New 7.1 hairstyle looks nothing like the winning hairstyle from the 2023 contest

[Doragan]

For this patch, we started work to implement "Natural Curls" from the winning entries of the Hairstyle Design Contest, based on the idea of adding not only straight hair but also a variety of other hairstyles.

However, as the development work progressed, the light, delicate, and voluminous curls required for Natural Curls could not be implemented perfectly, despite implementation of the recent graphical update in FFXIV, due to limitations such as the polygon count.

Then, this has to change. Other competitors like World of Warcraft and Guild Wars II have figured it out already, and these have plenty of curly hairstyles. Same for Elden Ring, but that isn't a MMO, and poly count wouldn't so much of a concern.

Please do better, and sooner than in two years. Stumbling time is over.

Thank you.