4.2 Updates from Q&A with Yoshida

Hard is a concept that is viewed differently among communities learning a fight where the boss literally does the same thing 90% of the time I will never consider hard which is why I stopped raiding since coils. I honestly haven't been interested in raiding till they released ultimate which by the way was a smart move got twitch views and more. Wish they went to that alot sooner. All of these fights are hey mechs are happening I need to do this to avoid dying or im being a hindrance to the team. Rag on ffxi all you want the fact is you couldn't netflix on the side during "important" fights.

Another few questions when he was on other servers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/7nmkij/questions_to_yoship_when_he_visited_masamune/


Some things from that:

-Please dont put it in there to show the names of those that kicked a person..that will just create lots of anger...I am not even sure why they are considering that..
- Diadem seems to be such a failure that they are even discussing if they dont just shut it down completely and put the minions and mounts somewhere else..well I truly hope that they learned from that disaster.
- Also they plan to add more retainers...if those are still just paid retainers I will be truly disappointed and it would just show that they arguments about server stability would be bad..since it would be fine if people buy them but not if they gave one to us for free.
- Someone asked if they can raise the HP of the older S hunts and he said that it would make it difficult for newer players to join in...this just shows to me that he has no idea how hunting is going right now..I mean they die so fast that new players already dont stand a chance at all..
- They also said that we wont be able to store all mog station glamour items in the chest..wasnt there an interview in the past that said that we will be able to do that with 4.2? I find it still a bit hard that they cant at least flag those outfits, since they cost real money. Instead he just says that we should store them in our retainers or chocobo saddle..thats just sad..(hey we take your money but we wont give you the chance to store them all safely away..)
- They dont want to tell us some informations about Eureka because people would misunderstand it...really that does not sound promising to me..
- They dont want to make healers weaker in the new PVP mode because people would not go into this as a healer anymore...

The most funny thing with these questions was the fact that we dont get quite some emotes because the Japanese player base likes to do something sexual with it..even going so far and putting SEs trademark on such screenshots to make it look like its possible ingame..and that we would get some options to hide informations about us if we change servers because again the Japanese player base likes to chase players they dislike..some comments mentioned that they track their data even if they change server and post it on the internet so that people can follow and stalk the person and even stalk them on discord and stuff like that...I mean its funny because people often like to paint the NA and EU player bases as bad and the Japanese players as saints and yet they seems to be quite worse in a lot of parts..so thanks to them we wont get emotes like sleep. x)

I'm curious as to what they're planning for Adkiragh (AKA the Idyllshire barkeeper, who was revealed to be a runaway Adarkim hiding from his own tribe in Stormblood), since they mentioned they were going use him for something in the future that "lore lovers would enjoy" back before 4.1, and he's probably the "certain Au Ra" that was mentioned in the recent Q&As.

I can't help but wonder far in advance they were planning this all out with how long he's been around.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

Another few questions when he was on other servers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ited_masamune/


Some things from that:
- Also they plan to add more retainers...if those are still just paid retainers I will be truly disappointed and it would just show that they arguments about server stability would be bad..since it would be fine if people buy them but not if they gave one to us for free.

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Well consider this, how many people would get that 3rd free retainer? i would bet its all of the players making for like 100k extra retainers. how many paid retainers are there? considering the sentiment i see a lot i would say less then that, way less. This is just pure speculation though, you can also say that paid retainers help to pay for more/better servers. Shure i would like a free one extra i just dont say its pure greed without knowing the precise situation.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

I’m of the opinion that they should make tiers progressively harder, personally. Sigmascape should be around the same difficulty as Creator (Deltascape is easier than Creator, and was cleared 12 hours faster by the world firsts), with the final tier of Stormblood being around the same difficulty as Midas.

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I agree with you up to same extent but you have to remember people moan to extremes because Gorgias was way "too hard" I remember it very well (specially A3s). So in theory you we had our chance to feel a "harder" content back then. Due to complaints was tone down dramatically and people weren't happy about it. It became "too easy". then what they did was split difficulty between 2 sets , clear example A9S A10S / V1S V2S the "easiest" one and A11S A12s / V3S V4S the "hardest" one. That way Savage , actually , carters for everyone. Funny thing I found A12s easier than V4s... probably cause Neo felt too long of a fight because you had to clear ex first maybe? I don't know I guess each to their own. Now we have Bahamut extreme, nothing extreme about it it's just too long of a fight that's why I haven't bothered with it.

