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[Allegor]

Perhaps they're not thinking of it in terms of people constantly changing hairstyles? Or they just decided that it was a necessary sacrifice to achieve their vision for the design, whether players would actually agree or not.

I can't know what the rest of the dev team think of altering their characters or not, but Yoshida's Lalafell character has always used the same hairstyle as far as I can recall, and doesn't even change her outfit.

And at a totally different level, for my own case, I rarely if ever change my characters' physical appearance. Their hairstyle is part of their appearance, and they look odd if it's different. If I had a Hrothgar character I wouldn't be remotely bothered by the lack of changeable hairstyles because I wouldn't feel the need to change it.

I guess it's more of the same mindset that goes into designing NPCs, or fixed player-characters in games that have them. Create a distinctive appearance and stick to it.

So perhaps they simply underestimated how strongly people feel about being able to change it regularly - or maybe the people that do that are a minority of players. I'd be interested to see a random poll of players about whether or how frequently they change their character's appearance.

I'm inclined to agree to an extent. I like my Hroth as is and wouldn't feel the need to change his hair even if I could. That said, the fact they have such a limited selection to begin with, in addition that they can't even cycle between the 2 hairstyles that share the same face is still troubling. There's a reason almost every Hroths chose face 2 - because both their hairstyles [and/or face itself] are the best of the 8.