New things from German interview with yoshida

[Theodric]

To be fair, I don't think he's necessarily wrong about such being the inspiration behind their design...

The addition of male viera has allowed the race to move away from that stereotype somewhat, but let's not forget that Yoshi-P himself is on record stating that he would be reluctant to add them because, in his own words, 'a male rabbit might be kind of weird'.



He's since changed his mind and the interview in question is from 2013 but still...

[MagiusNecros]

I want to know why they thought tying hairstyles to faces on Hrothgar was a good decision.

Forces players to buy fantasia if they want a particular hairstryle later on.

[SturmChurro]

That's actually really too bad. I would rather have had mixed race(s), like Hilda (Elezen/Hyur) - which would probably have no limitations.. than viera in this state. That sort of mixed race would not only be popular, but I also doubt they'd be limited. They'd get hairs and hats just like everyone else, plus look cool. A proper elf race. What could have been..

It was common enough feedback over the years, too - but for whatever reason the development team decided to add not one but two new playable races at the same. Not only did they do as much, they ended up having to add the missing genders in addition because naturally when people only get half of something, a lot of them want the full thing.

The situation would probably bother me less if it weren't for the fact that at least two rival MMO's have completely revamped their character customisation fairly recently and there's a couple of upcoming MMO's on the horizon that allow me to design a character more to my personal taste.

They add viera/hrothgar, then it feels like they completely forget about them. No updates, limited. Then they add in male viera - who will be just as limited, and then they are going to add another beast race gender - that probably won't be able to change their single hair without fantasia. While I like viera, I really question if it was actually worth the resources spent and will ultimately be spent on maintaining this race.

For example: Now instead of just creating hairs that everyone can use, they are making hairs that everyone else can use. On top of that - eventually - hairs that only viera can use, then, supposedly, new heads that male hroth can use (have to fantasia) as a substitute for hairs, then, again, heads that only female hroth can use!