VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[Kanehon]

Another event has arrived, another piece of gear we can't wear. And it makes me feel so dumb to be forced to wear a piece of gear that does not show up as existing at all to continue the quest

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

I got Gil on for hevensturn we will get another hat that bun buns and harths won't be able to wear.

[NezhaRose]

https://imgur.com/a/PREElBz
This is not okay, my day is ruined. If youre gonna be this lazy, how about you give us a discount for hats we cant wear from the mog store eh? Why charge us full price for an armor set with pieces we cant wear?

[VerdeLuck]

The worst part about this is when rewards like this come out, Viera and Hroth players are forced to farm and earn FOMO items they can't use on the off chance they fanta one day or SE fixes the races.
I can't wear the PvP armor or GARO armor. I didn't farm it up because I couldn't wear it. If and when SE gets off their butt to fix it and lets my character wear that armor, I won't have it because I didn't earn it for the very short window it was available.

Are they going to rerun the items and events? Are they going to make previous FOMO items available again so that people who couldn't wear it previously and didn't farm it can have a chance at it? Are they just going to load those into the store and make Viera's buy items they could have had for free?
Am I supposed to farm up items I can't use and stash them away in the off chance that someday I can use them and will want to? The longer this goes on, the more questions start piling up.

[Boblawblah]

I happen to check reddit and it's nice to see both the main sub and even the meme sub supporting Hrothgar/Viera wearing hats and calling SE out for their BS.

[Pip_Chick]

I got Gil on for hevensturn we will get another hat that bun buns and harths won't be able to wear.

I heard that we might actually get baby Chocobo minions dressed as the zodiac animals.

[Jade_Tyrant]

I've just been made aware that Yoshi-P visited the Chocobo server (JP datacenter) and answered some questions today. (Source is here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../61125701.html , I do not speak Japanese but got a translation from a Discord server; just to check, I did a Google translation and it supports the actual human translation so I'm safely assuming the human translation is the more accurate version)

Specifically relevant to this thread:

Q: Please add more hats for Viera!
A: We're working on adjusting the system for Viera and Hrothgar wearing head gear, please wait patiently!

Not gonna pretend it's much (at its core, it's just "Soon(TM)"), but it's the most significant update I've heard in a fairly long while, even checking other translated interviews and such.

Given the wording of "wait patiently", I'm not expecting the update in Dawntrail's release... but maybe we'll see something in the Dawntrail patches rather than having to wait forever?

[grinkdaboy]

i'm looking forward to when they make the strife hair available for viera

[VerdeLuck]

I've just been made aware that Yoshi-P visited the Chocobo server (JP datacenter) and answered some questions today. (Source is here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../61125701.html , I do not speak Japanese but got a translation from a Discord server; just to check, I did a Google translation and it supports the actual human translation so I'm safely assuming the human translation is the more accurate version)

Specifically relevant to this thread:



Not gonna pretend it's much (at its core, it's just "Soon(TM)"), but it's the most significant update I've heard in a fairly long while, even checking other translated interviews and such.

Given the wording of "wait patiently", I'm not expecting the update in Dawntrail's release... but maybe we'll see something in the Dawntrail patches rather than having to wait forever?

We have all heard this so many times before but look where we're still at. They were supposed to be attempting it going forward in Endwalker but look at all the rewards and gear they release every patch that we can't even use.
"Wait patiently" is going to end up being in years at this rate. Maybe by the time the game hits maintenance mode in 8-10 years we can start to wear BLM or RDM hats.

[Caro178]

We don't have to spread more falsities in order to express frustration and discontentment. We have not "heard this many times before". YoshiP hasn't touched this subject with a 6 foot pole since mid Shadowbringers' when his only claim was that it would be difficult due to clipping blah blah. They absolutely did not profess at any point that they were working on adapting headgear going forward with Endwalker - their promise applied to hairstyles only and they followed through on exactly what they actually claimed they were working on. I've been knee deep in this for years and I know for a fact this is the first time EVER that YoshiP or anybody involved in XIV's development has directly confirmed that they are, in fact, actively working on addressing this exact problem.

I'll add we've known since 6.5 that work was beginning to be done because the primary maker of the Viera headgear mod discovered evidence of them beginning to adapt a few hats a few months ago.