Viera and Hrothgar Megathread

[Tatiana]

Ignoring the rest of the player base to make hair just for V/H is non-sense. They told us all that Viera would never have as big of a selection as of the rest of the races over 2 years ago, no reason to expect them to ever reach the same amount. But if they can get the same hair as other races going forward now that they reworked their head stuff, that's good enough imo.
We'll have to see if that's the case though in 6.1 or w/e they release a new hairstyle.

I agree with Ardeth in that if THIS is how these races are gonna be, then they shouldn't have bothered making them this way in the first place (Should have just made longer Miqote ears for Viera and "Highlander Miqote" for Hrothgar if that's the only way to make them fully functional imo) but tis the cards the players have been dealt, can't change it now, so it's best to accept that they're gonna be boned in this regard until they rework this game's graphics engine and systems.

What they said was that they would not have as many when they release, but they were going to do race exclusive hairstyles for both of the races to make up for the modern aesthetics they can't port over. The community upset over this subject happened when month after month came and went with that promise not being met in any capacity at all while they kept releasing new things for everyone else which they have acknowledged several times. I'm fine with either approach, but the disparity needs to be addressed.

[reivaxe]

What they said was that they would not have as many when they release, but they were going to do race exclusive hairstyles for both of the races to make up for the modern aesthetics they can't port over. The community upset over this subject happened when month after month came and went with that promise not being met in any capacity at all while they kept releasing new things for everyone else which they have acknowledged several times. I'm fine with either approach, but the disparity needs to be addressed.

No, they said they would never have the amount of options or selection as any other race.
They never expressed in any shape that they intended to "make up the difference" by giving them any huge amount of unique hair, you're reading something you want from something they said (Yes, YP said at first that they would give Viera SOME old hair and only ones that worked before changing it to only unique hair ... before showing us now that it's shared hair. It's been confusing, but they have never said that you should expect to ever have the same number as other races).

Like, there's currently 28 unlockable hairstyles in this game and however many shared hairstyles that don't need to be unlocked (Prob 10-16 iirc)... there's no way to think that V/H would get possibly 40+ unique hairstyles to make up for not having shared hair.

The disparity will not be addressed in the way you seem to want as they've been telling us for 2 years that there's always gonna be that disparity, best to just hope Viera are now compatible with future hairstyles.