Quote Originally Posted by einschwartz View Post
Imagine handing over a clearly half-assed work -- that doesn't even look good; to your superior.
And still be accepted or considered OK to be shown on a live broadcast.

I wish I could do that in real life without jeopardizing my job.
This! If it were ANY OTHER RACE than Hrothgar, this wouldn't even be in the discussion. But because it was Hrothgar they saw it as being perfectly acceptable! Cause what are the Hrothgar players gonna do? Complain about it? They are less than 3% of the player base and the JP players don't care about Hrothgar, it's just those westerners and F them, am I right?

Lo and behold, no one was happy with this change. Not even the JP players, who I have heard that they started some threads on their forums, it is not only ugly for the Hrothgar players but everyone that has to see them. Everyone saw this as a massive slap in the face for the Hrothgar community. They are getting backlash for it as they should!
When you promise something for more than 3+ years, don't be surprised that people will get rightfully angry about it when it's done poorly.

The thing that hurts ME the most is that everything else they showed was amazing and it is clear that the dev team put a lot of care into it, EVEN the PARASOLS got more care than a playable race, an item you can only use when you are out of battle and in idle animation! That was on their priority list, not the players that have to pay real-life money to do something that every other race would pay 2k Gill.