Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[CidHeiral]

Because we've seen them implement stuff and the reaction be poor, a lot of which could have been avoided if they had just stopped and gauged what the people interested in playing their content actually wanted.

Well to be fair I think it's much easier said than done to gauge what an extremely large and diverse community wants. Even if you pare it down to only the people interested in one type of content you're going to get many different opinions on what the right course of action is. Even in this very thread you have some players who want Hrothgals to be jacked and some who want them to be very feminine and everything in between.

I certainly don't envy the devs having to sort through all the wildly different feedback and come to a consensus, especially considering online feedback is only a small fraction of the player base to begin with. It's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. But I guess we'll see how things turned out in a few months. Personally I'm rooting for something like that Hrothgal art by Maho.

[Midareyukki]

Well to be fair I think it's much easier said than done to gauge what an extremely large and diverse community wants. Even if you pare it down to only the people interested in one type of content you're going to get many different opinions on what the right course of action is. Even in this very thread you have some players who want Hrothgals to be jacked and some who want them to be very feminine and everything in between.

I certainly don't envy the devs having to sort through all the wildly different feedback and come to a consensus, especially considering online feedback is only a small fraction of the player base to begin with. It's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. But I guess we'll see how things turned out in a few months. Personally I'm rooting for something like that Hrothgal art by Maho.

Yeah. I mean. I'm in the same camp, I much prefer Maho's style and I think that's what most people in this thread have stated their support for. Issue is, that's confirmation bias, so actually gauging the community is a coinflip.

[Iscah]

They're not being designed by committee.

Well, technically they are presumably being designed by committee, but an internal SE committee that isn't – and for copyright and artistic purposes, probably can't be – consulting with fans directly about their product.

They'll make the design that they think suits their game and matches the male counterpart model.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

We can avoid a Male Viera problem, is what I'm saying.

2 ways this is going to happen.
--Confirm they are happening
--Show us some vauge concept art like they have done in HW.

Good news, at least ONE of those happened :P
The other one though is the big one...knowing its happening is nice. But WE NEED TO SEE THEM....or at least give us some hope that they will come out correct instead of a Miqote 2.0

But besides being super scared/excited for FemHroths...I love art, so concept art for me is also just fun. I like to see progress shots and stuff from Game art and art commissions.

[Pip_Chick]

Personally I'm rooting for something like that Hrothgal art by Maho.

+1 for that! Maho's art is amazing and my hope for female Hrothgar (love the new RPR they drew!).

And this is mostly anecdotal, but from my research on the toppic around Twitter, the forums, a few in-game conversations and Reddit, a majority of people seem to like Maho's interpretation too. Or at least describe something similar.

But truth be told I do expect them to be a bit more on the fierce side and not as muscular as Roe females. The lore clearly states that Roes are the tallest and most rugged race on Hydelin.

[RukoBoshi]

+1 for that! Maho's art is amazing and my hope for female Hrothgar (love the new RPR they drew!).

Haven't seen that one, it looks really great !


Maho's art is so good that i really don't want anything too different from that. I know we probably won't have really big hairstyle like in their arts, but i hope we'll get more long racial hair than short one, considering how many of these are already in game.

[CidHeiral]

I would be 100% happy with something like that art.

[Midareyukki]

Here's hoping :x

idek what i'm more nervous about. Their designs, or their customization options.

They really don't need to inherit the poor state of the males.

[SturmChurro]

Haven't seen that one, it looks really great !


Maho's art is so good that i really don't want anything too different from that. I know we probably won't have really big hairstyle like in their arts, but i hope we'll get more long racial hair than short one, considering how many of these are already in game.

Wow! That art actually is really good. And long hairstyles are the best!

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

idek what i'm more nervous about. Their designs, or their customization options.

Designs.
A small amount of Custom Options out the gate would suck, but they can always improve (as much as we all would hate to wait) but what would hurt WAY more, is if their base design is crap. If they had a good list of options but look like crap, no sell. Who cares, they ruined it.
But If they had a small list of options but looked great, then Id be happy. Because the Males, despite their limited capacity, people have shown they are still more then capable of looking amazing.