New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[Arkfrost]

Because unless it generates bad press (see: not being able to marry the same gender) the non-JP forums are largely ignored.

There are several examples in this thread of mods and such saying they'll "pass it along" and we never hear of it again, including stuff from 7-8 years ago.

The sad truth is that this is a Japanese game and outside of trying to nickle and dime you with the cash shop, they generally don't care.

Reminder that NA/EU/Non-JP players are second class citizens.

That's a common misconception. While people here in the west always claim the devs only really listen to the JP community, the JP community says exactly the same about us. It's a common meme in the JP official forums here, that "Yoshida never listen to the demands of JP and only do what the western audience wants".

また仮にJPプレイヤーが満足していたとしても、EU等の他フォーラムのフィードバックを無視するなどということはあり得ないので、その点はご安心ください。

むしろJPプレイヤーの中からは、吉田Pは海外の声ばかり聞いていると言う声も聞かれます。

"And even if JP players are satisfied, there is no way they would ignore feedback from other forums such as EU.
In fact, some JP players say that YoshidaP only listens to overseas feedback."

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Yep, this quote is the elephant in the room. It seems a bit specific to be a horribly mistranslated? How could they have told us that we weren't originally going to get any hairs, when there is that literal quote right there.

No, it is not mistranslated. As you can see, that quote was from the Liveletter LIII. You can go on the forums, right here, and look up the official translation:

(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.

Meanwhile, little fun fact, I just noticed yet another lie from Yoshida:

(02:10:17)
Q: Are there plans to make it easier to tell if an attack is physical or magical?
A: I believe we answered this before, but we haven’t implemented this yet as it would delay the patches. We often make last minute balance changes, and we might have to change a physical/magical attack right before release. If we were to display this information, we’d have to change the UI whenever we make such an adjustment, which would delay the patch release. Please understand that we are not intentionally trying to hide information.

Well that is a fkn lie. There's a Dalamud plugin called "DamageInfo" that literally lets you choose which color magical damage has, which color physical damage has, which color unspecified damage has, and none of that has to changed on a per-attack basis on the UI. You can simply set it so ALL magical damage has a specific colour, just based on the fact that it's magic damage. So "we'd have to change the UI whenever we make such an adjustment" ist just pure bullshit.