Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

That would have been an argument had they not released an expansion with only dps jobs. You'd think they would have wanted to keep their tank and Healer playerbase happy considering their retention is crucial to keeping the game healthy given how dependant the game is on the trinity.

There also wasn't a new race added in stormblood either, guess they felt they didn't have to cater to the players there either.

They already have those players playing the game, they already won them over with existing races. It makes complete sense for them to try something to appeal to a wider market, they want to increase their player count and if they feel targeting a certain market that they haven't really grabbed is the best way to do it they will.

Okay, this is what gets me. If they wanted to add more players then why pick a 'lion' out of everything else, when ESO - their competitor who also has a big expansion happening around the same time as Shadow Bringers - is based in Elsywer which is the land of the Khajit race which is basically a less cartoony version of 'Ronso' minus the horns + a crapton of subraces which includes a 'Miqo'te' type breed?

Considering that Elsywer is going to be visited properly for the first time or rather not in horrifically outdated graphics -Elder Scrolls Arena; and it's bad 2004 graphics - why would you put a good portion of your eggs into one basket regarding it? How from a business standpoint does that make sense? A gender locked 'Hrothgar' isn't going to attract that market to such a huge extent when said market can literally be playing a different MMO that has more lore, background, isn't gender locked and doesn't require a sub?

From a business point of view that sounds extremely silly - already people are making jokes about Hrothgar due to the Elder Scrolls 'High Hrothgar' - such facepalming is to be had. Nothing like having a race that reminds you of your competitors 'games' during a battle for more subs.

And folks can't argue that Elder Scrolls doesn't have a presence in Japan, or that they're completely blind to the existence of its competitor in the western market.