Now before you overreact

[rachcouture]

Do you have a link to where it was "officially stated" that the rest of the headgear is coming, and only absent due to time constraints?

Hair was mentioned all the way back in August: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post5126637

Helmets were mentioned far before Shadowbringers was released. It's the entire reason why various team members took it upon themselves to convert a huge chunk of items when possible, aside from being called out on Viera not being unique whatsoever.

I think Viera being a female only race with its defining characteristics being a large bust and butt in a thong is a joke but they spent a lot of resources on that too.

I've wanted Viera in this game for a very long time because of their runway model builds and matriarchal society. Their rear end or optionally large bust (something other races already have) had nothing to do with it.

Look, if people want stuff to be worn by both sexes, that should be fine, and frankly all the outfits should be wearable more or less by either sex. That being said, I personally find it silly to see male characters running around in 2B's gear, simply because it looks pretty awful. I dont think people fully understand that some clothing articles are designed to accentuate certain features on females or males, so sticking it on the opposite sex doesnt work out to well because, you know, males and females are not 1:1 copies of one another and have some differences in their morphology.

While this doesn't so much apply to FFXIV as most male PC models are sexualized, in real life, there do happen to be men with a feminine figure, and women with a masculine figure. It's not that black and white.

[Iscah]

Hair was mentioned all the way back in August: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post5126637

Helmets were mentioned far before Shadowbringers was released. It's the entire reason why various team members took it upon themselves to convert a huge chunk of items when possible, aside from being called out on Viera not being unique whatsoever.

The quote you linked has nothing to do with headgear, which is what I was talking about when you called my post "disingenuous".

And I know about the team spending their own time modeling headgear - I quoted Yoshida's post about it. The reason they did that is because (as Yoshida had said at the Fan Fest presentation) headgear was not going to display at all on the new races.

It sounds clear to me that they had not been assigned any work time to create these models, because the executive decision had been "no headgear at all" because of the unique character designs. Instead they put their own time and effort into making some compatible types of items equippable anyway.

While I don't have a character of either of the races, my understanding is that it's all glasses, circlets and hairpins, but no hats or helmets that would cover up part of the hair. It's a clear line they aren't crossing, even with new gear. It's not just time constraints.