? Hatless and alone)

The cats arent alone, their sadness deep,
But they have promises to keep,
Until then they shall not sleep.
The bunnies join them in their weep

They rise from their bitter beds,
With thoughts of sadness in their heads,
their idols and gods they must make dead.
Facing the day with never ending dread.

(Our ears! the cry echoes on the wind, our hats! But no one hears them)

[juicybug]

theyre so bad
but whats worse is i doubt anyone had a positive reaction other than a good laugh during the LL.

seriously no ears? then dont give them these garbo hairs if you cant give quality.

[Rathmir]

As for Hrothgar, the only reason I don't dismiss the idea that Hrothgar will be able to use other head's hairstyles is because of the ear comment. Each Hrothgar head has different sized and shaped ears and their hair is designed to play well with that head's ears. [...]

G'Morning... ._.

if they went that way, it would be some kind of special stupid regarding true hroth hair styles, and maybe prevent those forever. Even with their original options, the hair doesn't play around with the ears. At the moment, most (all?) styles start out of the ears, not the head. So the real issue more the front.



So with every true style, they'd have to invent the wheel 4 times, and additionally have to write a check like "When face4 is chosen, hair styles 1-24 aren't available", because of the other's ears not fitting the face.
And that would lower to chances to real hrothgar styles close to zero, because that's an effort you'd only do once, maybe twice. Instead it turns into a guarantee for copy&paste-work, and tons of wigs...
Should... open... a shop for those?

But as you said. Time will tell soon enough, and speculating about still unlaid eggs might be fun - but here obviously not too much with heated minds.

[Doavarr]

Really hoping SE sees how much negative feedback these are getting. It's kind of unacceptable how bad these are.

[yamaoyaji]

Hello everyone.
I am not sure what exactly is meant by the Japanese patch note notation.
Do you need cash or will the hairdresser cut it for you?
If they cut it for me, I would decline.
I think we should wait for the 6.1 patch notes to be read out.

[yamaoyaji]

I'd like to ask the Japanese people why we are so disappointed or angry with them.
I referred to your comments here to explain.

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-Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LIII Digest (08/29/2019)
(01:51:49)
Q: I used fantasia to change to Viera and I'm enjoying it. As they're a special race and it may not be possible, but feel like the number of hairstyles available for Viera and Hrothgar is quite limited. Do you have plans to add more in the future?
A: We certainly plan on adding more, so please wait for future patches. However, it will still be race-specific, so there won’t be as many selections when compared to other races.

-Buffed German Interview with Yoshi P. (05/28/2021)
The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these [hat] pieces, if we want to follow our specifications. Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback. There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end. We have regular meetings, I was in one just yesterday and we're planning on having another one this upcoming week, where we discuss how to lower development costs or which options we have to add more hairstyles. The players can be assured that we are aware and are thinking about this, but I am asking for a bit more patience and that you wait a little longer. I hope to have some good news soon.

-Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXV (07/09/2021)
（sorry. I could not confirm about this comment.）
As seen today, you saw additional hairstyles on Viera so yes there will be. In the future, in order to ensure we can easily add more hairstyles to both Viera and Hrothgars, we are actually changing the specification on them right now, so it's underway. It will take sometime for that to happen so please be patient.

-Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVII (11/19/2021)
(3:40:12)
New hairstyles for Viera will be added in Patch 6.0.
We’d previously announced we’d be unable to add more hairstyles for Viera and Hrothgar as they are designed in a special way compared to other races. However, ...

-Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXVIII (03/03/2022)
(4:14:40)
People are saying “are you really gonna [add Female Hrothgar]?” and uhh, if I say I’m going to do something, I will do it. I mean, I’ve said I’ll do it…
...

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It helped me a lot to quote Mr. Yoshida's statement. Thanks.
In doing so, I checked the PLL video listed here.
If you would like to hear it in the flesh through an interpreter, please refer to the timeline.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

The most heartbreaking moment when I saw these 'new' hairstyles in the Live Letter was their expressions when Yoshi-P brought up the picture to the camera for us to see. It could be just me, but even they knew how ridiculous it looked, which is really tragic.

[Retrisar]

If they didn't have a problem to release those hairs like that , can imagine how's everything gonna looks after that . Half finished unwanted content incoming .
I've rly liked hrothgar since he didn't looks like every other race in this game (Human's - small , horny, half cat's humans ) , but price tag for harcuts , limitations with headgears and now this just want me to leave this game . After 6.1 just give up hope that its gonna be better .

[Cidel]

Yoshi looking at the community reaction to earless Hroth...

The community's reaction to being showed the 'new hairstyles'...