Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
Seriously? I don't think people are understanding my intent right now - other than Vahlnir. I was being sarcastic and joking around. It's why I used emojis. I fully acknowledge that past quote, but what I am saying is Yoshida has seemingly forgotten or outright said the complete opposite this year. If you really want me to search through the big hrothgar thread to pull up newer quotes of him where he said he said they weren't going to receive any hair previously, or the discussions around that original quote being a supposed "mistranslation" I will.

The only thing I was saying was that they were clearly not intended to be updated upon their creation, regardless of what was said back then. They were in their 'complete' state, and that's why they could design them the way they did. Yoshida might have said they would receive hair, but their design, and original intent clearly doesn't line up with that statement, in my opinion. I have remained firm for years, that hrothgar are "finished" - to SE. Them being in "beta" implies that they considered them unfinished.
The problem with that line of thinking is they clearly didn't. Or some programmers didn't because they had to break into SE hq in the middle of the night to allow hrothgar and viera ANY headgear whatsoever rather than just accept Yoships original intent of purposefully screwing those races out of an entire gear slot.
It also makes no sense. How could any developer just sit there and be like "Oh hey fans, we made a new race for our game! Also the new race can never do anything besides what you do at Character Creation, isn't that neat!" and expect fans to just be fine with that? If a hrothgar pops a modern aesthete it still says "New hair options available", not "Hey numbnuts, go buy a fantasia and play a race we actually deign to care about".
So developer intent doesn't matter, not when you and me and he and she and they and GOD KNOW nobody would ever want to play a race that they can't do anything with to set it apart from ingame premade npcs. Thats mind-bogglingly stupid and if that were in fact the intent they should've made Hrothgar a beast race a la Vanu Vanu or Lupin wherein none of them look at all different from one another instead of a player race. But its a player race, and players like options, and they know that. They just decided hrothgar and their players are not WORTH creating options for.