Why is all the new hair that get added short hair?

[Iscah]

I think one reason we don’t get truly short hair is because of the Miqote eats. I imagine it would look weird on them. The shortest they ever dared go universal for all races was Conrad Kemp’s hair, if you remember him.

More relevantly (and recently), they used it for Kai-Shirr - and personally I don't think it really works well. It draws too much attention to the lack of human ears.

You were also talking about not getting curly styles - I think a simple reason for that is that they're harder to model (and probably to animate convincingly) than straight styles.

[SturmChurro]

I think one reason we don’t get truly short hair is because of the Miqote eats. I imagine it would look weird on them. The shortest they ever dared go universal for all races was Conrad Kemp’s hair, if you remember him.

Also, to SE only giving us bobs and straight hairstyles with bangs or whatever is probably because this is a Japanese game and well, when it comes to men in Asia, they usually have a bob, mop top or bowl cut hairstyles. I know that sounds terrible but think about it. It’s true. Sometimes you’ll see a guy with some other hairstyle, but mostly bob type hair. Women, they just have straight, sleek hair. They can style it however. So when they make short hairstyles, they have Asian men in mind and give us another variation of a bob, mop top or bowl cut. If it was a Western game, we’d have crew cuts, flat tops, some corporate cut or whatever we have here. This might also be why we also don’t get curly as Asians don’t have curly hair unless they perm it.

I hope this doesn’t come off as offensive as it wasn’t meant to be.

One of my miqo'te presets with a short hair.

Yeah, I was going to reply about this. I agree, we probably don't see a lot of the more masculine styles that are popular here in the west, because we get more Japanese styled cuts in this Japanese game. Still, I wouldn't think it would be that big of an ask to get one or two western styled haircuts. Actually, it probably is a big ask.

[Pandie_Goodies]

I do wish they'd go back and consider some of the ones that made the initial cut for voting, but never actually won. Because I desperately want some of them.

Good lord the messy hairstyle one looks so damn good. That's what I like to see, MESSY hairstyles. Alot of them are just too clean looking. First one is also great, braids are nice to see when done right.

[wereotter]

One of my miqo'te presets with a short hair.

I use this cut, and I think it looks fine.... I'm not put off by the lack of ears where you'd normally expect them on a human face.

Also I would say this is a Japanese developed game.... but at this point it's a world-wide game. Square needs to make at least some accomodations for tastes and cultures all over in order to be more successful. They've started doing this with things like western audiences wanting sex restrictions removed from clothing items, so I'm not trying to imply that they're ignorant to this. But getting hairstyles that are timeless yet popular in North America and Europe will benefit the game's popularity in those markets.

[BunniEclair]

Let. Us. Be. MESSY!

I would love more disheveled or wild looks!

[Rasikko]

Clipping is probably the biggest demon of all of 3D modeling.

[Duskane]

Clipping is probably the biggest demon of all of 3D modeling.

and if they cared about it we wouldn't have Au ra,Hrothgar,viera or any long hair

[Rasikko]

You got me there.

Commodore 64 limitations.

Nevermind. Going for the nitty gritty.

Floppy Disk drive limitations.

[Avidria]

I do wish they'd go back and consider some of the ones that made the initial cut for voting, but never actually won. Because I desperately want some of them.

I reeeaaally wish some of the other ones had won. I'd have to go back and look, but I think maybe one or two of the ones I voted for did? I forget if there was a vote limit...

But yeah, there are some really good ones that didn't win, and I personally wasn't much a fan of several of the ones that did win :/ oh well

Hopefully we will get another shot someday

[NekoHina]

If they just unlocked all of the races hairstyles so that everyone had access to all of it, it would solve so many problems. We would get many new styles both long and short and in between, buns, braids and ponytails...all without having to “add” anything new to the game. This is something we should have had to begin with and it gives everyone something new. If we had more variety to choose from overall then players from all races would see more variety in the game, instead of the same few long or short styles on everyone.