New hrothgar hairstyles are really bad.

[SturmChurro]

Players want it. Players have been wanting it for years now. He's got nothing to be annoyed about, Hrothgar have done absolutely nothing to incur such a response from him. We're not the Samurai in the DPS Roles tab. Nor are we the people who spammed :crab emoji: MALE VIERA :crab emoji: every darn stream. And the snow beanie actually does look fine with ears if the modded version's anything to go by.

I mean, of course, but I'm saying he actually acknowledged player concerns. Back in ShB Viera/hrothgar were pretty much just not talked about... at all. I remember being there with many others on here, thinking if this next update would finally be the one we'd get our new hairs, or if we'd even get an update on the situation. It wasn't really until the end of ShB that either were even really talked about again.

I'd say, if he is annoyed, it has to do with the fact that their intention was most likely to leave these races as is after launch (minimal) support, and that's the only reason they were approved and made in the first place. It likely was never in the plans to spend too much time or resources on them.

Honestly, if they had kept the ears with the recently added hairstyles, I would have still been a little disappointed, though largely because none of them are really...for me, I guess. But I would have viewed it as a start. What we got was not a start. It was an abomination, and it was pretty insulting to boot.

In a weird way this might have been a blessing in disquise. If these hairs would have come out in an acceptable enough quality, probably only needed to have their ears still visible, these hairs might have been all hrothgar would get.. Granted, that really depends on how long it will actually take for them to do custom hairs for hrothgar, and what these custom hairs would be.

I mean, I don't want to single out Yoshi P in the matter, but him and/or the other devs are years too late to claim "they didn't know" when hairstyles like Windcaller has been requested since its addition to be usable for Hrothgars (and is likely one of the most popular mods), and the Bozja npc made it seem like the "new" hairstyles to come would just be switched versions of the 8 they already had, or at least 1 of them for each head. We can now switch between the hairstyles that share the same face so really, that would've sufficed.

Let's be honest, even if they hadn't chop off Hroth ears to fit, out of ALL the default and acquirable(?) hairstyles, did they genuinely believe people wanted pretty boy/emo/obviously female styles? for the most "macho" race next to Roegadyn? of course not, because those hairstyles weren't even selected for Hrothgars, they literally just copy-pasted the ones Viera got, because even when their actual male counterparts now exist, Viera and Hrothgar are still seemingly considered a single race - or rather, Hrothgar are now Viera's third wheel.

I'm honestly not sure if a lot of player feedback actually reaches Yoshida, however I question him thinking this is what players would want.. it seems quite unlikely, and that's if they came out with ears. In the state they were launching in, I wonder if he truly thought people would accept them, because anyone could look at those hairs and see how bad they looked.