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Mollie Taylor

Final Fantasy 14 is doing what it should have done 6 years ago and fulfilling its promise to let every race wear hats

Viera wearing hats.

When MMOs are populated by races of all shapes and sizes, it's inevitable that some of them—let's face it, usually the less humanoid folk—are going to get the short end of the stick when it comes to nice-looking gear. Armor warps and stretches on a Charr's large frame in Guild Wars 2, and helmets often clip their horns and manes. World of Warcraft's Orcs got a rough go of things a while back when they had to run around in comically tiny shoulder pads.

Then there's Final Fantasy 14 and its goddamn hats. When the Shadowbringers expansion was released in 2019, it introduced two new races: Final Fantasy 12's Viera, and the Final Fantasy 10 Ronso-adjacent Hrothgar.

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