Guild Wars 2

Did the dramatic title catch your attention? Alright, Anet, we need to have a quick chat.

Your playerbase loves hair. We go bonkers for hair. You release new hairstyles about twice a year, and for the rest of the year we’re drowning with the same styles. We get our hype up with new hair coming in and… well.

We need to talk about what you’re doing with the human female hair specifically. Norn, Charr, Asura and even Sylvari all have dreadlocks. Human males now have two styles of dreadlocks. Human females have no authentic / natural style for kinky hair. For the game that puts so much thought into the human kingdoms and cultures, we see no hairstyle that fits Elonan characters.

We’re just plain missing hair on human females that isn’t perfectly straight or delicately styled. We need LONG curly hair, we need dreadlocks, we need braids and twists.

EXAMPLES

Zoe Kravitz with braids: http://www.glamour.com/images/beauty/2015/05/zoe-kravitz-long-braids-cannes-square-w352.jpg

Zendaya with locs: http://www.londoncurls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/zen.jpg

Long curly hair: http://aelida.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/long-curly-hair.jpg

What happened to styles like this? https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/89599/2009_December_human_02.jpg

Why can’t we get curled / long / different hair for our human females? We know you hate clipping, but at this point we’re willing to deal with clipping so long as our characters can have something more than a bob or perfectly styled look (ie: the recent curled pony tail, the perfectly waved side-hair).

While we’re at it, how about a few less styled looks for males as well? There are like twelve buzzcuts, and the rest look like we just stepped out of a salon. Heck, why not start with all of the hairstyles from Nightfall and go from there.

Humans literally have a character creation option that allows us to start seriously impoverished peasants. Somehow, humans lack a significant array of “bedhead” or “unkempt” hairstyles even though, given creation options, these should be like a third of the options.

I am inclined to agree. The thing is, though, this game tends to go for glamour and glitz where cosmetics are concerned. with an exceedingly strong underlay of animé- everything. My sense is that the player base generally likes this, and it seems to be Anet’s style.
That is all fine and good, these things are always going to be highly subjective, fair enough, but I’d at least like some more choice in terms of hair and everything else related to appearance.

That said, though, I’m of two minds on the subject.. I generally dislike most of the cosmetics available in the Gemstore, which means I can save my purchases for things like character slots and storage space. In a way.. I don’t want to be tempted to spend money on things like hair.