Future added hairstyles seem to be up in the air with the graphics update I imagine taking up a huge amount of time and them not wanting to add in lower quality textures only to have to update them again for 7.0, and the only other new (non-mogstation) hairstyle displayed in Gold Saucer being another boring mashup that is too similar to an already existing ponytail. One quick glance at the hairstyles from Lost Ark makes all the ones we have in FFXIV look like a complete joke. These hairstyles that were made in 2010 if not earlier have aged like milk.

A common complaint is that the new hairstyles that we do get are also not feminine enough for female characters and not masculine enough for male characters, though both sides will argue that the other is being favored because these hairstyles are simply in too much of a grey area to appeal to either gender. I will never support the addition of racial exclusive hairs for Viera on top of the ones they already have because unlike Hrothgar their heads are actually human-shaped. There is no point in adding new high quality hairs for them alone especially when so many other races look like they are stuck in the past decade.

Hrothgar on the other hand are a completely different situation - just giving them anything that retains their ears would be an improvement over what they have now. Racial exclusive hairstyles for them with their unique head shapes makes sense though it would have been a lot less hassle if they just added some of the more coveted hairs like the Wind Caller hairstyle while still retaining their ears. The situation those players are finding themselves in could have easily been avoided if this strange decision was not made, and since it bears repeating: Just let things clip. I can say this for any number of other situations where the factor of clipping is used to gatekeep why we can't have cool things but in this case, their extreme aversion to letting things clip resulted in this:



What was obvious to us was seemingly not obvious to them, that people would not give a positive reception to receiving this after 3 years of nothing. It was an utterly shameful moment for a game that is already criticized for its lackluster hair options and somehow managed to give itself even more bad press regarding the situation.

The year is 2022. I see no reason other than this apparent fear of clipping that they need to get over already as to why we cannot have high quality hairstyles like the following:



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Seeing the hairstyles in lost ark n looking at what xiv has makes me sigh.