Request to unlock Hempen set styles

[Nandrolone]

After reading this thread more, it seems like a Community Representative has said they have forwarded it to the dev team, and that they are “considering” adding it to a future update. That statement bothers me, because it’s been a little over 2 years since that post, and we haven’t had any updates on the matter from Yoshida or the dev team.

Hello again, Eorzeans.

We appreciate your continued feedback on the subject of unlocking the variances in appearance of the Hempen set across all races.

It looks like an overwhelming majority of you are very interested in this! As such, we have forwarded this feedback to the development team. In response, they would like to let you know that they are considering this for a future update!

I was also reading the previous Live Letter “Ask a Question” threads, and I saw a few people mention Hempen outfits being accessible to all races, and why Viera/Hrothgar are somehow the only exceptions. It seems it wasn’t brought up in the recent Live Letters either. So, that tells me they are dodging the question for some reason. What I want to know is this. Is the reason the Hempen design accessibility questions regarding Viera/Hrothgar are constantly ignored, because Square Enix is planning on surprising us with good news soon? Or because they do not have an answer to this hypocrisy, and choose to not respond whenever it is brought up. It’s just, “racial identity” doesn’t hold up anymore at this point.

Whatever the reason is, fine with me. But not responding to your players when they ask “Why do Viera and Hrothgar have hand me down Hempen designs? Do you plan on making them all accessible for every race to wear?” just seems a bit strange to me. Sorry for the long winded post. It is just admittedly very frustrating.

Would be nice if Luxpheras could update us on the situation.

[Fawkes]

Would be nice if Luxpheras could update us on the situation.

Luxpheras hasn't been employed by Square Enix for about a year, I think. She's a community manager for Epic Games now.

[Nandrolone]

Luxpheras hasn't been employed by Square Enix for about a year, I think. She's a community manager for Epic Games now.

That’s interesting. I had no idea. Wow, well I hope she’s enjoying it at epic games! There’s just one problem though, since she was basically the messenger, we have no messenger now. So I guess we’ll be put in the dark about the whole thing until it’s either brought up again in a Live Letter, or if a different community representative gives us an update. Luxpheras’ post was back in 2017 it seems, so that means they’ve had a little over two years to decide (and possibly implement) this.

[Glenfiddich]

...or if a different community representative gives us an update. Luxpheras’ post was back in 2017 it seems, so that means they’ve had a little over two years to decide (and possibly implement) this.

If you look at how often the Reps communicate with the Forum, it could take another 2 years, as long as it has nothing to do with the shop...

[Nandrolone]

If you look at how often the Reps communicate with the Forum, it could take another 2 years, as long as it has nothing to do with the shop...

Geez, that’s kind of depressing to think about. I certainly appreciate Luxpheras taking the effort to actually update us on it before she left, though. Well I mean, how long did it take for FFXIV to see things like the bunny outfit to be gender unlocked? We could probably take an educated guess from previous glamour-related requests.

[Theodric]

Luxpheras hasn't been employed by Square Enix for about a year, I think. She's a community manager for Epic Games now.

That's interesting. I wonder if the reason some of the others have been so silent lately is because they've left as well?

[Mimilu]

I was also reading the previous Live Letter “Ask a Question” threads, and I saw a few people mention Hempen outfits being accessible to all races, and why Viera/Hrothgar are somehow the only exceptions. It seems it wasn’t brought up in the recent Live Letters either. So, that tells me they are dodging the question for some reason.

In those threads, they only answer the questions that have the most likes versus answering questions that have been asked repeatedly/frequently or more serious/interesting questions that have less likes.
It's kind of lame system because if you want certain questions answered, you'll have to dig through the thread for them. :B