It's been 5 years how about hats for Viera and Hrothgar

[Hallarem]

Something something technical debt, something something lazy dev team, something something priorities, something something nft's and remakes stealing FFXIV's budget

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Please, the devs need to rest they do so much already and we already have so much, dont act so entitled ((( please there are already signs of them doing things, 5 years? Huh? Naaah. The devs can't replicate what modders do, just play some other games while waiting, Yoshi P said so.

[Pip_Chick]

Just boycott this unfinished race. If you meet new people, steer them away from it by just telling them the truth: you can't wear hats on this race. Show them the minimal hairstyles available. Warn them that they'll be buying cash shop sets that they can't even use completely. Use your DT fanta to swap to a race that's actually finished.

I agree with you on everything, but this point. And not just because I have been waiting for Hrothgals to be available and I finally got my perfect girl, which I will never fanta off.
But also a point that has been brought up before, and has a lot of merit:
If we all jump off the races, they will see them as failures and never update them because "no one plays them, so why bother?". We should keep playing them, but make our voices heard, with the full intent of not buying anything we cannot use. Don't support them any more than the bare minimum.
If we all jump ship, do you think they would bother to save the sinking ship, or will they leave it to be overturned by the waves? While the ships that were already good, get to have new hands on board?

I don't believe them in the slightest when they say ANYTHING without proof. I have said before and will say it again Proof or it didn't happen.
I am happy with what I got and will wait for the hairstyles, which they have continued to give to us. (now with the new girl, I will have to start from day 1, hope for no earless fiasco...). As for the hats, maybe in a new MMO, but here, no chance.

XIV has no budget. This is a cash cow for Square Enix. They will not invest any more than is necessary for maintenance. Anything else they have to plead with the higher-ups for it. They can't do it, not because of the imaginary restrictions in-game, as you said a guy in his basement made it work (good job to him). The only restrictions there are is the budget. No one works for free, the circlets we got were from a few devs who did work for free, in their spare time. They cannot do it for free on the company time, they have to do it at home and with no monetary reward for their work.
So no, I do not believe this will be fixed unless Square stops pulling money from their only good game and putting it in half-done games that will be cancelled halfway through. Unless they do that, then don't expect it unless a new MMO gets in the works. And by their track record, it will not have these races anyway, it will be the same Midlander, Elezen, Lalafell, Miquo'te and Roegadine, but with different names.

[Maltothoris]

What was the recent interview for this time cause we keep having those. The most recent one about that I could find was this one https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscus..._from_yoshi_p/

[PaulusHamsteru]

Why can't they let us, viera, wear hats like the rest and give us the option to hide our ears? I'll take that anyday over not being able to wear 90% of stuff that I want.

[Ardeth]

The amount of white knighting the issue gets is disgusting.

Just be real with it. SquareEnix is putting .01% effort into it. Because they incompetently released broken races. I don't care if it was the players who wanted them. That is a moronic excuse. "Sorry, dear Jimmy ruined his dinner by eating sleaves of cookies. I could've stopped him, but it's what he wanted."

Just be real with it. SquareEnix is a multi-billion (with a b) dollar company, and some modder can do it in days. They're a joke of a company at this point. If it wasn't for Yoshi P seeming like such a cool guy, I would've abandoned this clown shoes game years ago.

[Daralii]

Why can't they let us, viera, wear hats like the rest and give us the option to hide our ears? I'll take that anyday over not being able to wear 90% of stuff that I want.

The 89 RPR set has a hat and they're fine with viera ears clipping through that, but they won't permit it with every other hat because... reasons.

[ronibosch]

The 89 RPR set has a hat and they're fine with viera ears clipping through that, but they won't permit it with every other hat because... reasons.

I heard it's because they didn't make "hat versions" of the racial hair for Viera and Hrothgar, so headgear that doesn't show hair can be worn by Viera and Hrothgar.
...Only, that's inconsistent too, because I've come across headgear that doesn't show hair be unavailable for V/H as well.

From what I can tell, all the dev team needs to do is make hat compatible versions of the Viera and Hrothgar hairs, but they seem unwilling to do it. I mean, look at how they never lifted the hair restrictions on Hrothgar and even made it a problem for female Hrothgar.

[PaulusHamsteru]

The 89 RPR set has a hat and they're fine with viera ears clipping through that, but they won't permit it with every other hat because... reasons.

I know, but tbh, I'm not a fan. I'd rather just have the option to hide my ears than let them clip like that.

[TheGrimace]

I think they should have new hats! /FG

[Kanehon]

I heard it's because they didn't make "hat versions" of the racial hair for Viera and Hrothgar, so headgear that doesn't show hair can be worn by Viera and Hrothgar.
...Only, that's inconsistent too, because I've come across headgear that doesn't show hair be unavailable for V/H as well.

From what I can tell, all the dev team needs to do is make hat compatible versions of the Viera and Hrothgar hairs, but they seem unwilling to do it. I mean, look at how they never lifted the hair restrictions on Hrothgar and even made it a problem for female Hrothgar.

That's pretty much it. I've just given up believing they are working on it at all, sadly. Too long with only "look forward to it" and then Dawntrail graphics update not having so much as a Word of it crushed any hope I had, to be honest