Why is there no long hair or curly hair in game?

I would think they could at least make braids with similar physics to Twi'leks' lekku...

I just want to know why so many male hairstyles are some form of balding.

I feel like this is an issue for western developers. Asian developers don't seem to have any trouble making long flowing hair for both male and female avatars. See: Aion and Tera.

Clipping issues most likely. No sure about why there's no curly hair if it's short though.

Military Indoctrination.

The only people who wouldn't be related to military indoctrination are Bounty Hunters and Smugglers.

Japanese MMOs have hair down your back all the time, PSU, PSO2... I think american artists just dont wanna deal with it. I hate it, personally. I'd love to have hair like mine on my characters.

I've made lots of hair for some mod friendly games and I will tell you, it's a pain in the butt. Even once you get the gravity to function properly with the whole thing you have the issue with clothing sizes. So long hair would need to be modified to be able to lay against the body in medium and light armor and to float above the body - on top of the armor - in heavy armor, and anything that has hair over the shoulders will need to be programmed to go over chest pieces/breasts in various types of armor.

Hair is a nightmare with clipping issues - and more than a few times I've completely thrown away an entire hair project because it was too much of a pita (or released it half-assed because people kept asking for it, but with a proper warning that it clipped like crazy or only had functional gravity from the shoulder up).

As for curly hair, if you want hair that is truly curly from a 3D perspective, you're going to kill many graphics cards OR the hair will look bad on low settings. To keep that from happening you can lay a curly texture on top of a flat mesh, and it looks kind of curly depending on the angle you look at it from, but it's not really curly - which would probably satisfy some people, but lead to complaints from others.

TL;DR, hair in video games is the freakin' devil and if everyone would just go bald already programmers would have an easier time getting content out. So go bald already! I'd rather have a whole new range of makeups and scars anyway.

That's one thing I hate about this game is the hair styles. The options suck except for women for the most part. Can I get a Jedi Afro added to this please?????