Thread: 6.2 Patch Notes

Then we shall have to agree to disagree on the matter. I do not consider the recent hairstyle additions in FFXIV of the quality appropriate for 2022, and I do not consider especially the male ponytail to have sufficient texture quality compared to the female variant. The hairstyles you have listed are either racially exclusive, released in 2013, styled in stiff or unnatural ways, or in the case of the Hime cut you have posted not used by the playerbase at large due to issues with its design, specifically with how it looks from the back.

Speaking of how hairs look from the back, this the quality that is able to be achieved when the fear of clipping is overcome. I would much sooner dress my female characters in clothes that avoid clipping than be forced to have hairstyles that are gender neutral and generic, for lack of a better term. FFXIV needs to step it up in this regard, the sooner the better. The standards for character customization in this game must be held up if not raised further. Once more, accepting the status quo is not to FFXIV's benefit while other games far exceed these restrictions.



Identify what is causing the limitations, and overcome it. Whether that is resources being taken up by other projects, rearranging the list of priorities, or fundamental flaws at the design/modelling stage. Even WoW offers more unique and fantastical hairstyles for both genders of their races than FFXIV does. 50+ short to mid-length hairstyles that don't match with the fantasy of either gender simply doesn't help matters much. Of these more recent releases, aside from the Adventurer hair and Form and Function I cannot think of any that the playerbase would be quite upset to see exchanged for something of higher quality.