6.2 Hrothgar Update

[Midareyukki]

They don't hate Hrothgar.

I feel like this is important to reiterate. I don't think anyone genuinely thinks they hate us. At best they're indifferent, as they would be to any other race.

It's clear they have other priorities. It's just that said priorities have led them down an unfortunate path. Not just in making the game, but also in how they dealt with the community.

It's clear that their design and system are either outdated, or simply in need of an upgrade. And the lack of an upgrade has finally caught up to them.

Which is what people in general want them to consider and plan better for. Because we've reached a point where their content for us Hrothgar players hasn't been on the same level of quality as the other races, for whichever reason. And it has to be met somehow.

We're in for a racial update soon. But they decided to do so on the Legacy Races first. Which isn't fair when, at their base level, these races (whom you need to pay an expansion for) aren't up to par with those other ones. Meaning if anything is going to get fixed eventually, it will only come much later.

So really. If anyone thinks they hate Hrothgar: they don't.
But just because they don't hate us, it doesn't absolve them from having handled the race in unfortunate ways. And that needs to be addressed and acknowledged.

Because as Kelev said,

They knew it was wrong and released it anyway. Fix it.

They were the ones who wanted Hrothgar in the game, Yoshida said so himself. It wouldn't make sense for them to just randomly hate it. They agreed and approved of this, it didn't come from fan outcry.

They did know what they ended up doing was wrong. They knew it wasn't up to par, and know that it hasn't been for years. They know they'll have to fix it eventually, but haven't done anything toward that. The release of 6.1's hairstyles shows something. It can either show they're not planning on doing it anytime soon, or it shows that they are but not now. Or it can show something else entirely, but it's still the same message: it's not the proper step to take. Because it doesn't show that they acknowledge that the race is wanting. That the fans have been supporting it and asking for quality for years now.

I've said this on the Feedback Thread before, and I'll say it again. You do have people wanting changes and fixes as immediately as possible, and you have some people who are willing to wait as long as that work is actually going to be done. And not "Wait for 6.1 for updates to get something meme-worthy and horrid". But they can't keep making this game with fans aware of what's going on without anything changing. It's unfair for us, and it will only grow even more unfair for those in the making of this game that have no say in what sort of quality they can produce. Because they'll be wanting to do better, but "doing better" would imply changing so much they'd need approval of something at that scale.