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Originally Posted by Alleo

The most funny thing with these questions was the fact that we dont get quite some emotes because the Japanese player base likes to do something sexual with it..even going so far and putting SEs trademark on such screenshots to make it look like its possible ingame...I mean its funny because people often like to paint the NA and EU player bases as bad and the Japanese players as saints and yet they seems to be quite worse in a lot of parts..so thanks to them we wont get emotes like sleep. x)

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I think it's hilarious that they gave Lalafells a play-dead emote with their butt struck into the air (really didn't they see what's gonna happen with that), but we don't get a sleep emote cause people could abuse it.

That bit about healers is so false it's insulting.

It should especially be insulting to any career healers in PvP, or anyone who was willing and able to switch from before 4.0. As a truth I saw with my own eyes, [I]many times[/I,] we didn't have any issues at all with lack of healers then, nor was there nearly as many issues with people refusing to heal or entire alliances without healers.

This is literally why PvPers say SE doesn't listen to us. That statement is such an insult.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

That bit about healers is so false it's insulting.

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It only confirms what I already surmised in the PvP forums: Power takes a backseat to popularity when it comes to balancing. Healers were never exactly popular in spite of their power and they're probably real happy they finally managed to fill alliances with green for a change, lul.

I think it's very balanced that 2 healers can hold middle and fend off 6-10 dps trying to focus target one down. Yep.

Third overrates how many people switched. A lot of people healed seal rock or shatter because no one else would, and we'd lose otherwise. But most of them would easily change back to dps given the chance. Even now in RW they aren't playing healer to heal people, they play it as a overly potent tank. Nerfs to them have to come, but I don't think anyone should expect healers to just suck it up and keep playing; I expect pvp to full on embrace DPS/Tanking as a binary meta instead of the old trinity one.

Q. Please make more 8 man dungeons.
A. It won't be an 8 man dungeon, but we are planning difficult 4 man content instead.

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Originally Posted by Ceasaria

Q. Please make more 8 man dungeons.
A. It won't be an 8 man dungeon, but we are planning difficult 4 man content instead.

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That'd be a nice change.

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Originally Posted by Ceasaria

Q. Please make more 8 man dungeons.
A. It won't be an 8 man dungeon, but we are planning difficult 4 man content instead.

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Amdapoor Keep [Extreme], please look forward to it.... Git Gud

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

This is basically me; I avoid doing any roulettes once I’ve capped because I consider the content to be stale.

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Why do people always jump to “Savage-level difficulty dungeons” whenever anyone suggests to make them slightly harder? No one has ever suggested dungeons be on a Savage-level. They just want them to not be something you can semi-AFK in the middle of and still clear.

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As one of the few rational posters on this forum, have you seen this thread I posted a while back?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Eureka-Concept

It's basically a new take on dungeon content.

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Originally Posted by Ceasaria

Q. Please make more 8 man dungeons.
A. It won't be an 8 man dungeon, but we are planning difficult 4 man content instead.

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Thank goodness!

Gotta love how the question of DRK adjustments will be made keeps getting thrown out of these.

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Originally Posted by Kyp

Amdapoor Keep [Extreme], please look forward to it.... Git Gud

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Q. Please make more 8 man dungeons.
A. It won't be an 8 man dungeon, but we are planning difficult 4 man content instead.

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Or add a savage 4 man version of all existing raids.

What he said about the S rank.....

Sorry Yoshida fans, but he totally flubbed that one.

Don't get me wrong, I get that there are multiple perspectives, but what he's saying is that it's ok to keep the hunting community unhappy as long as new players don't get more inconvenienced (than they already are!).

What he should do is actually think of a solution for everyone. To do so, you gotta think about the 4 types of players:

1. High level people who do hunts.
They want more difficulty for ARR (and to some extent HW) hunts because as it is a single 70 can solo ARR hunts, but you can't do that for SB. Forgetting the whole "sharing" thing and first-come first-server, which no one will ever agree on. That change in difficulty makes the ARR hunts boring and require no teamwork at all, in SB people will actually get parties and have at least 1 tank & healer to make sure they'll have success. In ARR hunts, none of that matters for a 70, thus BORING.
They attempt to keep other content somewhat relevant through down or upsyncing, but not hunts..

2. High level people who don't hunt
Won't be affected by anything that happens or doesn't happen. Can safely ignore this group.

3. Low level people who don't hunt
Get ganked by mobs. Having more HP (or difficulty of any kind) means that on servers with less active hunting communities, these mobs stay longer in fate/leve/quest areas and stop low level people from being able to do what they do. However if we do nothing that will REMAIN a problem. This needs to be addressed separately and has 2 potential fixes:

A - No more auto-aggro. Whoever thought it was ok to put ganking mobs in areas with questers don't get that one of the appeal of FF14 was to get away from ganking (in contrast to games with pvp servers). I certainly don't want a mob on a game supposedly free of ganking to take up that role.

