Request: Hempen Garb - Racial Unlock

[Vahlnir]

I see so many threads like this asking a simple question "Why not?" in regard to some specific minor change... and all I can think of is "But why tho?"

This is kinda how I see it, too. Do I care if they add this? Not really. I just think they should put or keep it on the backburner until they take care of more pressing issues.

[Oscura]

This is kinda how I see it, too. Do I care if they add this? Not really. I just think they should put or keep it on the backburner until they take care of more pressing issues.

People talk as if this exclusively requires them to take away from another issue, or that it has to be a "focus." Sometimes I forget that Square Enix is a small indie company working out of Yoshida's garage.

[Galaktica]

People talk as if this exclusively requires them to take away from another issue, or that it has to be a "focus." Sometimes I forget that Square Enix is a small indie company working out of Yoshida's garage.

It's precisely because they're not an indie company that they can't implement this change all willy nilly. They have budgets and development roadmaps planned out months and years in advance. They don't just walk into the office every morning and go "well, what should we do today? Huh, we need more artists? OPEN THE MONEY VAULTS ASAP!" Adding the hempen sets to every race would require what I can only assume is a handful of artists and 3d modelers and whoever else. If SE hasn't decided to work on this already, then yes, that literally means taking them off of and therefore detracting from more important stuff like new tome sets and other glamour items. They could outsource it, but again, there's a budget to keep in mind. It probably wouldn't be super expensive, but maybe they feel that money would be better spent elsewhere.

Again, I wanna stress the fact that I am in favor of this change. I also just want to stress the fact that this isn't as simple and clear cut as people make it out to be. It's obviously not as complicated as fixing the housing crisis for example, but it's still something that takes time and planning.

Someone is probably gonna get mad at me for trying to be reasonable again though. I don't know why I even bother tbh...

[Oscura]

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It's less that anyone is making this clear cut and more just that people want to see it happen, and that it is possible. I was simply addressing that it is not as if them deciding to work on this will ultimately take away from anything else. No one can prove that, so it is pointless to say. Even in their own excuse, they wanted only 1 dungeon for odd numbered patches for extra content like eureka, ultimate, stuff like bard songs, etc. We were supposed to get those this patch. Most were delayed. There was no equivalent exchange as people like to argue.