VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Midareyukki]

I will never believe that they locked Hrothgar editing behind Fantasia to incentivize the cash shop. It makes no sense. You know the saying "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity?" (or ignorance or incompetence.) That's the devs regarding Hrothgar. There are dozens of more intelligent business choices they could make to incentivize cash shop purchases than targeting what I'm sure was expected to be a low population race for a 10$ charge every now and then. Your average Miqo gposer chilling in Limsa has probably spent more on Fantasias in a month than many Hrothgar players have spent ever.

I don't know if that was really the intention, I think it was rather that they simply wanted these to be limited races, and miscalculated the community reaction. Rather, what they built would allow them to maintain their patch schedule, as was said. However, considering how long it took to "fix", I think the fantasias were a fairly nice bonus.

It very likely wasn't the intention. This race is so niche it in no way would make any impact.
It was, however, pretty shortsighted of them.
And the fact that even after 3 years they still go "We weren't expecting this reaction" just proves how backwards their logic was altogether.

The wording seems telling about what their plans were from the start, if there was any ambiguity in the original announcement. Headgear would not display full stop; glasses and such would not display at first. Then the character team found the time to urgently adjust glasses so they would display at first.

There was never a promise that everything would work eventually.


Also, NPCs with unique face/hair combinations tells us nothing more than that the devs have extra control over these things. It's no different to Auri characters such as Yugiri and Mide having horns that don't match their face. Players can't control that, but devs can do a lot with adding custom faces or transferring them from other models.

And thank god people spoke up about it, because that decision was just as backwards as the first iteration of Diadem.

Because it did at least get them to reconsider their stance, both on the races being more complete + on the genders being added.

Though I'm really not convinced they did those headgear things out of the kindness of their hearts. Discounting the time they had building up to Male Viera, they still could have added in more headgear in the patches following release.

Yet they didn't.

Not even events.

So them going "oh, it was just at first" really is moot.