B - Update all hunt levels to 70 and make it so only people 65+ auto-aggro.role.
If the A & S ranks stop auto-attacking nearby low-level players (via either A or B), any change in HP/difficulty will become irrelevant to this group.

4. Low level players who want to hunt
This group would be anyone 50-65 who still can't solo/duo hunts. Increasing the difficulty would definitely affect them as they definitely wouldn't be able to beat them then. However, hunts were never meant to be soloable and the ilevel/level creep caused that. The fix to this is to increase partying for this group, but many of these newer people don't know about hunt linkshells or how to join one. The fix for this group is thus to FINALLY introduce the ability to make a LS public and allow people to search, apply/autojoin (depending on preferences).

Summary:
- increase ARR and HW hunt difficulty so they are a little bit closer to SB (or at the very least ARR to be HW difficulty)
- Change the auto aggro, should never have existed to begin with.
- Finally give us a LS search, how LS/FC searching still doesn't exist is honestly amazing.

The above 3 changes, combined, would be the most balanced fix across all groups, rather than keeping a flawed feature that annoys one group so that another isn't more inconvenienced.

There are other things that could fix this, like some kind of fate-style downsyncing, or upsyncing, or balancing the monster based on nearby players. This is by no means the only solution that would help all groups.

However the above 3 fixes, combined, are probably the easiest solutions to implement.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Not really thrilled at the idea of Sigmascape being the same difficulty as Deltascape, if I’m to be honest. That was sort of a let down to read. Really hope it’s not.

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On the same token, I'm rather happy for it really.

My group feels like their capabilities as a team of 8 are kind of pushing their limits, for a myriad of reasons. I'm honestly a bit afraid that making basically the only content we even do as a group, harder, would just end the group or make us all miserable on raid nights.

Still, more bosses per tier or better difficulty selection would be preferable.

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Player : キャラメイクの段階にメガネやサングラスを実装する事はできませんか？帽子とメガネ同時装備したいです
(I want to wear hats, glasses at the same time.)
Yoshi'p Sampo: よくご要望いただくのですが、今の設計ではかなり難しいです。PS5とかになれば、やれるかもしれませんが・・・
(It currently very difficult to do it, may be able to do when we go PS5...)

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You can be mad or not, but that line to me as a console peasant makes me happy that the game is going to be released further on ps5, no matter what (at least i hope).

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We are considering showing who vote kicked you.

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I imagine how many people that believe they got wrongfully kicked will retaliate against said players who kicked them.

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We do have plans for the AF3 to be dyeable, but it's still a secret.

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I have a feeling they may also be relic armor, if relic armor also becomes dyable. But we'll see.

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Originally Posted by Caitlinzulu

Well consider this, how many people would get that 3rd free retainer? i would bet its all of the players making for like 100k extra retainers. how many paid retainers are there? considering the sentiment i see a lot i would say less then that, way less. This is just pure speculation though, you can also say that paid retainers help to pay for more/better servers. Shure i would like a free one extra i just dont say its pure greed without knowing the precise situation.

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Its still a bad argument because theoretically lots of people could buy paid retainers and thus the server would explode. ;) I am also quite sure that nobody would complain about one more free retainer that would be given to us without any cost. There are probably more than enough people buying extra retainers or they would not even consider adding more. If they were nice they could have given us one more free retainer per expansion but we only got paid ones. Its time for them to give us one for free, especially with more and more people having storage problems.

(Fantasia, name change, retainers and more should theoretically pay for better services..yet EU got a couple of servers only (which are not enough) and NA servers changed the place which made it worse for a part of the NA playerbase.) Selling even more retainers for money in a game where glamour is part of the endgame and where storage is so short and where we pay for a sub is greed. People are not asking for five more retainers per person. If the servers cant handle one more free retainer than its truly time for them to change their server..because that would just lead to more problems along the way.

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Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI

That bit about healers is so false it's insulting.

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Sometimes I get the feeling that they dont understand the problems..or dont care at all. I mean this feels like its better to have overpowered healers than fixing it so that you stand a chance with any party..how is it fair that you are already at a disadvantage if you have less healers in your party? So instead of wanting the people to play the job that they want, they feel its better to "force" people into playing healer because otherwise they would not even stand a chance..if healers dont want to play pvp otherswise they might have to change PVP a bit..but in a way that allows people to play the job they want..

