Thread: 6.2 Patch Notes

Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I do not think they look similar in that Lost Ark’s are of higher texture quality (for both men and women) and are a lot longer than FFXIV’s female hairstyles as I later went on to show. I expect for the game to improve and be bolder with its hairstyle designs in 2022, same as how they’ve been making some better-looking gearsets in late Shadowbringers and Endwalker compared to the quality of gear back in Heavensward and Stormblood

Your initial post was literally just you posting some random Lost Ark hairstyles. Nothing about whether you were talking about texture quality, or length. Hence, moving goalposts. I also find it hilarious that you're almost praising WoW's hairstyles, while posting a set of hairstyles that were modeled nearly a decade ago (the Void Elf ones being minor adjustments to the Blood Elf ones).

Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I also disagree that most of WoW’s hairstyles look terrible.

I'll just copy what you enjoy typing so much "Agree to disagree".
Having played both MMOs for 7+ years, I've changed my hairstyle in XIV significantly more often than I have in WoW, simply because most races only have a few decent hairstyles.

Oh, and you should know that the ponytail hairstyle is the last one to be added from a community-voted hairstyle design contest, with player-submitted hair designs. In fact, there's a total of 11 hairstyles from the same contest already available ingame. So a good chunk of hairstyles weren't even designed by the company that you're complaining about.

EDIT: To add, before you go on another typing spree. No, I don't think XIV is some perfect game without flaws. The game definitely has room for improvement in several areas, texture quality being one of them. However, it's a bit silly to complain about that, considering Yoshi-P has already announced a significant texture update coming in 7.0.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

Your initial post was literally just you posting some random Lost Ark hairstyles. Nothing about whether you were talking about texture quality, or length. Hence, moving goalposts. I also find it hilarious that you're almost praising WoW's hairstyles, while posting a set of hairstyles that were modeled nearly a decade ago (the Void Elf ones being minor adjustments to the Blood Elf ones).

And I still find these older hairstyles more serving to the theme of fantasy and uniqueness than some of the hairstyles we’ve been getting in FFXIV. Just because I don't bring something up that I care about in my initial post doesn't mean I can't talk about it later on if I choose.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

I'll just copy what you enjoy typing so much "Agree to disagree".
Having played both MMOs for 7+ years, I've changed my hairstyle in XIV significantly more often than I have in WoW, simply because most races only have a few decent hairstyles.

This is not an argument against the addition of better hairstyles. It is a statement in support of them, so that the both of us can have more to choose from that is to our liking.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

Oh, and you should know that the ponytail hairstyle is the last one to be added from a community-voted hairstyle design contest, with player-submitted hair designs. In fact, there's a total of 11 hairstyles from the same contest already available ingame. So a good chunk of hairstyles weren't even designed by the company that you're complaining about.

There are people to this day who feel that the hairstyle design contest was a bad idea in retrospect, and that some of those hairstyles weren’t recreated as faithfully as they could’ve been. It has also taken an unusually long time to finish implementing them all, with the ones that we have received outside of these still falling in line with gender neutral, short to mid-length styles that both genders are complaining about.

Originally Posted by Nezerius

EDIT: To add, before you go on another typing spree. No, I don't think XIV is some perfect game without flaws. The game definitely has room for improvement in several areas, texture quality being one of them. However, it's a bit silly to complain about that, considering Yoshi-P has already announced a significant texture update coming in 7.0.

A texture upgrade isn’t going to change how long or how unique these pre-existing styles are. New hairs tailored to the wants of each gender however would do something to remedy the current situation. If they would have to be locked to their respective genders, then that is a trade off I'm willing to accept.

Originally Posted by Kazhar

I don't have a source but the player who told me that is the same person who posts the famitsu translations on reddit so I'd say they're reliable.

I'm open to wait and see. I didn't even expect them to upgrade the graphics it was a pleasant surprise when they announced it in a live letter. I don't get the NPC comments if they're not character related because that's basically what NPC's are. He even apologized of sorts saying sorry we'll have to wait on some and to be patient.

After all is said and done I think FF characters and animations are beautiful. We shall see what comes but I'm optimistic we'll get some major improvements to the game overall.

There are people to this day who feel that the hairstyle design contest was a bad idea in retrospect,

...and those people were...who exactly? Who said that? Where?

Source?

Originally Posted by VelKallor

...and those people were...who exactly? Who said that? Where?

Source?

You're practically fuming in here. It's honestly fun to watch