Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
this will never ever, not until FFXXVIII MMO (september 2035 release date) happen. The amount of resources it takes to do hair physics is fine for a AAA offline game, because its all contained on a disk, but for an MMO, any player that looks at you needs to be sent that data from the server, which for something like that could cause fires at the SE server plant with the current state it is in.
Well the easiest solution is to have conditional checking on head/body pieces is that if you have a hairstyle that clips with it. Swap the hair to be put into a compact version like a ponytail, or a bun. This would be a simple model change.

The reason they won't do this one is because it will mean more data per character, and means they would have to model different hairstyles to work with different armour.