New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Denji]

I don't think it's specifically "laziness", but simply the fact that they don't give a damn about Hrothgar players' wishes (and Viera likewise).
They rather spend 80% of their budget and dev time on creating the MSQ with fancy, extensive animations of Y'shtola having a book fall on her head or G'Raha's ears wiggling every other cutscene, than to take 2 weeks of dev time and focus 100% on fixing the mess that are Viera who can't wear hats & helmets + are lacking most unlockable hairstyles (both things that modders could do in a matter of hours; and keep in mind that those modders work alone, not with a big team) and Hrothgar with their garbo hairstyles, the lacking ears and the absolutely ridiculous decision that they cannot change their hairstyle at the aesthetician, but their unnecessary fur pattern you never see whenever you wear armor anyway can be changed there (it should be vice versa).

"Haha we made another msq joke where we poke fun about the fact that the player character only ever smiles and nods! What's a Hrothgar?"

[Arkfrost]

"Haha we made another msq joke where we poke fun about the fact that the player character only ever smiles and nods! What's a Hrothgar?"

Exactly this. And this is pretty sad.

But seriously, if modders can do this stuff way better than they could couldn't they have asked/compensated the modders for their work and just implemented the mod into the base game?

It's not like doing that is unheard of.

Excuse me??? Of course this is absolutely unheard of for a Japanese company! A modder simply cannot do what a multi billion dollar company's dev team can do. If they accepted the work modders have already done, that would mean that they ADMIT that modders can do stuff better than them. Absolutely unthinkable! The devs also have honor and pride in their craft! ... What do you say? ... Excessive pride was the reason why 1.0 failed? What?? No, that can't be true.

[Lauront]

"Haha we made another msq joke where we poke fun about the fact that the player character only ever smiles and nods! What's a Hrothgar?"

There were some scenes today in the MSQ where I'd be embarrassed if anyone saw me play it because of how childish they felt. It's clear where their budget is going and the direction they want to take things in.

[Haruka_R]

"Haha we made another msq joke where we poke fun about the fact that the player character only ever smiles and nods! What's a Hrothgar?"

Nice to see I'm not the only one annoyed by that. Having said that, I wish you never said that.