New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Zorixas]

At first, my reaction was the same as everyone else (confusion and outrage), but I decided to look a little deeper into it and found some things to be a bit odd. Right now this is a compilation of all the information that was found:

1. It was the 70th Producer Live Letter (PLL) to be broadcasted, but it was the first of the PLLs to be broadcasted on April 1st. There are no other examples of what they would do in this particular scenario.



2. What they showed were printouts of Hrothgar with different hairstyles rather than a demonstration of how the hairstyles would look in the game. I point this out because it's not just an aesthetic implementation but also a technical one, as Hrothgars don't even have a menu for hairstyles, and it would have made logical sense to show that menu addition as well.



3. All of the hairstyles that were presented in the printouts were most definitely not presentable first choices.



4. The Hrothgar ears are part of the head more so than the hair. In order for what was seen to exist, they would of had to model new heads with ears that would be toggled off visibly when changing to those hairstyles. If there was a decision made that would be called lazy, then it would be to just add the hairstyles menu, slap on the Roegadyn hairstyles and call it a day, which would have actually been far more presentable. If what they showed was actually in game presentations, then it would have taken more time and effort to do it. This has me speculating of the probability that those printouts were photoshopped or purposefully forged in some way.







All of this is tempering my own rage, as nothing about this presentation is making any sense. If there can be teleporting underground bots, then how difficult would it be to make hair and hat mods than can be seen by other players? A personal opinion that I have as well is that usually when something is presented that can be perceived as controversial, then there would be an apology in some form or another. However, there was neither an apology within the live letter, nor after it. All of this has me, at the very least, suspicious of the whole thing. So I will wait until the release of 6.1 before taking any action. If this turns out to be real, then my actions will most likely be rage-induced and reflectively regrettable.

And here I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, when in reality, It was much worse than even my worst case scenario... This beyond disappointing. Not only were what they showed all that they had, they didn't even bother putting in all of the Hrothgar hairstyles. There was one that I wanted to try and it's not even an option! And here I was thinking of just letting it go because that retaliation would be ridiculous. I'm starting to think that they're just leaving Hrothgar be so that modders have something to work with. Now I know what I must do next...

[Naeff]

To get some pressure off and in order to add my voice to the chorus, to help highlight the issue, I would like to say a few things aswell.

My Thanks goes to the developers for the new possibilities to further costumize my Hrothgar. I can now use four different Hairstyles without having to pay extra and additional four for each of the four available faces in the character creation screen or at a later date if I pay extra.

If I was willing to sacrifize the ears I could use the four newly added designs AFTER I unlocked them though ingame activity or I assume more money spent.
Concerning the new 'hairstyle' designs I would like to add that their quality and the choices made for this specific race are not to my liking, so far that I am condensing the description into the following:
I am not getting paid enough to use them on my character, that I have grown quite attached to. I will not count these newly added designs as options.

Other Races start the character creation with about 50 different hairstyles, according to my game data. Hrothgar can choose between four per face. As stated before there are four faces two choose from at the creation screen and without paying extra at a later date Hrothgar are stuck with the choosen face and thus four hairstyles overall. Add the fact that most Hats cannot be used by this race.

The quality of currently available hairstyles for Hrothgar do not make up for the reduced quantity in comparison with hairstyles other races can use plus hats.

[Retrisar]

why they couldn't add this one as a haircut... sometimes no hair's i better than those abominations

[Soge01]

why they couldn't add this one as a haircut... sometimes no hair's i better than those abominations

I really want this for my Hrothgar, too! :O

[Larirawiel]

*snrk*

WTF?! This will give me nightmares tonight.



Cheers

[Akimori]

I just made this joke over Discord, but maybe Voldemort is hiding back there?

Its just downright awful aaaa. Also, that picture is cursed

[juicybug]

Yeah, seems like they're doing them in order when looking at the Data. (I'm seeing pics of those surfer dreads/ twin tails/ a swoopy style/ the Rainmaker)

Seems like I gotta eat my hat, we apparently did get a new hairstyle this patch ...

Lyse hair spotted for Viera. Seems to be for Lyse's set as a Mog station buy

Oh did they now?

Bc I saw that toddler side ponytail, nothing about Lyse epic ponytail.
So, this one?

[juicybug]

Oh my God.

I literally just broke out laughing look at that. Still laughing as I am typing this. Why would anyone approve this?

Erhm.... they only asked if they could rather stopping and asking if they should.

[Karowolus]

*snrk*

Wait. That is refitted... WHO APPROVED THIS?!

[Joeking]

*snrk*

So bad, thats its good. Perfection.