Gender Locking and Hats: This is a constraint issue

[Roda]

SE not being able to handle their scope isn't really much better than yoshi p literally saying male bunnies are weird.
It's just a different kind of bad.

[Jaywalker]

SE not being able to handle their scope isn't really much better than yoshi p literally saying male bunnies are weird.
It's just a different kind of bad.

I linked this previously, but idk I don't think it's about not being able to handle scope so much as company politics. And tbh I don't mind if Yoshi P thinks that male viera are weird as long as he doesn't allow his personal preferences on that front stand in the way of providing an option many fans want. That's just a question of professionalism and I don't see reason to doubt his at this stage. My understanding is that even if he thinks male viera are weird, he also doesn't like gender locking.

[Roda]

I linked this previously, but idk I don't think it's about not being able to handle scope so much as company politics. And tbh I don't mind if Yoshi P thinks that male viera are weird as long as he doesn't allow his personal preferences on that front stand in the way of providing an option many fans want. That's just a question of professionalism and I don't see reason to doubt his at this stage. My understanding is that even if he thinks male viera are weird, he also doesn't like gender locking.

I mean I've seen rumors saying it might've been ff12-man-i'm-bad-at-names who bound xiv to not having male viera, and he has since stated that it's not true. So I'm going off of what I've seen and what's been publicly said until someone gets officially thrown under the chocobus. Yoshi P has stated in interviews that he was considering genderlocking female viera and replacing the males with another genderlocked race because he thinks male viera are weird. As long as he keeps his opinions about his playerbase's tastes to himself it should be fine, but since exactly what he said he wanted to happen... happened, combined with his rather forced jokes at "lol we put pants on the male dancers, ur welcome" it really REALLY seems like some personal preferences have gotten in the way of finishing the Viera and Ronso races.

And not being able to finish your character race options because something internal is dragging you down is still technically something you should've accounted for when setting your deadlines and making promises.

It's a small indie company, please understand. /s


Seriously, though, it's also in their responsability to not bite off more than they can chew. I'd rather have a polished, complete xpac than one riddled with problems and weird choices, even if it meant waiting more time.
Yes, at the moment it's all cutting corners in cosmetic (which, honestly, are very important for people in MMOs. There's a good reason Mogstation makes that amount of money) but it's already not a very good indicative of what is to come. Imo, it's the small details that shows the directions they are taking.

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