I'm another who registered to the forums just to reply to this thread.

Even when I was scrolling through the patch notes this morning, my first thought when I saw that hairstyle was "that looks unfinished" ... and then I learned what hairstyle it was supposed to be. This doesn't even deserve a "you tried" sticker. You didn't even try.

It was refreshing to see a curly hairstyle amongst the winners. It was nice to see just how many people were excited and happy that a style that they were excited for - represented by, even - was among the chosen.

I would almost excuse it if it was meant to be a separate hairstyle entirely. If it was released alongside the actual hair that was submitted to begin with, but it's painfully clear that was not meant to be the case.

To echo what a lot of people have said, for all of the work and hype the team put out for diversity in DT (and even the continued act of removing genderlocks from some outfits), this really is a slap in the face for POC. They were excited to finally have a curly textured hair, and then they got a barely textured spare mop head.

Please, please go back and redo this. Don't be "inspired by," just make the hair it was meant to be. You've done curls before. Go back and put some actual care and effort into a hairstyle that would genuinely mean a lot to a large portion of your playerbase. It's disheartening to see the reactions of the artist and the players that were excited for this. Please do better.