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

[xxmiamorecadenza]

No need to validate my previous statement about twitter tourists.

Wanting to have varied hairstyles = twitter, apparently. Next you’ll call us woke.

[fundabortion]

hey yall! i appreciate this discussion so much, again SE letting down people of color at every opportunity. but stil... how do i get this hairstyle lol? any of u know where its at?

[Shezza]

You clearly lack the strength to say the real hurtful words you wanna say. So i'm just gonna say this, I hope you get your life together

Wanting to have varied hairstyles = twitter, apparently. Next you’ll call us woke.

It is true there will be many invidiuals, as I have said, who will claim to preach the gospel and not want to be thorough hypocrites. But if you then exhort them to declare publicly against the errors they think the people engage in, they will say the do not wish to place themselves in danger and must avoid and occasion for sin. Really? And when the poor ignorant people fall into a ditch, will they be made to sin when someone pulls them out?

[xxmiamorecadenza]

It is true there will be many invidiuals, as I have said, who will claim to preach the gospel and not want to be thorough hypocrites. But if you then exhort them to declare publicly against the errors they think the people engage in, they will say the do not wish to place themselves in danger and must avoid and occasion for sin. Really? And when the poor ignorant people fall into a ditch, will they be made to sin when someone pulls them out?

Huh

/10char

[Jokiro]

It is true there will be many invidiuals, as I have said, who will claim to preach the gospel and not want to be thorough hypocrites. But if you then exhort them to declare publicly against the errors they think the people engage in, they will say the do not wish to place themselves in danger and must avoid and occasion for sin. Really? And when the poor ignorant people fall into a ditch, will they be made to sin when someone pulls them out?

*individuals

[Akaza_Renn]

The hair looks better the way square made it rather than that concept art picture, I think twitter tourists are overblowing this issue out of proportions.

Have some respect towards the designer please??

If SE don't like it they have every right to not choose it as the contest winner not doing so and implement a complete perfunctory. That's disgusting.

[rblyell]

Anyone else notice the incredible amount of content that was updated betweeen the piliminary patch notes to the Patch Notes? (And noticed they updated both, shortly after news articles were made about them not appeasing to the African American community?)
Everyone should complain a lot more.
BTW, expect less information in piliminary patch notes in the future and the posted patch notes. (So they don't have to blow their loads again in updates to accomidate the complaints.)

[slingbees]

Anyone else notice the incredible amount of content that was updated betweeen the piliminary patch notes to the Patch Notes? (And noticed they updated both, shortly after news articles were made about them not appeasing to the African American community?)
Everyone should complain a lot more.
BTW, expect less information in piliminary patch notes in the future and the posted patch notes. (So they don't have to blow their loads again in updates to accomidate the complaints.)

A lot of content has been added (the usual amount) between the preliminary patch notes and the full patch notes, but nothing has been changed in the section about hairstyles, which is the part this thread is about.

[Gaddes]

Hello.

Thank you for all your feedback on the hairstyle that will be implemented in Patch 7.1. We would like to apologize for the major confusion we have caused.

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.

Therefore, the finished result is a hairstyle that has not been implemented as Natural Curls, but as a wavy bob hairstyle, which is called "Doing the Wave" in-game.

However, since we did use the winning entry as a reference in the development process, we included a statement to that effect in the patch notes. We are deeply sorry that this has resulted in a great deal of confusion and concern.

Although we were not able to make it happen this time, the development team will continue to strive to implement many more hairstyles in the future. As for Natural Curls, which was not implemented in Patch 7.1, we will persevere in our efforts to look for other ways to implement this hairstyle.

We appreciate your feedback and hope you continue to enjoy FFXIV!

Cue the clarion call for a modder who will replace this new hairstyle with a version that actually looks like the concept hair, using the same limitations...

[lolnah]

Looks limp and greasy. What a disappointment.