VIERA AND HROTHGAR COMPLAINT MEGATHREAD

[SherlottaEryut]

Three years ago, female Viera and male Hrothgar were introduced. On the 7th August 2019 (prior to the pandemic) Yoshi-P stated on a live letter that a decision was made by him and his team that both Viera and Hrothgar will not be able to equip hats. This choice was made in order for these races to, in Yoshi’s words; ‘retain their unique features’ BUT he stated that we would receive in future patches race-exclusive hairstyles in order to compensate for the limitations. So, SE… Where are they? Was the idea scrapped? Why are we missing our compensation as well as hats? We need more communication.

These two races, as you said yourself, are unique.. So, over 2 years of waiting in anticipation and we get 6 short and obviously the easiest to be implemented hairstyles. But honestly? Majority of the Viera are still wearing their race exclusive hairstyles which speaks volumes. This attempt at making the Viera race equal to the others by giving us the other races hairstyles is obviously not making up for the limitations, because even IF you gave us access to all modern aesthetics and mogstation we’re still less than the other races. We still can’t wear majority of hats, not even the job ones. Yes, you could argue that we received circlets, some hoods and glasses but that’s only because the character development team made this possible because THEY DID IT IN THEIR FREE TIME (Unpaid, I might add) SE, you are capable of making the changes, but from an outside perspective looking in, you aren’t making the time for it. Why are the Viera & Hrothgar a (what seems to be) low priority?

The decision to implement the gender counterparts before sorting out the pre-existing issues was not efficient. There has been little-to-no communication on the matter. With this thread, I am hoping that eventually more people will use it to voice their opinion and actually manage to grab SE’s attention… but I’m not going to hold my breath because anything related to these two races usually gets thrown to the back of the forums within a couple days. I can only hope others openly share their disappointment so we can get answers about SE’s official plans for these two races.

People, do not push Viera and Hrothgar at the back of the priority list again because when people disregard this issue by claiming it as unimportant, it’s why SE doesn’t take action with haste. High demand is what keeps winning. Think of this post everytime you tell a Viera to “get over it” yet start demanding butt sliders and playable ivalician moogles - remember Viera are low priority because you’re contributing to it by belittling how these two races are treated. I can only hope that we don’t get ignored for another 3 years because SE are too busy with creating the high-in-demand female Hrothgar.