Thread: 6.2 Hrothgar Update

Originally Posted by reivaxe

I think you all are confusing some basic things.

Hrothgar were never planned to have SHARED hair, hair that other races have. They were also not designed to be able to change their own hair outside of $10 potions. The plan was to add new heads with unique Hrothgar "Manes" and have people pay $10 to potion to them.

They actively had to change the shape of the heads for some of the faces to make this new shared hair system work.

So yeah, they were supposed to get "Hrothgar hair" that you pay $10s for, like the Stubble face for mids. They heard what people wanted and tried to make the shared hair system work instead.

Yeah, perhaps initially after launch they did think racial specific hairs would work, but, obviously, considering the recent official reply from Yoshida on how these hairs would take significantly longer, I feel like that's the actual reason why: it would be too much work. Shared hairs are easier to implement and they were supposed to appease people wanting them. Why Yoshida was "surprised" there was such backlash over the hrothgar hairs.