New things from German interview with yoshida

[SturmChurro]

For all the constant talk about hairstyles and hats (or gender locks for that matter) it doesn't completely define the race unless people insist on it. The character models are there and you can create a range of characters even if there aren't as many choices as for other races. Though I agree that I hope they can keep up with what they've started - given that Yoshida said they couldn't afford the resources and people just kept pushing and demanding it. (I am personally glad they're coming but I wish it didn't come with such an uneasy edge to the reasons and the consequences.)

As for hairstyles, naturally the people speaking loudest about the issue are the people who do want to regularly change their hair, but I would love to know what actual percentage of the playerbase this adds up to. How many people alter their characters and how many pick a hairstyle at the character creation stage and never touch it again?

Most of my characters still have the same hairstyle they started with. I very occasionally change it because I can, but I wouldn't miss the ability if it wasn't available.

Then maybe they shouldn't release hairstyles at all, and focus those development resources elsewhere? As in, nothing for any other race too, as it can't be that many players who change something as minuscule as a hair? Perhaps we could have seen better looking relic weapons or more tangible rewards like mounts. Frankly, mounts would be more useful to collect for a viera/hrothgar player - they can actually use them.

It's not the devs fault if a hrothgar player wants to change to their other hairstyle: there are fantasias available on the mogstation! Same with viera. If a viera player wants to change their look: there are fantasias available on the mogstation! There are a plethora of other player races available in FFXIV, if someone just has to change their hair. Working as intended, I'd say.