Viera head gear -_-

[WhiteArchmage]

Did they explain why they couldn't just drill 2 holes in hats/helmets/hoods for the viera?

Was that just a design choice? If that's the case, pretty dumb choice.

In fact, I recall ARR gear having a "tail hole" or otherwise gap for miqo'te tails to go through. You could see it more clearly with tail-less races, as the hole was pretty noticable in the BCOB gear. At some point it seems they stopped caring and now tails just clip through, so it seems like they just don't care enough for ear holes, either.

[yukiiyuki]

In fact, I recall ARR gear having a "tail hole" or otherwise gap for miqo'te tails to go through. You could see it more clearly with tail-less races, as the hole was pretty noticable in the BCOB gear. At some point it seems they stopped caring and now tails just clip through, so it seems like they just don't care enough for ear holes, either.

Game was made with love and care back then, it has more depth. Nowadays they're just can't keep up with everything, with how little they have.

[Iscah]

Game was made with love and care back then, it has more depth. Nowadays they're just can't keep up with everything, with how little they have.

Some of the tail holes actually look pretty terrible. The haubergeons just have a vertical slice taken out of the skirt part, and if bliauds have ruffled edges then the ruffle sticks out oddly as it goes up and around the tail notch.

[yukiiyuki]

Some of the tail holes actually look pretty terrible. The haubergeons just have a vertical slice taken out of the skirt part, and if bliauds have ruffled edges then the ruffle sticks out oddly as it goes up and around the tail notch.

So instead of fixing or finding a new way, just making none is a way to go. Well, less work to do is a good thing, with that logic it got us to half baked new races

[TheMightyMollusk]

I mean, there's worse solutions to the tail problem.

[yukiiyuki]

I mean, there's worse solutions to the tail problem.

Hey, boner tails was a cool idea

[Icarus059]

I wouldn't mind the restrictions on the hats currently if I had all of my purchased/acquired hairstyles available to me. I feel that is a huge missed opportunity on the dev team's part not making sure that anything paid for on the mog station being available to Hrothgar and Viera. If you paid money for it, you should have it available to you, full stop. I can only hope that is addressed within this expansion cycle...

[TheMightyMollusk]

I disagree. Aside from just looking awkward, it also doesn't move at all, which is rather jarring with the overall energetic expressiveness of female Miqo'te. Arguably worse for Au Ra, just because their tails all have hard scales on top, so clearly they can't bend upwards like that, not to mention being compressed in size like that....

[MrKusakabe]

What baffles me with is the fact people actually defend Square Enix for this practice. I mean, seriously, what the heck? A game in this category should shine.
Where is the difference of bashing Electronic Arts for half-assed games and paid DLCs that add stuff to the game that should be there since start and a game where you pay milestone purchases (expansions, base game) and a monthly fee that basically still half-ass things and want you to wait (which means nothing but paying more in the meantime?) while also piling up stuff in a cash shop for ridiculous prices? To be honest, we are on EA level, if not a tad worse here.

I highly enjoy Viera, despite me being a Hardcore Lalaracist. I am always looking for some tall amazon with fluffy ears when I enter a party. And what is going on here is an awful amount of slacking. This is a high-publicity AAA title from one of the most known, long-ongoing Franchise, and they are stuck like this for Y E A R S! If it's cheaper, or no cash shop, okay. But the amount of monthly income is insane compared to what we get back.

Whatever the FFXIV team actually does is high quality. Man, I just adored the Red Mage animations in party screenshot thingy "frame by frame" and it's insane how each finger is modelled, how we juggle our rapiers and the crystal with each spell, how our clothing flares out when we fight, how our plume on the Tricorne bobs. This is not real-life physics (not even nVidia PhysX^^) but all set up by a rigger. It's eye-candy. On the other side, this game gets stuck on stupid things. Maybe don't do those crappy cross-events and spent those ressources into getting us them huge female lions and male rabbits for repopulation!


We saved the game from a massive failure, and it rose like Phoenix from the ashes. But apparently, they are fed up with money again too much and are chilling on their laurels.



Are Japanese companies always that kind of a mess??

[SturmChurro]

Back to the game, resubbed, and now back to the forums (I'M BACK!). The usual viera thread on the front page, glad to see.

Like I read things saying "It's been 5-6-7+months and we still haven't been given new hairs! WTF?!?"

5 - 6 - 7+ months is a really long time for something as little as hairs. I have given up on the notion of headgear, they won't make unique models, the best viera will get is clipping through the top of a hood. The least they can do is hairs. We haven't seen a single one. Not one. No headgear, no hairs. Baseline since last year. It's ridiculous.