6.2 Hrothgar Update

[Kelev]

This is a message to readers of the thread here:

I want to make sure my motivations are very, very clear here. I am not smart. I am not a software developer (I was in DevOps for many years, which is like software development for the self-loathing). I do not work for Square.

We recently lost a Hrothgar on Aether, a super nice guy. We had a memorial for him, and 75 gignormous cats, and a bunch of supporters showed up to tell him goodbye. It was one of the most moving things I've ever seen in a videogame.

I love the Hrothgar. I love the Aether community, we're a pretty tight-knit bunch, and even at 43 the sense of social belonging and camaraderie have helped me and a lot of others through a pandemic, nasty social climates, mental illness, substance abuse, and bone-crushing loneliness.

And while I will jump in to weigh in on what people are saying, and will as patiently as I can (I'm human too, and sick, and I get mad like everyone else) explain why it is that this problem isn't as simple as adopting modder code, or adding bones, or flipping flags, and I will explain passionately (but I hope politely) why it is that I'm this astonishingly angry, which isn't the hairstyles. Or hats. Or Queen Gunnhildr The Cop-Out.

It's that all of you, even the ones I don't know real well, in game or out are worth my time. And you are worth having the problem explained to you correctly. So that while I cannot fix your issue here, and that our "Community Representatives" who rarely, if ever weigh in, certainly never do twice. And even if no one at Square gave enough of a darn about you to even say "Yeah, we heard you?"

I did. And you guys did too.

So, please don't think for a minute me disagreeing with any one of you on a technical level is "Me > you." It's not that you're dumb for asking. Or putting your opinions up here.

And if I'm not communicating this in how thought-out and researched my posts are? Please let me say it explicitly here: You all deserve that respect and my time.

-Kelly

[Kelev]

Hrothgar aren't in beta. They were meant to be one and done: NO updates. It wouldn't matter how convoluted the process of their creation is, if they were never meant to get further updated.

I have a rebuttal:

No.



Please let me know if you have a reply to this. Love to hear it.

-Kelly

[Ayuhra]

Thank you to the people explaining server stuff better than I could as a lazy inarticulate weirdo. Limitations imposed by the server is one of those things that always makes sense in my head but I can never quite put in words.

I have severe ADHD though so my brain goes a million miles an hour, I lose patience with trying to put that into writing, and bleat out something that I hope approximates what I mean. I'm less bad about this in professional settings.

....At least I'm not explaining it out loud.

[SturmChurro]

I have a rebuttal:

No.



Please let me know if you have a reply to this. Love to hear it.

-Kelly

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Yoshida said he never said that. There should be a quote of it around here somewhere. Saying that they weren't going to get any hairs.

[Vahlnir]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Yoshida said he never said that. There should be a quote of it around here somewhere.

Aka "This makes us look bad so I'm going to feign ignorance!"

[SturmChurro]

Aka "This makes us look bad so I'm going to feign ignorance!"

I wonder if he honestly does ever remember saying that? Hrothgars probably aren't really thought about too often.

[Vahlnir]

I wonder if he honestly does ever remember ever saying that? Hrothgars probably aren't really thought about too often.

He's an intelligent man. If he doesn't remember, that honestly doesn't make the situation any better. Quite the opposite really if they forget about them all the time.

[Kelev]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Yoshida said he never said that. There should be a quote of it around here somewhere. Saying that they weren't going to get any hairs.

Here's the image from our community rep:



And here's the link I got it from:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-Thread/page4

That's from a community rep on this forum, so the official translation.

Please let me know if you have a reply. I'd love to hear it.

[VirusOnline]

...they forget about them all the time.

but that blu mage weapon after many years is totally gonna be awesome

[SturmChurro]

Here's the image from our community rep:



And here's the link I got it from:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...e-Thread/page4

That's from a community rep on this forum, so the official translation.

Please let me know if you have a reply. I'd love to hear it.

Yeah, and I'm telling you there is a quote, it should be in the big hrothgar thread, of Yoshida saying he said they weren't going to get any hairs, and I am also pretty sure they might have said what you are showing was a "mistranslation" - at least that's what people were saying.