But seeing their answer to the hunt problem..well I should not be surprised at all. x)

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Originally Posted by Alleo

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EU doesn't need more servers at this point, there are several servers that are complete ghost towns, so unless this changes no extra EU servers.
What I do want is better hardware/quality servers.

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Originally Posted by Fhaerron

EU doesn't need more servers at this point, there are several servers that are complete ghost towns, so unless this changes no extra EU servers.
What I do want is better hardware/quality servers.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...a_101/dnru3kx/

The last data showed that all EU servers are really full, only one single new server was under 10k..they might not be that full right now (between patches) but if another patch starts and people come back we will have problems again..now look at the numbers of people per japanese server..we need more servers to handle new players otherwise we will hit another limit soon.

Questions to Yoshida on Anima server

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Q. When are you adding new tanks and healers?
A. I cannot say anything about new jobs、or else i'd lose my life. They might even need to erase the Anima server to hide the secret.

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I love it when he makes these kinds of answers.

The marketing team is scary.

I'm just gonna say hooray for Sigmascape being of equal difficulty. As someone who can't join a static, this is fantastic.

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Q. What happened to the male bunny outfit?
A. We are slowly working on it, but having it fit all races was harder than we expected.

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Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

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To be fair, they have to adapt the costumer for the male races, and then make them fit on each races skeleton. I imagine its a lot of work for male Roe :P

yeah but the announcment is like 2 years old? As you see i dont even need it but still, it sucks we dont rly get insight of these things...

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

You can't really blame people for jumping to Gordias difficulty, when raid difficulty is brought to the discussion table. It was Final Coil feedback from a minority of hardcore players that SE listened to, that resulted in the difficulty of Gordias.

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Hiya, Gordias' inflated DPS requirements were primarily down to SE's then flawed testing and balancing procedures rather than a deliberate design choice. Yes the goal was to make Savage content more challenging that coil had been in the past, but this was further compounded by mistakes within the dev team, thus leading to quite the double whammy we had with both A3S and A4S.

Yoshida confirmed later on that the testing team had been running the encounters phase by phase rather than as a whole, naturally this aligns and resets cooldowns, inflating DPS significantly. This is something they changed for Midas and it shows, massively.

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Originally Posted by Sebazy

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Not sure if you misread my post, or quoted the wrong post/person.

I wasn't talking about what made Gordias difficult, but why the difficulty of raids were heading in that direction. Yoshi also said they tried to make it more difficult after reading feedback about final coil, and raiders calling it too easy.

Probably a better discussion for another thread I think <3

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

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For me it just feels more like: "We dont really want to introduce this outfit for males ingame and thus we will just give such answers when you will ask us about this..hopefully someday you will forget that you ever wanted it" Its years since people wanted that and yet somehow they still are trying to fit it to other races? While they already talk about adding Alphinauds HW outfit to the cash shop? An outfit that probably needs quite some fitting for all races to look good. But hey they will get real money for that..seems to be a better incentive..

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Originally Posted by Alleo

For me it just feels more like: "We dont really want to introduce this outfit for males ingame and thus we will just give such answers when you will ask us about this..hopefully someday you will forget that you ever wanted it" Its years since people wanted that and yet somehow they still are trying to fit it to other races? While they already talk about adding Alphinauds HW outfit to the cash shop? An outfit that probably needs quite some fitting for all races to look good. But hey they will get real money for that..seems to be a better incentive..

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The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

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Originally Posted by Kuroka

Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

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Every time someone asks this question I wanna shoot myself in the foot.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

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Which really misses the point of why people were asking for it in the first place, and potentially makes you wonder why, if it's a different design, they still feel so uncomfortable designing it. Makes me hopeful it won't be a nun-suit in comparison to the female variation, but still worrisome.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

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That they've been promising since before Heavansward

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Which really misses the point of why people were asking for it in the first place, and potentially makes you wonder why, if it's a different design, they still feel so uncomfortable designing it. Makes me hopeful it won't be a nun-suit in comparison to the female variation, but still worrisome.

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They can't just copy paste the female version onto the male model. Sets designed for female characters generally don't work like that. I also don't remember them ever stating to feel uncomfortable designing it, but it likely isn't high on their priority list.

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Originally Posted by jameseoakes

That they've been promising since before Heavansward

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We don't know when they started working on the bunny suit, after they had first mentioned about there being plans to design it.

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Originally Posted by Nezerius

The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

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Yes which they had at least two years to do so I still dont see the argument. So one year creating it for males and one year fitting it on all races is not enough? Especially since we dont even now when we will finally get it. And if they even only started working on it recently...well thats even worse.